RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 16, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2013 E pericoloso sporgersi. Mezzo chilo di salsicce. Il mio postiglione e stato colpito da un fulmine. Cosi che cosa si usa un 'scartomento' per? Does it come with chips? Mmm, donne delle pulizie puo essere divertente... Ah, thought not Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted November 16, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2013 I must have missed something - when did Quai:87 get relocated to Italy ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted November 16, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2013 And dangerous overreach. Half a kilo of sausages. My postilion has been struck by lightning. So What is a 'scartomento' for? Mmm, maids can be fun ... Secondo il 'Google Translate' sta parlando senza senso ... (According to 'Google Translate' he's talking gibberish...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted November 17, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2013 I must have missed something - when did Quai:87 get relocated to Italy ? I'm sure that Brian won't mind me quoting his oft used expression when asked what country it is based upon........"where would you like it to be ?!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 17, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2013 E pericoloso sporgersi. ISTR a spoof document in the early '80s, something to do with the Vatican Railway, I imagine, in which E Pericoloso Sporgersi was named as Chief S&T Engineer! And no, I don't often lean out of windows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted November 17, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2013 (edited) (According to 'Google Translate' he's talking gibberish...) So, what's new? Edited November 17, 2013 by Budgie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 I must have missed something - when did Quai:87 get relocated to Italy ? QUAI:87 goes on holiday sometimes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 The caption sayscaption.jpg Hows your Italian, Brian Sorry but the correct answer is 'she's fine, hows yours?' 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 17, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2013 What you get up to in your own time is nothing to do with me! Do you know what that means!? Yes, it means that what I get up to in my own time is nothing to do with you. Cosi fan tutte. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 17, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2013 Cosi fan tutte. I knew a nice girl with one of those. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Can't have been that nice, or she wouldn't have let you find out..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 17, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2013 Can't have been that nice, or she wouldn't have let you find out..... Quite right - I must just be used to trading down-market. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Copleston Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 There doesn't appear to be any rail break between the ground based track and that on the near part of the traverser. Could it be that the near part of the traverser was fixed when the point was added, and only the far part actually moves ? Stubby, Look closely at the head of the left-hand rail - you can see the gap faintly. Then follow it across to the other rails. The whole lot moves together. Quite fascinating and utterly bonkers. Which naturally makes if completely irresistible The Baron! What's the bet that sooner or later he rips summat out to 'make' space for this on QUAI:87? Deffo! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 18, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 18, 2013 Stubby, Look closely at the head of the left-hand rail - you can see the gap faintly. Then follow it across to the other rails. The whole lot moves together. Quite fascinating and utterly bonkers. Which naturally makes if completely irresistible The Baron! What's the bet that sooner or later he rips summat out to 'make' space for this on QUAI:87? Deffo! I think it's time he built Quai:87A - an organically grown and quite natural extension to his masterpiece.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 46444 Posted November 18, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 18, 2013 I think it's time he built Quai:87A - an organically grown and quite natural extension to his masterpiece.... Would that be the South Wales extension at Neath? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 18, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 18, 2013 I think it's time he built Quai:87A - an organically grown and quite natural extension to his masterpiece.... Yes bit having seen the weirdness that's already taken place it might be an extension in an unforeseen direction; break out the shovels for the Quai:87 Metro? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 18, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 18, 2013 Yes bit having seen the weirdness that's already taken place it might be an extension in an unforeseen direction; break out the shovels for the Quai:87 Metro? Don't go giving him ideas, Neil...! No, on second thoughts, do!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 I think it's time he built Quai:87A - an organically grown and quite natural extension to his masterpiece.... QUAI:88 surely Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 18, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 18, 2013 QUAI:88 surely The broad gauge version? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Copleston Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 (edited) QUAI:88 surely QUAI:88? That'd be built to 3.46mm/foot scale then... Don't do it Baron!! Edited November 19, 2013 by Phil Copleston Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 (edited) QUAI:88? That'd be built to 3.46mm/foot scale then... Don't do it Baron!! Might do 'The LOST QUAI'. That would save building any track wouldn't it. (♫ Geddit). The Baron Edited November 19, 2013 by Brian Harrap 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 As long as it isn't OFF QUAI! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhBBob Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Nah, just join all the QUAI together with a Piano40 (Italy again) and it all becomes a LOST CHORD...... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted November 22, 2013 Author Share Posted November 22, 2013 Nah, just join all the QUAI together with a Piano40 (Italy again) and it all becomes a LOST CHORD...... Yes, thats what I was looking for, Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 (edited) The ongoing quest for realisticly following prototypical operations plumbed new depths on QUAI:87 recently, but not in the way you might imagine. Track in the street, wonderful though it is to behold, in model form and in real 12"-1' life conceals a hidden nightmare for the track maintenance crew. And so it came to pass, on the cobbled trackage at the end of the tram route on QUAI:87, the operating linkage gave up on one of the tramway turnouts. It would have to be the one furthest away from the operating lever (a wheely bin in this case) and beyond another turnout and a couple of sidings. Nothing to do but follow the prototype and suspend tram services (put on a bus-NO) and start digging up the cobbles. Took me ages to find where and how I had connected it up in the first place and in the end I made a bit of a mess of it. Trying to do the repair job without digging up too many cobbles was a little like I imagine keyhole surgery must be. (Never done any of that). I ended up threading, with much difficulty, a new piece of tubing under the ok turnout and wriggling it into position. Running the wire through and attaching it onto the single point blade down in that small flangeway gap without soldering it all up solid was easy by comparison. Then, much as the real life PW gang might have done I thought 'sodde the cobbles, we'll patch it up with Tarmac' so I did, being carefull to make a roughish job of it so that someone can come back and do the cobbles another day, as part of a 'make work' program.. Looking back on the job I was quite pleased with how similar the repair was to how it would be in full size. Rather wish I'd gone back and tidyed up the old cobbles and taken them away in a wheelbarrow instead of just slinging them in the canal. Oh well maybe next time. Brian, Zobmeister, QUAI:87. Edited December 6, 2013 by Brian Harrap 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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