KRModels announce a GT3 Model

[wainwright1]

Don't forget that 08 shunters had a hotplate in the cab to warm up the crews lunches !

Did GT3 have one ?

 

All the best

Ray

[boxbrownie]

48 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

Is there a deadman's pedal next to the toilet, how do you take a number two without having the train stop itself?

 

It must have been difficult, you know how it is, you are reading a paper/book and you find yourself engrossed, next thing an hour has passed.

When those engines were designed it was a two manned job.

[boxbrownie]

7 minutes ago, wainwright1 said:

Don't forget that 08 shunters had a hotplate in the cab to warm up the crews lunches !

Did GT3 have one ?

 

All the best

Ray

All the older diesels had hot plates......ASLEF wanted them for the billy cans 

[wainwright1]

1 hour ago, boxbrownie said:

All the older diesels had hot plates......ASLEF wanted them for the billy cans 

Very civilised.

[The Stationmaster]

1 hour ago, boxbrownie said:

All the older diesels had hot plates......ASLEF wanted them for the billy cans 

And not just ASLE&F - when I joined one of my crews in the cab every morning on my commute to work I always received a nice hot cuppa.  and the hotplates also made quite effective can heaters

[boxbrownie]

4 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

And not just ASLE&F - when I joined one of my crews in the cab every morning on my commute to work I always received a nice hot cuppa.  and the hotplates also made quite effective can heaters

Don’t worry it was a generalisation, I used ASLEF as an example as my Uncle was branch rep at the + for a very long time, I still have the badges......still remember marching through London on the “Ban the Bill” protest back in  1971......

 

BTW never saw ASLEF with the ampersand before.....

[woodenhead]

2 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

When those engines were designed it was a two manned job.

People didn't understand the need for fibre in your diet back then clearly 

[Michael Hodgson]

2 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

BTW never saw ASLEF with the ampersand before.....

They use it themselves sometimes - you can see ASLEF, with and without the ampersand and also with full stops on this page ...

 

http://thebrightonbranchofaslef.yolasite.com/

[SGP]

Regarding hotplates ... all locos had a hotplate in each cab. I never understood why BR started removing them at one end on 47's whilst new locos were (and still are) being built with two.

[Hilux5972]

12 hours ago, adb968008 said:

I’m surprised so many are surprised about a toilet on a locomotive.

Drivers are human and have needs.

 

Loads of diesels had toilets, in the US some locomotives even have sleeping compartments in their noses.

 

Take a look at the luxury loo inside a class 55’s nose..

http://www.scot-rail.co.uk/photo/scaled/9447/

top down and side elevation of the class 45 potty here..

(Flickr url)

several diesel locos use to have a urinal, dont know about modern locos. I recall seeing such decades ago, I cannot remember the class, but it was unsurprisingly minging.
 

 

 

Funny thing about the list on the drawing, it points out the boiler water feed tank and boiler water treatment tank, but fails to point out the boiler lol

[The Stationmaster]

12 hours ago, Hilux5972 said:

Funny thing about the list on the drawing, it points out the boiler water feed tank and boiler water treatment tank, but fails to point out the boiler lol

But it does, albeit with a strange, but accurate, name as it really was intended for carriage warming

[Hilux5972]

3 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

But it does, albeit with a strange, but accurate, name as it really was intended for carriage warming

Oh is that what the CW is?

[69843]

1 minute ago, Hilux5972 said:

Oh is that what the CW is?

At a blind guess, that would be the ETH equivalent 

[dibber25]

The latest Rapido loco - the MLW M420 actually has the toilet modelled. As it is in the front hood of the loco, you can only see it if you dismantle the cab. (CJL)

 

[boxbrownie]

11 hours ago, dibber25 said:

The latest Rapido loco - the MLW M420 actually has the toilet modelled. As it is in the front hood of the loco, you can only see it if you dismantle the cab. (CJL)

 

That’s going the the n’th degree

[Colin_McLeod]

12 hours ago, dibber25 said:

The latest Rapido loco - the MLW M420 actually has the toilet modelled. As it is in the front hood of the loco, you can only see it if you dismantle the cab. (CJL)

 

 

Is it at the number one end or the number two end? 

[Michael Hodgson]

2 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said:

 

Is it at the number one end or the number two end? 

The number one end is off the back of the caboose.

[Tim Hall]

Apparently they are still sending them out, including mine. No indication of how long it'll all take though.

[Colin_McLeod]

Got a phone call from Michael today to clarify my address and to confirm that my GT3 is being despatched now complete with DCC decoder and tested.

[John ks]

After a mixup with the dispatching company mine is now on its way from Canada to Oz

Go figure

John

[truffy]

On 07/04/2021 at 23:18, dibber25 said:

The latest Rapido loco - the MLW M420 actually has the toilet modelled. As it is in the front hood of the loco, you can only see it if you dismantle the cab. (CJL)

 

It would take the most obsessive of super-detailers to install a crew member reading a newspaper with his trousers ‘round his ankles. I wonder if anyone’s done it?

[dagrizz]

1 hour ago, truffy said:

It would take the most obsessive of super-detailers to install a crew member reading a newspaper with his trousers ‘round his ankles. I wonder if anyone’s done it?

 

Or adding a toilet flush to the DCC sound package.

[Keith J]

1 hour ago, truffy said:

It would take the most obsessive of super-detailers to install a crew member reading a newspaper with his trousers ‘round his ankles. I wonder if anyone’s done it?

Apparently this level of detail is set to become bog standard in the future.

[Georgeconna]

10 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said:

Got a phone call from Michael today to clarify my address and to confirm that my GT3 is being despatched now complete with DCC decoder and tested.

Mines on its way!!

 

All of the stuff I have ordered from the UK has missed the Tax Man, Please please let this one escape the snare too!

 

Downside all my Cobalt are going back to DCC concepts to get a issue sorted to bus only service at the moment.

 

[boxbrownie]

41 minutes ago, dagrizz said:

 

Or adding a toilet flush to the DCC sound package.

Didn’t I read it has that feature?