Little Muddle

[Mulgabill]

7 hours ago, Nevermakeit said:

How do we know they are empty?  Do they have a different head-code from full ones?

I don't know this to be true, but

 

I thought loaded would run with a passenger brake, at passenger timings.

 

The return empties, could return as freight, as long as there was time to

maintain the next departure time, full.

 

Or maybe I've overthought this???

 

TONY

[aardvark]

Hmmm, maybe that crate is empty ...

 

[MrWolf]

1 hour ago, aardvark said:

Hmmm, maybe that crate is empty ...

 

 

That's a possibility. Machine crates often had to be returned to the factory that sent them out. Maybe it's about to leave rather than just arrived?

[KNP]

9319 at rest after such a busy day!!!

 

[Ponthir28]

Busy day. Didn’t  it all start last week?

Edited December 7, 2023 by Ponthir28

[Oldddudders]

2 hours ago, Ponthir28 said:

Busy day. Didn’t  it all start last week?

Yes, but time is a different concept in the Muddliverse. 

[KNP]

Time does indeed stand still at LM

This is the station clock........

 

 

I need a hand (s) to fix it!

 

 

[Oldddudders]

Many years ago my parents were given a book by Stanley Unwin, drawings by Roy Dewar. It included a very ornate clock tower, with an equally useless clock. "Built by public subscribe, which didn't that far".

[John Besley]

5 hours ago, KNP said:

9319 at rest after such a busy day!!!

 

 

No doubt its been stopped by the local fitter to have the cabside window replaced following a coming together with the handle end of the pricker bar ....

 

 

Edited December 7, 2023 by John Besley

[Fishplate]

1 hour ago, John Besley said:

No doubt its been stopped by the local fitter to have the cabside window replaced following a coming together with the handle end of the pricker bar ....

 

Is that the voice of experience . . . .?🤔

[MrWolf]

35 minutes ago, Fishplate said:

 

Is that the voice of experience . . . .?🤔

 

As in: Steady on! You'll have somebody's eye out with that thing! Now see what you have done, you clumsy etc......

[John Besley]

1 hour ago, Fishplate said:

 

Is that the voice of experience . . . .?🤔

 

Yes but not by me that time, 7827 Lydham Manor initially ran back in 1973 with what is known in the glazing industry as georgian wired glass in her front spectacle plate due to the then non availability of plate glass of the correct thickness

 

The drivers side window had a crack in it from the Dart, very long bar with a diamond shaped end for slicing up a clinker fire bed, this lived in the tender on the fireiron hooks as opposed to the pricker bar which lived in the fireiron trough/tunnel the firemans side, as this was easier to get out when running rather than try and manipulate a very long unwieldy bar in an open cab...

 

Long story from 50 years ago as a 14 year old (help I am getting old)

[MrWolf]

I remember seeing a chap lift a petrol lawnmower into the boot of his shiny new Astra and instead of lowering the tailgate carefully to check nothing was sticking out, slammed it shut. 🫤

 

To add insult to injury, it started to rain.

 

I managed not to laugh until I'd driven off though!

[figworthy]

4 hours ago, MrWolf said:

I remember seeing a chap lift a petrol lawnmower into the boot of his shiny new Astra and instead of lowering the tailgate carefully to check nothing was sticking out, slammed it shut. 🫤

 

 

Reminds me of the tale of someone loading something long into the back of his car, then (as usual) slamming the rear door shut to push the load right it.  Except this time the usual load was rigid, not flexible. 

 

Remember the days when vehicles had hinged front windscreens ?

 

Adrian

[KNP]

And still the polite wagon waits....not much longer i feel?

 

[Ponthir28]

Well I am waiting for Spring. Not to keen on Winter on my old knees.

[Gedward]

 

Wondering how long he'll stay polite at this rate?

 

[KNP]

And a picture sent in from the scarecrow using their Box Brownie of 9319

 

 

Still pondering on how he held and operated the camera?

 

Edited December 9, 2023 by KNP

[Ponthir28]

Probably asked Worzel Gummidge for advice?

[MrWolf]

Not sure, a scarecrow could usually only take "selfie" pictures, unless he has his phone pointing backwards?

[Winslow Boy]

Motion operated?

 

No sorry that wouldn't work would it.

[MrWolf]

13 minutes ago, Ponthir28 said:

Probably asked Worzel Gummidge for advice?

 

That's likely, as he'd been around since 1936.

[Ray H]

39 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Motion operated?

 

No sorry that wouldn't work would it.

 

Seems to work at Little Muddle or are we being led up the proverbial garden path?

[Winslow Boy]

23 minutes ago, Ray H said:

 

Seems to work at Little Muddle or are we being led up the proverbial garden path?

Suppose you might have a point. We just have to redefine of what we think of as motion.

[MrWolf]

It's obviously stop motion...

 

Great picture though, because it's probably not what someone would have expended an expensive negative on back then, but more likely what you would actually have seen, a loco at a distance, going about it's work.