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Due to actions by the RMWeb team, who decided to support the toxicity of @woodenhead and "punish" me by deleting all the images I've uploaded, this content has been redacted.


Due to actions by the RMWeb team, who decided to support the toxicity of @woodenhead and "punish" me by deleting all the images I've uploaded, this content has been redacted.

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Due to actions by the RMWeb team, who decided to support the toxicity of @woodenhead and "punish" me by deleting all the images I've uploaded, this content has been redacted.

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I think this problem affects all aspects of modelling that with which we are not familiar, certainly industrial subjects. We model what we see, or what we think we see, or even what we would like to think we can see, often with only a basic understanding of what 'it' is nevermind how it works or even why it's there. 

 

The example given of signals plonked in random positions is a good one, it winds me up too but I'm an ex-signalman. But the station car park on the same layout will be fine because everyone knows how car parks work even if they don't drive. 

 

Collieries, distilleries and dairies suffer the same problem. At one time it seemed like every Scottish layout had a white painted distillery in the corner where a quaint 0-4-0 (usually of a type never seen in the highlands) shuttled a couple of grain hoppers and some opens full of casks about. There were small distilleries, it's true, and some if them are very pretty. But most distillery traffic was coal in / empties out. 

 

This was Dewars in Perth - lots of rail traffic in evidence but not very pretty. Or quaint: https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1246412

 

And here's a quaint scene at Balmenach on Speyside. I bet nobody models the buildings on the right as derelict (which they were by this date) or the 7 story corrugated asbestos granary in the background !

https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/29/344/

 

Threads like this and the several now running on milk trains and dairies go a long way to addressing this :-)

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I have been working on a plan for a small layout of Carbean Wharf does anyone know of any photos?

 

Marc

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21 hours ago, MarcD said:

I have been working on a plan for a small layout of Carbean Wharf does anyone know of any photos?

 

Marc

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Yes. I'll PM you.

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That would be great if you could. I drove  past the site last week without knowing it was there, not that I could have done anything about as 2 out of 3 Bosses were in the car with me.

 

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On 03/08/2021 at 03:01, MarcD said:

I have been working on a plan for a small layout of Carbean Wharf does anyone know of any photos?

 

Marc


This is the only shot I have of the wharf itself.

carbean1961.png

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That's great. That brings the total number of photos to 5 which is 4 more than I had yesterday. I've been mesuring the map and to exact scale it's 8ft3 by 2ft which fits into the space I have.

The map shows either two RH points but looking at the photos it could be a RH tandem.

 

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6 hours ago, MarcD said:

quick question is Bernard Mills book worth getting?

 

Marc

Yes. Lots of colour pictures.

 

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