RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 29, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 Well, there we are, 1000 pages of something or other, and solely because of the interest, support and encouragement which I have had from so many people since day one of the thread. Some of you have been visiting for the whole of that time, which is, by the way, almost ten years. Many thanks for making this an enjoyable experience for me, and for keeping me committed to getting on with things. Some things, anyway. The ten year anniversary will need to be marked in some way when it arrives, which will be on 13th July. It will have to be a virtual something or other, no doubt. 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 18 minutes ago, great northern said: Where does the steam come out of that Clive? Oh its kettles.... Bestest has gotta be a Pennsy T1 Worse.....one of Mr Collets pair, closely followed by a the Princess Coronation class 7P 4-6-2......now out of the condom they looked great. 1 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 That bit of excitement over, back to pictures. For some reason our man thought you might like to look at the loaded coal wagons behind the V2, so here they are. Then there is one more horticultural photo, as I thought these water irises looked jolly nice too. All very peaceful. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Congratulations on a 1000 pages, still look forward to my daily fix, the garden pictures are great too. Sorry don't get the fascination with golf? Martyn 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodnok Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Good looking streamlined steam? Hands down, no contest, the GE Steam turbines built for UP. These: For the ugly example ... I almost went with the DRG 05.003, but then saw this thing: http://www.marklinfan.com/public/Gian Michele Sambonet/CFJDZ.jpg ... I've no idea what it is, but it's awful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Another vote for the French monstrosity. They must have given the designer a bigger lump of clay than Collett got. Best... LMS coronation in red with go faster stripes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 3 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Umm, I think that image is EMD E7s? Did you mean Alco PAs? Whoops, I did mean ALCo PAs. I struggled with the link. Sorry! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium thegreenhowards Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 3 hours ago, great northern said: I did specify steam locomotives Andy. Would you like to have another go? Missed that but they do smoke like a steam loco so perhaps they could be considered as honorary entrants?! If not then I suppose I’ll go for an A4 on one of the streamliners. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 29, 2020 Well, for myself the A4 is the best streamlined steam engine, with those Collet efforts of the GWR easily the worst. Rob. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
380John Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 The best looking streamlined has to the NSWGR 38 Class (the first 5) although different articles report them as "semi streamlined" beautiful locomotive equalled in its performance. 3801 has just been rebuilt and looking fabulous. Congrats on the 1000 pages Gilbert. John 1 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 3 hours ago, mullie said: Congratulations on a 1000 pages, still look forward to my daily fix, the garden pictures are great too. Sorry don't get the fascination with golf? Martyn It's one of those things that either really gets to you, or just leaves you cold. I've been doing it for 57 years, so it must be the former in my case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 The A4 is the best looker. The worst? - that French thing with the big nose! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bazza Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 29, 2020 Congratulations on achieving 1000 pages! All very interesting and thank you for sharing Peterborough North and yourself with us. Bazza 4 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 29, 2020 Many congratulations indeed, Gilbert. And it’s now 1001 pages. Well done. Best regards, Rob. 2 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 Tonight we have a look at the J6 standing in the bay while parcels traffic is dealt with. And shortly afterwards the V2 rumbles by, though nothing seems to have neen done about the lamps. 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 (edited) G'Day Folks Congratulations are in order on 1,000 pages of excellence, so much hard work by Gilbert. Thank you. Best looking streamliner, got to be an A4, But....The South Australian 520 class, based on the Pennsy T1, to me looks better than the T1. Here's one 50 years ago. manna Edited May 29, 2020 by manna 6 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 29, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2020 The first of this evening's pictures is very striking .... In a good way (for avoidance of doubt!). 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 A4 for the best. And that strange thing they did to the Schools class is the worst. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 4 hours ago, Market65 said: Well, for myself the A4 is the best streamlined steam engine, with those Collet efforts of the GWR easily the worst. Rob. Amen to that, and you won't be alone. Which brings us to the worst livery applied to steam up until say 1968? I had thought the experimental blue of 1948-51 applied to five BR A4s was pretty dire until I bought the current Hornby version , being 60028 'Walter K. Whigham' which ran non-stop Edinburgh-King's Cross in August 1948 via the Waverley, and thus passed through Peterborough North, which renders it almost but not quite relevant to the thread. Thankyou Gilbert for your beautiful model of the station and great photos. photo below edited, I will restrain myself henceforth. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Congratulations on the 1000 pages and over 25000 replies. Truly inspirational thread, and the daily photos of the model are superb. Cheers David 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 15 minutes ago, robmcg said: Amen to that, and you won't be alone. Which brings us to the worst livery applied to steam up until say 1968? I had thought the experimental blue of 1948-51 applied to five BR A4s was pretty dire until I bought the current Hornby version , being 60028 'Walter K. Whigham' which ran non-stop Edinburgh-King's Cross in August 1948 via the Waverley, and thus passed through Peterborough North, which renders it almost but not quite relevant to the thread. Thankyou Gilbert for your beautiful model of the station and great photos. photo below edited, I will restrain myself henceforth. It’s very pretty Rob, but is it the right colour? I thought BR blue was close to GER blues which was close to Navy? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 (edited) 47 minutes ago, bigwordsmith said: It’s very pretty Rob, but is it the right colour? I thought BR blue was close to GER blues which was close to Navy? It's the early BR 'Experimental Blue' worn by 60024,7,8, and one or two others and sometimes called purple, until replaced by 'ordinary' BR Blue', or Brunswick Green c1950-on. Hornby have modelled 60027 and 8 in 'experimental' blue which is not very pretty to most people and didn't last long in prototype service without fading and the deprecations of post-war maintenance. I haven't changed the Hornby colour and used natural window light for my pic. It's a bit off thread though and is no doubt discussed elsewhere as in a relevant Hornby product thread. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/154475-br-a4-experimental-blue-1948-51/ We must not veer from the Peterborough North c1958 subject too much! Edited May 29, 2020 by robmcg typo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 30, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30, 2020 5 hours ago, manna said: G'Day Folks Congratulations are in order on 1,000 pages of excellence, so much hard work by Gilbert. Thank you. Best looking streamliner, got to be an A4, But....The South Australian 520 class, based on the Pennsy T1, to me looks better than the T1. Here's one 50 years ago. manna I was going to vote for that too but decided that the original PRR T1 just edged it. Funny how we each see things different ways! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Manna beat me to it. I love our South Australian Railways 520 Class. These are far better looking locos than the Pennsy T1 which is too bulky. The second series 520 (523-531) were better looking than the first three in the class (520-522) IMHO. Here is 521 taken by my father in 1966. Here's 526 taken by Phil Butler in 1970 about 12 months before she was most unfortunately scrapped. We do still have two of these, 520 is currently being restored back to working order and 523 is in the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide. But at the end of the day the A4 wins the streamlined category on looks in my view. Congratulations Gilbert on 1000+ pages. Andrew Edited May 30, 2020 by Woodcock29 minor edit 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 30, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2020 Morning once again. Lovely sunshine, but very high pollen levels, which make life a bit difficult. I need to find out why Windoze Photo Gallery has changed the way I see things. I didn't ask it to do that. There will be a way round it though. OK, morning pictures, when I can find them. and a D16 coming in from East with a Leicester local. Very strong light to contend with here, so it has to be black and white, but I'm quite happy with it. You don't get much detail on the loco though. Any opinions or suggestions how I could do it better are welcome. 60003 off on its way to Grantham. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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