RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 28, 2020 For the poll, I’m going with the Q1 too. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted May 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2020 2 hours ago, TrevorP1 said: Ugly? It's got to be this: I was going to add a little personal story about the Leader but things were happening here - the Good Lady's 60th - so I had to post quickly. My Dad had a friend who, like he, had served in Burma during WW2. When Dad's pal came home - he'd been a Chindit I believe - he found a job on the footplate at Eastleigh. He recalled to me that he had fired the Leader and that it was *really* hot. Now this man had got used to the heat in Burma and was also accustomed to Bulleid Pacifics so if he said it was hot, I reckon that most normal folk would have found it unbearable. 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 7 hours ago, great northern said: Morning pictures show more angles on 60149's progress towards Spital Bridge. I hope you like them, as the contortions my body had to put up with to get them were considerable. Should I abandon attempts to get that last angle? I think this is better than previous attempts, but I'm still not convinced. No carry on trying Gilbert. I can’t remember many shots that show the depth of the layout as well as those. The problem that most modellers suffer from is lack of width of the the layout. You are fortunate in being able to get yards and other parts of the railway scene in the back ground and it gives these shots a great sense of authenticity. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 28, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2020 Having given myself a stern talking to, I have just finished a four mile power walk in just under an hour, for which I have awarded myself two merit points. It'll be a long time before I get a gold star though. Sitting with mug of tea at my side, we can now have the afternoon image. The HMRS journal shows Pacifics on the 6.40 KX- Grantham slow fifty per cent of the time, so there is one today. 60003 rests at Platform 6. The first vehicle during the week of the survey was always a Departmental van, so there is a van behind the tender. Until he got Timmed, Andrew K was a regular on the Scotch Goods, so he will be used to that. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 28, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2020 Nothing to do with trains, but a lovely sight in my garden which you may enjoy as I do. Can anyone tell me why, when I have reduced this to 6kb, and try to add another also reduced to that size, that I'm exceeding 10mb? And when at full size they were exactly the same size as the ones I take of the railway, which always get accepted? 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 28, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2020 Here's the other one, I hope. No, won't allow me to upload this at all. I'll try later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Are they camellias? If so much later than ours which finished over a month ago! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 28, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2020 6 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said: Are they camellias? If so much later than ours which finished over a month ago! Peonies Peter. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 7 hours ago, bigwordsmith said: Well I don't mind supporting him - does this count btw? Well I don't mind supporting him once more... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted May 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 28, 2020 12 minutes ago, great northern said: Peonies Peter. They must be the railway modeller's plant Gilbert. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 15 minutes ago, great northern said: Peonies Peter. All those years watching Monty, Rachel and Alan, and the boy's learned nothing - must be getting old - we even have some ni our garden, but not as floribundant as yours! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 28, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2020 2 hours ago, bigwordsmith said: All those years watching Monty, Rachel and Alan, and the boy's learned nothing - must be getting old - we even have some ni our garden, but not as floribundant as yours! It has really taken off this year Peter, over thirty buds on it, and no lousy weather to destroy it all, as happened last year. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 28, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2020 I have designated today as a day of outstanding natural stupidity. Hopefully tomorrow will be an improvement. Our express in view is the 8.00 down Leeds, and Sandwich is the locomotive. These images are the same size as the one which was rejected earlier. What is going on? For once I don't think I'm responsible. 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 28, 2020 Well, Gilbert, I’ve noticed strange things going on with the internet today. The latest is that Google Photos is behaving strangely. There may be a bigger problem than RMWeb. I guess time will tell. Best regards, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Bullet-nosed King for ugliest, but there are so many choices! <g> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bazza Posted May 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 28, 2020 Now you have almost reached 1000 pages, perhaps you ought to check with Andy York that there is no charge for a super size thread! Congratulations in advance for a very significant achievement and thanks for all the extra entertainment during the lockdown. Bazza 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 4 hours ago, bigwordsmith said: Well I don't mind supporting him once more... Me neither, we will get through this last page in no time! Here is a picture to take us further down the page, taken at Rogart in May 2019 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Q1 for me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 14 hours ago, great northern said: Why did she back it? It only had one eye, and so she felt sorry for it! That's as good a reason as any I reckon. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 8 hours ago, bigwordsmith said: All those years watching Monty, Rachel and Alan Admit it, you were only watching Rachel really. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 29, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2020 Morning all. Lovely again, and after yesterday's setbacks, I shall start afresh. Another photo from Spital Bridge for you, as Sandwich approaches the photographer. Next we had another V2 heading up to London with a mixed goods. It will be coming to a grinding halt shortly though, as the signalman in North box will have noticed that it is displaying Class C lamps, when they should be Class H. He couldn't wait for it to get closer though, and tried zooming in. He also wanted to include the A4 at platform 6, but a signal finial put a stop to that. 26 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 29, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 Definitely strange things happening with the internet. My last post has a sentence in completely the wrong place, and straight afterwards there was a short loss of connection altogether. However, it is back now, and so the poll result can be given. There were a number of suggestions, just showing how our individual perceptions differ, but I have to announce that the poor Southern Q1 got twice as many votes as anything else, 6 in all. At least I assume it was the Southern one people were voting for, rather than Mr Thompson's effort. There were also some mentions of dodgy attempts at streamlining, so we shall have that as the theme of today's poll. Votes please for the best and worst looking streamlined steam locomotives, and we will extend this world wide again. Once more aesthetics matter, rather than success or otherwise of the design in doing what it was supposed to do. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Best looking streamliner - has to be the A4. Worst looking - has to be Manorbier Castle. And that is from someone who prefers that company that was little changed at the grouping! Lloyd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 3rd Rail Exile Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 Are you stretching "streamlining" to include "air-smoothing"? The two are not the same... If so: Best - either variety of Spam can. Worst - streamlined "King" as mentioned previously... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 29, 2020 44 minutes ago, great northern said: Sandwich approaches the photographer. The last time I went to Sandwich I was watching Tiger Woods. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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