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  1. Might have been mentioned before, but if you've ever wanted to model a prototypical yet eclectic railway system, Liberia has you covered. LAMCO alone operated vehicles built in/for the US, Britain, Germany, and Sweden for a wide range of loading gauges: Images borrowed from here: https://www.derbysulzers.com/liberia.html and https://www.derbysulzers.com/liberia2.html And these are just the ones I've found pictures of online. There were apparently quite a few other types from Sweden, and there appears to have been ALCo RS locomotives there at least during construction. Parts of the old LAMCO network seems to nowadays be operated by second hand Köf's (with some very nice home-built coaches), second hand Romanian diesels, and new-build GE ES44AC locos.
  2. Severe weather? Okay? Not quite sure how milk tanks would be of any use in those circumstances. Could it be because delivery by truck would be too risky...?
  3. I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I've got to ask, otherwise I'll be scratching my head for all eternity. Milk tanks built for emergencies. Wh... What type of emergencies are we talking about?
  4. I was a bit confused by what you meant with Berne rectangle, a phrase I don't think I've ever heard before, but I did manage to find a little bit of information on it. Are you saying the gangway... Bridge plate? Footplate? The bit you step on, is fixed in place and can't be folded up? That does seem a bit hazardous.
  5. Didn't even notice that at first. Thanks for the link! Never thought about that, are you telling me British screw couplings are different to others? Huh.
  6. Shame to hear it was scrapped, would've made for an interesting museum exhibit. But, being built to continental gauge, how did it move around the country? Or did it simply stay stationary until it went to the GCR(N)?
  7. While I am aware of the BREL International set being sold to Irish Rail after a few years in storage, I just stumbled across one coach which I've never seen before: The text on Flickr doesn't offer much information, only stating that this was the one and only coach of the set built to UIC 505 profile. Does anyone know what happened to this coach? Or simply have more info on it?
  8. They brought the beaver back in 1997. https://www.cpr.ca/en/the-cp-logo
  9. Aren't the EFE bodies plastic though? They sure feel like they are.
  10. Feels like I can finally contribute to this thread. Take a look at this clip, 8 minutes in. Now, I can't recall seeing a DMU formation quite like this anywhere previously in the thread.
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