Wickham Green too Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Pretty pointless sticking a filthy brake tender in front of your experimental orange panel, innit !!?! 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted August 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2021 1 hour ago, pH said: Well, yes - but there were very few elephants roaming the streets of Glasgow for him to use in measurements. Fair point, however a quick Google suggests that an elephant is potentially upwards of 50hp. Sounds a bit over much to me, but nevertheless, that would mean a 62ep Deltic.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 On 05/08/2021 at 16:52, Compound2632 said: Anyway horses aren't the real offenders there - it's flatulent beef cattle overfed on grass. All mammalian herbivore produce methane as a by-product of converting cellulose into short-chain fatty acid. Cows, sheep, horses, rabbits, wildebeest, elephants, vegans, gorillas, pandas are all* as 'bad' as the next one. For some reason kangaroos are an exception. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 (edited) 15 hours ago, pH said: Well, yes - but there were very few elephants roaming the streets of Glasgow for him to use in measurements. Not, perhaps, on the streets of Glasgow - but I've seen evidence of pachyderms a wee bit further north and east : - Edited August 7, 2021 by Wickham Green too 2 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 6, 2021 Mmm. A sheep with a trunk and tusks............. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted August 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2021 1 hour ago, rodent279 said: Fair point, however a quick Google suggests that an elephant is potentially upwards of 50hp. Sounds a bit over much to me, but nevertheless, that would mean a 62ep Deltic.... Further reading suggests the average elephant is equal to about 8-10hp, which sounds more likely to me. So a Deltic is around 300ep, for about 20 times the weight of an elephant, so not a bad gig really. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium zarniwhoop Posted August 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 7, 2021 5 hours ago, melmerby said: I wonder what the typical tractive effort of an Indian Elephant is? How does it compare to an African Elephant? African bush elephant or African forest elephant ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 3 hours ago, melmerby said: Mmm. A sheep with a trunk and tusks............. More like a Woolly Mammoth! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 13 hours ago, Mark Saunders said: More like a Woolly Mammoth! ........... or a shaggy dog story ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 18 hours ago, leopardml2341 said: Notice an 'Invacar' loaded on this first wagon. Are vehicles 2 & 3 ferry vans of some description? They are ferry vans; pre-War SNCF, I think. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 17 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: Not, perhaps, on the streets of Glasgow - but I've seen evidence of pachyderms a wee bit further north and east : - Wasn't there an elephant that was used in lieu of a team of horses in the Sheffield area during WW2? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Midgeholme 1953 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 39 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Midgeholme 1953 An early prototype of this? https://www.trha.ca/trha/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/m497-1.jpg 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted August 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 8, 2021 On 06/08/2021 at 23:11, Wickham Green too said: Not, perhaps, on the streets of Glasgow - but I've seen evidence of pachyderms a wee bit further north and east : - Isn’t that just a sheep playing a recorder? Cheers Darius 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Nae laddie ..... a sheep playing a recorder's called bagpipes ! With sincere apologies to any Scots who may be watching. 2 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 On 06/08/2021 at 22:33, billbedford said: All mammalian herbivore produce methane as a by-product of converting cellulose into short-chain fatty acid. Cows, sheep, horses, rabbits, wildebeest, elephants, vegans, gorillas, pandas are all* as 'bad' as the next one. For some reason kangaroos are an exception. My wifes cooking and my arse must account for a large proportion as well 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
47475 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 On 02/06/2021 at 21:00, Western Aviator said: Coincidentally, in the early 1990s de-branded Regional Railways Mk2s sometimes appeared amongst the Network SouthEast coaches in the formation of Waterloo-Exeter line trains. There are quite a few examples in this video. These were Provincial livery, although some may have been de-branded from Trans-Pennine. These pre-dated the Regional Railways livery, as the lower body colour was the same shade of beige used on InterCity, rather than the silver/grey colour used when they went into Regional Railways branding. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted August 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2021 Mmmmh, Warship sandwich.... Bath 1971 by KDH Archive 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted August 8, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 8, 2021 23 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Midgeholme 1953 By the looks of it, if they started it up, the wagon would probably fall apart. Adrian 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 On 07/08/2021 at 20:32, montyburns56 said: Midgeholme 1953 Thought it might have been a version of the snow clearance machine tried in 1947, video here... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 On 07/08/2021 at 16:29, Fat Controller said: Wasn't there an elephant that was used in lieu of a team of horses in the Sheffield area during WW2? Commemorated on a sign in Centenary Riverside Park on the boundary of Rotherham/Sheffield, also site of Steelhenge in the background: Details here: "During the First World War there was a shortage of horses, this made it difficult to haul heavy steel loads in such factories as the Seven Sisters. To solve this problem, Tomas Ward – a local business man – enlisted the help of LIzzie, an ex-circus elephant whose many mischievous stories of eating school boy's hats and even knocking over a traction engine are still told today." [sic] While we're on elephants, did anyone mention Tuffi falling out of the Wuppertal monorail? 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, eastwestdivide said: While we're on elephants, did anyone mention Tuffi falling out of the Wuppertal monorail? Wanted an early bath? Edited August 9, 2021 by melmerby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted August 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 9, 2021 2 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: While we're on elephants, did anyone mention Tuffi falling out of the Wuppertal monorail? or that Edison (notorious exploiter of other people's patents) publicly electrocuted an elephant as his proof that Tesla's AC power supply was more dangerous than his own DC power supply. Of course, AC proved better for supplying over greater distances, and simpler to change voltage up or down, so winning the argument later. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted August 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 9, 2021 18 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Mmmmh, Warship sandwich.... Bath 1971 by KDH Archive Not realised before…the driving position on the Warships is much higher than on the 47s. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK123GWR Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, Ian Morgan said: or that Edison (notorious exploiter of other people's patents) publicly electrocuted an elephant as his proof that Tesla's AC power supply was more dangerous than his own DC power supply. Of course, AC proved better for supplying over greater distances, and simpler to change voltage up or down, so winning the argument later. DC's hopes died long before Topsy. Edison had already left the lighting industry by that point. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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