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    Or should you choose to accept it... https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c7/70/47/c77047a20885d7e0cead78d78abedb7b.jpg Cheers David
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    The quad Cs have done a few more runs this week. Cheers David
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    Queensland Rail's new 700 series, unit 701 on its first (low speed) main line test run under its own power yesterday. Jump forward to about 2 min in since it's going so slowly. Cheers David
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    On a similar note, a couple of kitbashed rail motors on the Dutton Bay Tramway. Roundhouse Overton combine with scratchbuilt cabs. http://members.optushome.com.au/duttonbay/97rm.html Roco Mariazeller passenger/baggage car with Airfix cabs. http://members.optushome.com.au/duttonbay/96rm.html Cheers David
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    If you wanted to backdate the layout, something like the Bachmann 1860-1880 Combine or Mantua Classics 1890 Combine could make a nice half pint Doodlebug-like car. Cheers David
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    That's actually a myth. The average age of entry into military service in the Vietnam era was 19 but the average age on the battlefield was 22. The average age of American KIAs was 22.8. Cheers David
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    And while there were no doubt some 18 year olds storming the beaches on D-Day, the average age of a Private was 26. (As a matter of interest, it was 24 for the Germans and 29 for the Australians.) Cheers David
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    Kim Jong-un claims North Korea ‘has dihydrogen monoxide bomb' http://newsthump.com/2015/12/10/kim-jong-un-claims-north-korea-has-hydrogen-oxide-bomb/
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    ScotRail won't be storing anything. I'm sure there will be a couple of spares kept at Haymarket(?) but only just enough to cover failures. They will lease whatever they need from the ROSCO. If they want to increase to 2+6 they will simply lease more coaches. It's up to whoever owns them to store them. Remembering of course they will be refurbished before going north of the border, including getting power doors, so there would be a bit of a lead time to leasing more. Cheers David
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    I think that would in turn depend on 25kV "Electric Spine" getting to Southampton as proposed a few years ago but delayed until after 2019. Cheers David
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    The C class is still hanging on. Turn this up LOUD! Cheers David
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    The diagrams I've seen show 226 seats. 60 in each DMOS, 62 in the MOSL and 44 + 2 wheelchair spaces in the PTOSL. Cheers David
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    Curiously they are running as 2Sxx. Cheers David
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    Great Western goes electric http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/great-western-goes-electric.html
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    I had thought about conversion to AC, but why would anybody go to that expense when there will be 317s surplus soon? I know they are older but no conversion is required. Although Angel Trains seems prepared to spend money on them (e.g. AC traction motors). Cheers David
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    If it was possible to work them push-pull with a locomotive, surely a better proposition would be to wire them for Blue Star/AAR/whatever the new CAF stock is getting, removing the slidey rail/traction equipment and actually use them in revenue service elsewhere in the country. Cheers David
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    Didn't the 387s break the 108mph record? DfT actually offered the 442 as part of the TransPennine franchise with the idea they could be converted to LHCS with cabs but First didn't want them. Unless an overseas buyer could be found for at least some of them (New Zealand?) then it's probably scrap. Cheers David
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    I mentioned that a few pages back. All those dirty diesels when the prevailing "wisdom" at the time was P4 had to be pre-grouping with immaculate locomotives. Cheers David
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    Indiana Jones and the Letter of Protest from the Egyptian Antiquities Minister.
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    Reblogged on tumblr so many times I don't know where the original is. Realistic Indiana Jones movies Indiana Jones and the Tomb That Had Already Been Looted in the 19th Century Indiana Jones and Pottery Fragment #1478 Indiana Jones and the Site Under Somebody's House So There Was No Way To Excavate It Indiana Jones and the Thing That Turned Out To Be A Low Status Cooking Pot Indiana Jones and the Temple of Three Damaged Columns And Some Demolition Rubble Indiana Jones and the Just Got A Pass For Intro To Archaeology
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