Lead Poisoning

 Don't worry, I haven't contracted lead poisoning due to excessive consumption of Arlesdale ballast. But that does lead nicely into the topic of this post.

As my priorities currently lie with 'Cas-Ny-Hawin' the lead traffic, more specifically rolling stock for transporting crushed lead ore, is being looked at. Thus far I have built two open wagons based off of VoR prototypes formerly from the Plynlimon & Hafan tramway, the prototypes were used for transporting lead so are appropriate for the traffic being depicted. I can't decide whether I want them to be PO wagons owned by the mining company, or MSR owned wagons though, I'm currently leaning towards MC wagons but if I go with MSR wagons I'll likely give them 'LEAD' branding as I imagine the MSR wouldn't be too pleased with lead contamination of other goods. 

Oh and the baldwin I'll be using to depict no.2 arrived last week. So far I've only removed the numbers, but I'll be doing more to it once I have a more clear concept in mind.

I've also worked on Falcon a bit more but nothing major for now, can't exactly work on it until the chassis shows up and I'm putting off building the cab.




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