Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Useful tip #880.......... 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Useful tip #880.......... P1140880.JPG Looks like they've got a shed load of trouble! Davey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 (edited) So it's got a nifty lift out body panel, and I still can't get to the decoder socket... Post this pic in the Wheeltappers picture caption thread and see what other offers you get? Edited March 27, 2018 by 34theletterbetweenB&D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Is that like the old cup-and-ball conjouring trick, so after it's put in place and then lifted off again the engine's disappeared ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 An ample demonstration of where the nick-name came from, I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairburn Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Useful tip #880.......... P1140880.JPG Installing a reblown, more authentic sound chip? Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted March 27, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2018 When they scrap the 66s, they should sell those roof panels separately. They'd make a good basis for a garden shed (to house a layout of course!). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 27, 2018 Author Share Posted March 27, 2018 It did take them about 20 minutes to fit it back straight, with a little help from a few judicious whacks of a big lump of wood...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 An ample demonstration of where the nick-name came from, I think. I can't fathom how you've worked out why I call them "F****** heap of **** *******" from that picture. Well done! C6T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon A Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Glad it was not raining. Gordon A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Installing a reblown, more authentic sound chip? Ian Didn't know Leggmanbiffo did a washing machine sound file..? C6T. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 When they scrap the 66s, they should sell those roof panels separately. They'd make a good basis for a garden shed (to house a layout of course!). I can see it working as a miniature railway stock shed like this one at Hatfield House: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8379/8606142889_780fc37d19_b.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedders Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 I hope there is some foreshortening in the photo and they're not working under a suspended load... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted March 28, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2018 When they scrap the 66s, they should sell those roof panels separately. They'd make a good basis for a garden shed (to house a layout of course!). The new version of all the old grounded van bodies still lying around? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 I hope there is some foreshortening in the photo and they're not working under a suspended load... c'mon - they're only plastic guys from Modelu ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 The new version of all the old grounded van bodies still lying around? Allowing a future preservation society to do the inevitable 'rebuild' featuring just one original component found in a field somewhere. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted March 28, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2018 I hope there is some foreshortening in the photo and they're not working under a suspended load... Hard to tell from the photo but it doesn't line up with a vertical lift up so I think it's been moved, although quite where to relative to the people working I couldn't say. The roof looks somewhat closer to the camera than the gap, and rotated a little differently (which could simply be rotating about the chain rather than the crane having rotate out of the way). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 I can't fathom how you've worked out why I call them "F****** heap of **** *******" from that picture. Well done! C6T. Another one living in the,past ! They’d be no freight at all now if it wasn’t for these... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Another one living in the,past ! They’d be no freight at all now if it wasn’t for these... I don't think that's quite true, I'm sure if the 66's didn't exist something else would've come along. And the fact remains that 66's are a pile of ******* ****, and if you'd had drive them day in day out for most of the last twenty years I'm sure you'd agree. As I've said previously I know that management love them because they do have excellent availability, but from a drivers point of view the cabs and comfort from them is appalling and I'm sure they could've been designed much much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Another one living in the,past ! They’d be no freight at all now if it wasn’t for these... They would be no freight? Wtf? Poor English notwithstanding, how on earth did we manage to shift millions of tons of goods before these came along? Thanx GM for your undernourished Class 59-lite, that are knocking on twenty years old BTW. C6T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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