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"Weebles wobble but they don't fall down." Discuss.

I suspect that has to do with the way that, in New England, popular Protestantism developed from its Puritan origins.

For @Annie's benefit, I should perhaps mention that I used Arial Black as my starting point but have "converted to curves" in CorelDraw and tweaked the proportions to get horizontals the same width as verticals along with various other refinements.

Hopping about as usual: revisiting the Monk Bretton Colliery wagons. I've had some correspondence with Ian Pope of Lightmoor Press, in the course of which these wagons came up. He has a copy of the colliery photo, with a little bit more on the left. This confirms the word "NEAR" plus, from a wagon in the background, it's possible to guess that the rest of that line is "Co Ltd". So here's my take on the basic dimensions of the wagon and layout of the lettering, assuming 15 ft over headstocks and 9 ft wheelbase: Many details missing of course, including the scotch brake.

Surely Edgar Allan Poe is the locus classicus for American Gothic?

Pedantry: allow for the thickness of the piers! Ribblehead is to standard S&C dimensions so ordinary piers are 6 ft at the springing and strengthening 24 ft, so a 6-arch section is 324 ft.

At this point I have to point out that the simplified carriage livery had only been around for two and a half years (assuming you're modelling summer 1937) so with a seven-year carriage repainting cycle, two-thirds of your carriages should be in the fully lined livery.

Crossed wires. The word they were looking for was "panniers".

Harringworth Viaduct, the longest in Britain, was built in the late 1870s , by which time standards for railway structures had settled down. It has refuges above every third pier, every ninth being a thicker strengthening pier. Ribblehead, built only a few years earlier, has them above every sixth pier, those being the strengthening piers. The period you are modelling is irrelevant. What matters is the date at which your viaducts were built; i.e. what's your backstory?

Going to the Historic England website, one can access a higher-resolution version of the Cannon Brewery photo. I'm not clever enough to embed it here but much more detail of the early covered goods wagons can be seen. Annoyingly, carts and people block any view of solebar numberplates - the only indication of company identity on Midland wagons at this date. Frustratingly, the number of the Kirtley brake isn't quite decipherable. I like the information that the brewery is at the bottom of the garden of the brewer's rather grand house - hence the tennis court - so this is a 12 in/ft scale garden railway!

It is. The familiar Midland van with a verandah at one end was introduced in 1877 with a batch of 100; by the early 1880s there were 225 in service so there were still plenty of Kirtley brake vans in service. The question is, how many? The highest number seen on a Kirtley brake van is M.893 so I suspect around 900, including ballast brakes. But that number was down to about 130 by the end of 1894. I really must finish my pair, from the Mousa Models kit: They'd certainly all gone by 1902, so this is a bit of an indulgence.

Johnson's Great Eastern 0-4-4Ts were the very first side tank 0-4-4Ts to be built and the 6 Class engines his first Midland 0-4-4Ts, coming out in 1875. So only 2-3 years between them.

"Paint Committee" - the GWR management structure was clearly different. I'd assume that paint for structures would be the province of the Engineer's Department and for rolling stock, the Carriage & Wagon Department.

The "like" button isn't big enough! The left-most of the three is a D353 covered goods wagon, the first 50 ordered in 1880 but no more until 210 ordered in 1884, after which there was a batch a year until 1891. The doorway is 5'0" high. But it's the two wagons on the right that are an amazing find: pre-1877 covered goods wagons. I'm pretty sure they must me Midland; I don't think any of the Southern companies having anything matching this. The double X framing on the ends is seen in several early wagons that are presumed to be Midland: Essery, Midland Wagons Vol. 1 Plates 31 and 39; the doors are like Plates 37 and 38 - but a common design - however the wagons in those photos don't have the X-framing on the sides. These two wagons have roof doors on the far side - the raised frame can be made out. Any higher resolution? The whole train is the length of a tennis court. The Midland's West Kensington coal yard, opened 25 March 1878, is to the left, per the 1893/4 OS 25" map.

Essery, Midland Wagons, has one photo of this type of van in LMS bauxite - 8 ton No. 90766. As it was photographed within three months of painting, the paint date can be read: 30.1.39.

Only if they're successfully impersonating you with DWP.

The moral for @josephmarsh has to be: spend some time practising on something simpler and lest critical to build up his skills, then return to the Judith Edge kit with more confidence! The person who never made a pig's ear of a kit never made anything. Who knows? He could end out churning out Peppercorn pacifics at £2,000 a pop.

Presumably the beer is on the outside of the Escape Rooms, otherwise there'd be no incentive? Why, if ’tis dancing you would be, There’s brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Canto LXII.

I'm happy with that, I do my modelling sitting up! My focus here is on replicating Burton beer barrels (maybe also other sizes of cask) as seen in photos of Midland wagons - standing on end. As I've pointed out to @Guy Rixon, because the Slaters D299 and D305 end up with the floor about 0.8 mm too high, my ideal barrels will have that much missing off one end! The fudge would go unnoticed in the intercaskular gloom.

I'm sure you've achieved the happy middle ground of open-minded nit-picking. It has to be remembered that nit-picking is the foundation of social interaction among the higher primates.

That would make these casks 2'6" tall which is, I think, midway between a Burton barrel and a Burton kilderkin.

If you're into lightweight detective fiction, try The Body on the Train by Frances Brody. It would be a spoiler to say whose the body was but the train is the up rhubarb special, arrived at Kings Cross in the early hours of Saturday 2 March 1929. I assume Brody has done some research, the train is said to start from Leeds Central, with a stop at Ardsley (where the body is presumed to have been put on board). The train ran nightly during the season, from Christmas to Easter. The rhubarb was packed in "nice light boxes". Later on in the book there's a description of the rhubarb forcing sheds.

... and the slope of enlightenment and plateau of productivity?

This rather nice Lledo die-cast steam lorry was, I think, given to one of the boys as a toy about fifteen years ago: Not knowing much about either diecast vehicles of full-size steam lorries, I assume the scale is 1:72. The casks, which are a plastic moulding with pegs on the underside that locate in the holes in the lorry's floor, are 12 mm high by 9.5 mm waist diameter; a bit over-size for Burton barrels, though they could pass for tierces. The more I look at them, I don't think they're quite bulgy enough.

The reference you quote is a book on structure colours. Does it specifically state that the same applied to paint used in the Carriage & Wagon paint shop?