Nearholmer Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Yes, I think its a very lightly-laid branch of the Emu Bay Railway in Tasmania, where Miss Stepney spent a period as what amounted to a missionary for a temperance society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) Only if you get a new whistle....I was going to do it in civvies! Edited December 18, 2018 by sem34090 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Yes, I think its a very lightly-laid branch of the Emu Bay Railway in Tasmania, where Miss Stepney spent a period as what amounted to a missionary for a temperance society. Errr.... No, its a TRAP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 No, its a TRAP! Not a von Trapp, surely!! Was that one of them we had earlier? Jim (Follows Hroth off stage left) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2018 I fear in the absence of our leader the town has gone slightly insane send on the Dancing Girls there should be a prize to whom ever brings the meeting back to order Nick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Ahem. Yes Miss. Sorry Miss. Miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 I fear in the absence of our leader the town has gone slightly insane send on the Dancing Girls there should be a prize to whom ever brings the meeting back to order Nick Little Mix? They scrub up well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Parishioners, please! Take a deep breath, count five 'Jenny Agutter's, and abandon your thespian exploits for this evening! - Lady Beauclerk. I tried earlier, but to no avail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2018 Funny you should mention that. Miss Stepney again, riding side-saddle on the locomotive of an obscure emu-operated light railway somewhere foreign. Blimey Kevin, you've excelled yourself this time. Where on earth do you dig 'em up from? Did you just google "girl sitting on emu"? I can imagine that might throw up some non-RMweb-compliant results... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Strangely, it’s not difficult to find such pictures. Same emu, I think. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 One wonders what the Tasmanian National Hunt was like, in full cry. Did they use wombats instead of hounds? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Nah, they use dingoes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 there should be a prize to whom ever brings the meeting back to order WEEEELL!! If we're ordering, mine's a large malt Whisky, neat, no ice! Jim (just off to pour one to help this d****d cold I have. It possibly has no medicinal properties, but it does make you feel better!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 I don't mean to be the thread's resident struthiform pedant but I'd contend that the bird in the photo is a male ostrich. An emu is feathered further up the neck, somewhat smaller and has feathers of a nondescript scruffy colour all over, whereas the white feathers on the wing tips and tail are characteristic of the male Struthio camelus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Nah, they use dingoes. More likely Tasmanian Devils. The quarry wouldn't stand a chance! (Nor, possibly, the emus) Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) ...Struthio camelus. I read that as Struthiomimus at first and now I can't stop imagining the image with the ostrich replaced with a dinosaur... Edited December 18, 2018 by RedGemAlchemist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Struthiomimus meaning of course an ostrich mimic, so the photo wouldn't be a million miles away. Just to get us back to modelling, I have a one of these in a cupboard from when I was 13: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/games-workshop/images/0/0a/Cold_One_knight.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20150731002037 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2018 Quote: Struthio camelus. I'm not sure what it is, but it certainly looks like its got the hump... Andy G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Struthiomimus meaning of course an ostrich mimic, so the photo wouldn't be a million miles away. Just to get us back to modelling, I have a one of these in a cupboard from when I was 13: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/games-workshop/images/0/0a/Cold_One_knight.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20150731002037 Oh wow, that's old school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Oh dear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) While we are rambling about with Edwardian ladies on strange mounts my grandfather snapped this while wiring up Abbassia Barracks in 1912-13. This print was dated on the back - 1912, but another copy of the print had 1913 on the back. Both were in the same hand-writing. Let that be a lesson to you - you can't always rely on the information on old photos. Edited December 19, 2018 by phil_sutters 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2018 One wonders what the Tasmanian National Hunt was like, in full cry. Did they use wombats instead of hounds? Wombats aren’t used for hunting. They are used for playing wom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Wombats aren’t used for hunting. They are used for playing wom. They produce dice. Nicely shaped, just use a cocktail stick to make the required number of dots on each face. Handy thing to know if you're stuck in the antipodean Bush and discover you've lost part of your ludo set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) Crikey. Even with the holidays coming up, I may now never catch up with this topic. There was some great stuff, including shipping. My first Norfolk-inspired idea was for a very decayed coastal railway running diminutive 0-4-0STs along the top of sea defences on the north Norfolk coast. The line would have run to a partially silted up harbour, capable only of accommodating shallow-draft sailing vessels. This idea was inspired by visits to Burnham Overy Staithe. Well, ultimately the idea became Birchoverham Staithe on the West Norfolk Railway, though I still hanker over that decrepit little coastal line. Then I built those Castle Acre inspired cottage backs and I found myself modelling Castle Aching, and the opposite end of the line! So, the shipping pictured seems perfect for the imagined Expanded Norfolk. Anyhow, I have been flat out and still have more work to get through than there are working days before Christmas! The Eric Ambler novel proved a very good investment, by the way. With my Newfound Wealth, I have ordered a louvred chimney pot from Scalelink for the Drill Hall. Such extravagance! EDIT: PS, Don't know about Wombats, but I do know that there is nothing that a Wompom cannot do! Edited December 18, 2018 by Edwardian 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 They produce dice. Nicely shaped, just use a cocktail stick to make the required number of dots on each face. Handy thing to know if you're stuck in the antipodean Bush and discover you've lost part of your ludo set. Best played wearing those nice blue nitrile surgical gloves! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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