Price: Atlas £30, Vancouver £35
Inspired by the proposals made by Percy Spooner to nascent railway projects in Wales, the Atlas and Vancouver models are two freelance models derived from Kelso and Venus and inspired by two very different sources.
The Atlas is inspired by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Mid-Sodor railway layout which featured a modified Jouef Decauville as the Harwin Mining company’s shunter, The Jouef model was anglicised with a replacement chimney and had its cab roof removed. The Atlas is intended to be a plausible design for an 1880s locomotive that may have been supplied to the mining company in place of the Decauville machine, it is a modification based off of Kelso featuring a slimmed back weatherboard to just support the pressure gauge and a full running board.
The Vancouver is a design derived off the Venus proposal for the Penrhyn Railroad and is inspired by the earliest locomotives supplied to Western Canada, some of those early locomotives in were Manning Wardle saddle tanks which were owned by different mining companies around the region with several working around Nanaimo harbour on Vancouver Island. Taking design influence from those Manning Wardle saddle tanks the Vancouver represents a locomotive adapted by its operators to the region it works in with wide rough timber buffer beams and shunting steps, spark arresting chimney and a large box kerosene headlamp.
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