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    Grantham - the Streamliner years

    in Layout topics

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    My wife and I enjoyed a trip on the RM combined with an Alaskan cruise in 2011 but were a bit unlucky.  The RM catering crew were locked out by their management in an attempt to reduce their salaries.  Office staff were drafted in to replace them and did their best but...

     

    On the second day we found out there had been a derailment.  In Canada, freight is king and I think there were 18 freight trains with priority over the RM when the line was cleared.  Being a tour, there was a schedule to be kept , so we finished up being bussed through what should have been the most scenic part of the railway journey. 

     

    Hope you do better if you get to  ride! 

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    East Barnet Joint Stock - a workbench

    in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding

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    Train-Tech, probably a bit OTT but it seemed a good idea at the time.

     

    Can't remember who the red/white side lights came from, they were the last two in stock.  I believe that DCC Concepts have made such lamps but they also are out of stock.

     

    I'm surprised the RTR guys haven't produced models with working lights, especially with the availability of DCC control.  I still own a Trix brake van made 65 years ago with working lights, powered by their then-standard pick-up shoes.  Flicker guaranteed!

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    East Barnet Joint Stock - a workbench

    in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding

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    It's taken me 30 years to assemble my Slaters brake van because of the perceived need to solder the handrails!  However, I have recently assembled white metal kits of GC and GN brake vans and found I could use superglue where there are joints instead of soldering, so I have adopted the same approach for the NE van.  The long horizontal runs were supported  in handrail knobs at their midpoints.

     

    It's still not finished, though, as I decided to fit working lights (including the white/red side lamps), and I'm struggling to stop light bleed under the roof whilst still making it removable.

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    Wright writes.....

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

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    13 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

    Alan Rose and Martin Kirkby brought over one of their 3D-printed Barnums in varnished teak for me to photograph today. 

     

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    An impressive model, complete with the elaborate grab rails. 

     

    That really looks good. 

     

    I have two of these kits in the dining room table queue but I fear mine won't look this good!  I have previously followed the Mike Trice teaking method but am not sure about this on the matchboarding.  The handrails are very characteristic - please could we know how they were modelled?

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    The Forum Jokes Thread

    in Wheeltappers

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    I recently spent £16,500 on a registered Black Angus bull.

     

    I put him out with the herd but he just ate grass and wouldn't even look at a cow.  I was beginning to think I had paid more for that bull than he was worth.

     

    Anyway......I had the Vet come and take a look at him.  He said,, the bull was very healthy, but possibly just a little young, so he gave me some pills to feed him once per day.

     

    The bull started to service the cows within two days……. all my cows!  He even broke through the fence and bred with all of my neighbour's cows! He's like a machine!

     

    I don't know what was in the pills the Vet gave him ...... but they taste like peppermint.

     

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    Football Focus

    in Wheeltappers

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    Whilst defeats in late rounds in previous years can arguably be ascribed to team selection/tactics, I don't think Guardiola can be criticised for last night, though we do suffer from the lack of a left full-back and a striker.

     

    When I watched City regularly in the days of Allison and Mercer, there was a phrase "typical City".  Some things never change!

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    The Forum Jokes Thread

    in Wheeltappers

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    A young girl started work in the village chemist shop.. She was very shy about having to sell condoms to the public. The owner was going on holiday for a couple of days and asked if she would be willing to run the shop on her own. She had to confide in him her worries about selling the contraceptives.

     

    "Look," he said. "My regular customers don't ask for condoms, they'll ask for a 310 [small] a 320[medium] or a 330[large]. The word condom wont even be used.

     

    The first day was fine but on the second day a guy came in to the shop, put out his hand and said "350 please".

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    The girl panicked. She phoned the owner on his mobile and told him of her predicament.

     

    " Go back in and check if he has a yellow bucket hanging between his legs" her boss told her.

    She peeped through the door and saw the yellow bucket hanging between his legs. "Yes "!!!! she said " He's got one hanging there"....!

     

    The boss said "Go back in and give him £3.50....he's the Window cleaner"!!!!!!!

     

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    Wright writes.....

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

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    2 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

    Of possible interest..............

     

    There is moving footage of Hornby's latest A1 in operation on LB contained in BRM's WOR site. 

     

     

     

     

     

    It certainly  looks good on your Pullmans.  With  the cast footplate, how did the haulage capacity compare with a kit-built A3?

    Imaginary Locomotives

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

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    I would suggest that a closer comparison to the Riddles 2-8-2 existed in the Gresley P1, surely a locomotive ahead of it's time. 

     

    Only 2 were built, possibly because of the availability of cheap ex ROD 2-8-0s, which were bought by the LNER in large numbers.  Had the latter not been available, it is likely that more P1s would have been built, and track improvements such as longer loops and refuges carried out on the ECML to accommodate on a routine basis the longer goods trains of which the P1 was capable.  In trials on passenger trains before the P2s were built, the P1 ran at speeds up to 65 mph successfully, so I see no reason why they should not have handled passenger trains in addition to goods trains such as the Windcutters of the GC route. 

     

    Instead, as a small non-standard class embodying the conjugated valve gear, they were scrapped during WW2 by Thompson and it was the Riddles 9F that gave finally gave us a taste of what a Pacific-sized freight locomotive could accomplish.

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    SE&CR 5 and 7 plank open wagons.

    in Rapido Trains

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    It's good to see accurate models of steam-age wagons and I am very impressed with the standard of modelling achieved, also the free-running qualities.  I too feel that some degree of weathering is required to tone down the SR brown livery, and would suggest the factory blackening of wheel sets in future.

     

    Plse can I request some prototypes from north of the Thames and/or RCH designs for future models?

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    Hatfield : Part the Second

    in Layout topics

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    I have only just found this thread but am impressed with the layout to date and interested to see how it develops.  I worked at the north end of the airfield in the early 70's and, more recently, in Hertford.

     

    If you are still interested in published material, I can recommend "Great Northern Branches Hatfield to Hertford" by Peter Paye, published by the Lightmoor Press, ISBN 9781 911038 89 4.

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