Uploads from Garg-oil, tagged steam

I Wish I Was Going To Blackpool

nobody@flickr.com (Garg-oil) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:22:45 -0700

Garg-oil posted a photo:

16" x 12" oil/acrylic on canvas
Another from my series of nostalgic urban paintings. This one features a billboard poster, taken from an original British Rail poster advertising train trips to Blackpool. The actual original slogan for this poster was, "Gay And Bright, Day And Night". My, how things have changed!!

Two Little Ducks ( Finished )

nobody@flickr.com (Garg-oil) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:55:25 -0800

Garg-oil posted a photo:

16" x 12" oil on canvas. I'm pretty happy with the end result of this painting of two class 7f 0-8-0 Super Ds.(Ducks). I repainted the wheels and linkage on 49361 and rusted it up quite a bit because that is how I remember them when they were on shunting duties at Bescot near Walsall in the Black Country.

L.M.S. 46125 3rd.Carabinier

nobody@flickr.com (Garg-oil) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:36:50 -0800

Garg-oil posted a photo:

16" x 12" oil on canvas.

I painted this, my first attempt at a steam engine and train, from photographic records for the engine detail and distant childhood memory for the setting. I used to walk down to a bridge like this between Yew Tree Estate and Friar Park, just east of Bescot Marshalling Yards on the L.M.S. line between Walsall and Birmingham. In the early to mid 1960s. there was still plenty of steam about and when you've grown up with the sight, sound and smell of these snorting, fire breathing monsters, it stays with you for life. This express, hauled by Royal Scot class 4-6-0 number 46125, 3rd. Carabinier, would have been, in the language of us Black Country kids at the time, "Double pegged on the Brummie".
Happy days!!!