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I have a bit of a daft question, and this thread seems like a likely place to put it... ""Before leaving on the Franklin expedition, both Erebus and Terror underwent heavy modifications for the journey.[3] They were both outfitted with steam engines, taken from former London and Greenwich Railway steam locomotives"" Would that not make the machinery somewhat of interest from a historical railway prospective? I know that there is fairly extensive ROV footage of Terror in particular, is there any of the engine? (I just took a brief internet look, and it appears not...)

Remember that you have to get your fat fingers (or some assembly jig) into place to put it together- and what can be done in 12"/ft may not be possible in 1"/ft. More than once, we've been burned by that. Or just simply drawing errors...of course, with homemade engines, it's easy to blame the draftsman, but hard to find the envelope with the uncorrected drawing on it. (or weetabix box...) I remain in awe of what you and CF (Tim) are and have done with live steam engines. They are not what I'm doing, but the art that you are putting into the technical makes it well worth looking at. James

Andi, perhaps you can post a photo of the 83 FB side by side of the 75 BH ? I noticed that the 75 BH was absent ^, but I don't have any 83 FB.

Into running, with a hop, Change !

I'm very fortunate, I have the basement, and my wife has a barn. We had a mini horse, who unfortunately died ~8 years ago. We haven't gotten another horse, but that's because we have two monkeys instead (two children, 11 and 16 years old, both ASD, and both...lots of entertaining !) She's fairly supportive of my hobbies...and only threatens to murder me about once a week

Next thing you know, you'll be free falling. (and in Kingston, everything's legal as long as you don't get caught) (HS)

Lots of coverage on todays OK the PK about the various sought remedies. There's been good coverage from OK the PK on this over the last week- Slim does a good job of picking up the leads and following them out.

About 50 lbf, would be my educated guess- if anything, a bit less than that, but that depends on the weight on the trucks. Generally, models run out of grip before they run out of ummph to move. (or at least that's most of my experience on 3.5" gauge). Tmin=Pc*C^2* 0.785398 * S * D (For a _2_ cylindered engine...) Where Tmin= Minimum TE in cycle Pc= Cylinder Pressure (generally use .85 boiler pressure) C= cylinder bore 0.785398 (is a conversion factor) S= Stroke D= Diameter of wheels So, 76.5*1.66*2.16/6.6 =40.9 lbf (if 2 cylinders) So, sanity check says somewhere around 1/4th the weight on the drivers should sound about right. I can say that the math I did for the 5" I have to put together is a lot more than that...on a 0-4-0 0-4-0 (it's also a clearly inferior product, as Pete's loco is _astounding_ in its details). https://www.jghtech.com/assets/applets/LFLSRM-Tractive-Force-Article-current.pdf

Getting drunk (like blind, falling over drunk) on Tequila ? That _might_ be improved by not having cheese... 1 Tequila, 2 Tequila, 3 Tequila, floor... or perhaps after a snort of "Factory Whistle" or "Autumn Leaf" moonshine ? "Factory Whistle- one toot, and you're done for the day..." "Autumn Leaf- Take a snort, change colour and fall to the ground..." James

Think of the direction of forces- if the tank is moving sideways with enough delta to need chains, then the train is probably derailed... They'd have at least 1/4 G resisting any sideways forces.

There's more than one- though less than there used to be... Crofton, Harmac on the big island, Port Mellon in Howe Sound, Powell River are still barge served. Port Alice & Gold River are both former sites. (Crofton : https://www.google.com/maps/place/Port+Mellon,+BC/@48.8740868,-123.6431969,217m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x548646f4bd5c45d9:0x2ced208c5d646c7b!8m2!3d49.5217479!4d-123.4880589!5m1!1e4 with a barge )

Also the barge for the island (and the isolated pulp mills) docks there.

There are 10 rolls of TMY sitting at home for my trip in March- I'm sure my sister will bring her DSLR, but this way I can have some fun with a real camera.

#@$@#$ Scotch Broom. Why, oh WHY ! did Captain Grant have to like the @#$@#$ stuff ? https://www.coastalisc.com/scotch-broom/ (All the Scotch Broom in BC can be traced by DNA to 3 plants...)

Because it mostly consisted of Von Braun learning to count backwards to 0 in Chinese ? It is one hell of an engineering accomplishment, built on the backs of lots of American scientists, but they don't have a Tesla or a Edison, or a Openheimer ...so the story gets into "boring" quickly...and focuses on John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin & Neil Armstrong. I think the failure to appreciate what Apollo could have been is a horrible loss for US science- be it the canceled 3 landings, the post lunar flights that were planned, Skylab... While the problems on earth can't be solved by Apollo, some solutions could have been found... (Andy Y, I hope I have used enough satire for this not to count as political...) James

Birds? Someone said Birds? (HAVE you ever danced with the devil?)

Similar to Ian, I have a great job...at least when the government decides to PAY me ! So no, I'm not moving on to greener pastures, even though my pay this year has been far worse than the previous 2 years.

While a 14xx is big and powerful, it's not disproportionately so- a big roller is >16 tons, on road, vs 41 tons (~30 tons on the drivers). Since TE for a road engine can be as high as weight, in a tug of war situation, I wouldn't want to bet which one goes which way. Rollers are slipperier than RL's, at least in the 50's before the comparatively modern practice of putting rubber shoes on them (*), but as to who wins, I think it might be a bit closer than you'd think. The headstock on the roller will loose, but I suspect the best line to describe such an event is: War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left. It's not like a Roller vs Mini, or 14xx vs Car, in which case there is going to be one looser only. James (*) I am aware of the roller on Lancaster wheels, and I think there was a Sentinel engined one pre-war, but it's far more a last 20 years thing to put rubber on roller wheels)

The seamen of the MN get a lot of my respect: That's "Pop" (Harold) Collin's Certificate of Continuous Discharge. My Great Grandfather. Yes, SS Magellan was torpedo'd, and sunk. He rowed 83 NM to shore...and that was only 1 of the little adventures he had in the 1st go around. It makes MY "wartime" service look like a @#$@#$ joke. PO2 James Powell, SWACM, CD RCN (Retired)

So, one aspect that I have done is to put the trees onto pins in the landscape, rather than planting them with roots. One aspect of this is that you can kind of "bed" them into the grass if they are semi permanent, but if you ever need to remove them to move the layout around, it is possible and all one is left with is a series of pins in the landscape, and a bunch of trees to store somewhere... It's a really quiet job to glue tufts onto the branches- it takes for ever to do. Kind of like welding ties on the Canadian Puget Sound (which is what I'm doing this winter...section #7 of the curves is tacked right now down below) James

I'd suggest taking a look at Physicsman's thread, because it goes into quite some depth about building a viaduct (and walls...) out of DAS over plywood. (please ignore the image presented ^, no-one seems to know where it came from, not even Andy Y !)

Up to 21 lb of filler wire used so far. I have to change over the roll on the MIG, and carry on with the next piece

Have we exhausted this line of jokes yet? Or are there a few simple ones yet to be found ? Further Expansion on the issue might result in us spinning like a turbine. I may have to reheat my cup of tea before this is over... Stay tuned next week, when we go to Vauclain (not Vulcan) for expanded answers to all your questions on SCC, DCC (not Digital Command Control either), Uniflow, 241P's, and other magnificent machines ! James

It's all OK- We are aware of the intermittent site speed issues at the moment. Please be patient and don't repeatedly click things as that compounds the issue. (as the current site header is...) James

You should have tried an Armstrong-Whitworth ! Dad, I think, is still in love with Big Johnny, the Fowler that LJB had. (FF 4912). Not as much as HIS tractor though, 7529