RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted July 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2020 I don't know about all these modern digital gubbins, I trained on 5"x4" / 10"x8" plate cameras. I decided after 3 days of photographing a (rather beautiful) desk, that working in commercial studio photography was not for me. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted July 5, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) 8701 pulling new wagon for the first time.... No ghosting whatsoever to the telegraph pole (normal culprit) but there is one thing that grates..... I am now the proud owner of GWR Goods Wagons by Atkins, Beard and Tourret, second hand but in excellent condition, so checking on the Meat Van - Micas section it answered a question I had, how where those four hatches held in place when in transit - I now have the answer so Mica B has moved back into the workshop to have some catches fitted along with vacuum pipes (not in kit). Edited March 25 by KNP 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tim Dubya said: I don't know about all these modern digital gubbins, I trained on 5"x4" / 10"x8" plate cameras. I decided after 3 days of photographing a (rather beautiful) desk, that working in commercial studio photography was not for me. In the dim and distant past, I had (briefly) a girl-friend who's parents had a Photo-finishing business .... processing hundreds of roll-films every day. I have never seen a more boring job! Quite put me off trying photo processing at home, although taking, processing and examining X-Ray and Gamma-ray Film became a neccessity at work. (not Medical I emphasise) Edited July 5, 2020 by DonB 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted July 5, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 Mica B back out the workshop with retaining bars and vacuum pipes fitted. 22 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted July 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2020 You got the hatches battened down just in time for this windy weather. I’m inspired to dig mine out of the too difficult box! 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Dammit, you've inspired me to finish building the Cambrian models GWR crane and match truck that is cluttering up the bodging bench! 1 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted July 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2020 1 minute ago, MrWolf said: Dammit, you've inspired me to finish building the Cambrian models GWR crane and match truck that is cluttering up the bodging bench! One of the first kits I built upon returning (is that a Wire song?) to the hobby 15 odd years ago. A nice easy build I seem to remember. Enjoy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 It's also one of the first that I have built since my recent return. I cheated and sorted out the jib first. The rest is easy once you get your head round the instructions. If you're reading this Mr. Cambrian, I will happily draw you easy to follow 1970s Airfix style exploded drawings for your kits. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
autocoach Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Are the hatches for ice or were they vents? If ice did they have ice docks to load them. (Professional note, back in the early 1970's I worked for 3 years in the accounting office for Pacific Fruit Express (owned by SP and UP) which had 40,000 ice cars-30-50 ton load capacity- at one time. Reefer blocks of up to 100 ice cars at a time going east from California to mid-west an east coast markets with fresh vegetables fruit and other produce. I did some of the accounting calculations of residual values of the remaining ice cars as we ended ice service and wrote them off.) 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2020 52 minutes ago, autocoach said: I did some of the accounting calculations of residual values of the remaining ice cars as we ended ice service and wrote them off. Were they frozen assets? 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 The hatches were for Dry ice. I’m not aware of ice houses & gantries in the US style, and I’m a bit young to recall despite being a Birkenhead boy. https://www.svrwiki.com/GWR_105873_'Mica_B'_Refrigerated_Meat_Van atb Simon 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted July 6, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 6, 2020 (edited) The well illuminated 8701 entering Encombe Town station... Edited March 25 by KNP 27 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Thank you Kevin, for my daily fix of peace, tranquillity, and all that was once right with the world, that we don't recognise today. A time gone by, when you could hear Birds singing in the morning, the sometimes distant sound of a By Plane, or even a neighbour pushing his Lawnmower. Keep the pics of our History coming please. 6 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ray H Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Andrew P said: Thank you Kevin, for my daily fix of peace, tranquillity, and all that was once right with the world, that we don't recognise today. A time gone by, when you could hear Birds singing in the morning, the sometimes distant sound of a By Plane, or even a neighbour pushing his Lawnmower. Keep the pics of our History coming please. And then a certain Mr. A.... P....... moved into the neighbourhood with his sound fitted trains and guitars 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Can anyone tell me if the front of the tanks on all panniers that have their tanks level with the smokebox door were painted black? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2020 35 minutes ago, Ray H said: And then a certain Mr. A.... P....... moved into the neighbourhood with his sound fitted trains and guitars A sound fitted guitar? That's novel. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 9 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said: A sound fitted guitar? That's novel. For those that can't actually play? 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2020 54 minutes ago, Andrew P said: Thank you Kevin, for my daily fix of peace, tranquillity, and all that was once right with the world, that we don't recognise today. I'll have a pint of whatever he's drinking please. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold pirouets Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2020 11 minutes ago, checkrail said: Thank you Kevin, for my daily fix of peace, tranquillity, and all that was once right with the world, that we don't recognise today. Isn't this because he has moved down south to Pompey now from the peace of Middle England? Not sure a Pannier with those wagons would have been that quiet either but the picture does make me wonder just what the world is like further down the main line. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted July 6, 2020 Author Share Posted July 6, 2020 Perhaps that is what is that crate!!!! An experimental sound fitted guitar....... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2020 10 minutes ago, KNP said: Perhaps that is what is that crate!!!! An experimental sound fitted guitar....... WITH AMPLIFIER. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2020 Just now, Mick Bonwick said: WITH AMPLIFIER. "Who won the F1 Drivers' Championship in 1975?" "Lauda." "WHO WON THE F1 DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1975?" 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2020 18 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: "Who won the F1 Drivers' Championship in 1975?" "Lauda." "WHO WON THE F1 DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1975?" The old ones are the best! Paul. 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 4 hours ago, MrWolf said: Can anyone tell me if the front of the tanks on all panniers that have their tanks level with the smokebox door were painted black? I believe so. But "all" is a big word. Indeed, we take the papa-one-five-five out of one of our pals on a weekly basis on just this subject... There are a lot of bits that might, or might not be black on an otherwise green loco. Firebox tops on Belpaire boilers, all horizontal surfaces on locos and tenders (but perhaps not the tops of panniers...) and the slopy bits on Prairie tanks. atb Simon 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Basically, don't worry about it too much then. I just think that the panniers look better with a black 'face'. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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