SOS Junction. If anything happens would someone wake me up please..

[Mallard60022]

Thunderbattles  are go  https://track-shack.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e256bf223a901879b4946813&id=147a1fde9d&e=2ed516f6bf

10 'Bulk' packs please...................

Wallets erect etc. Get those points in stock Neal

Philthylucre.

Edited October 19, 2017 by Mallard60022

[Tim Dubya]

[Clive Mortimore]

Thunderbattles  are go  https://track-shack.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e256bf223a901879b4946813&id=147a1fde9d&e=2ed516f6bf

10 'Bulk' packs please...................

Wallets erect etc. Get those points in stock Neal

Philthylucre.

Wot you doing buying bully head track? You should have fatbottom on wooden sleepers with Mk3 baseplates. Well that is wot is on the main line through Seaton Junction in your time period. Pure myth that steam n-gins ran on bullyboy track only. Many mainlines were relaid in the early 1950s with flatbottom track.

[New Haven Neil]

Thunderbattles  are go  https://track-shack.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e256bf223a901879b4946813&id=147a1fde9d&e=2ed516f6bf

10 'Bulk' packs please...................

Wallets erect etc. Get those points in stock Neal

Philthylucre.

 

First few dip the toe in boxes flew out.  Some folk buying a yard or two, one then bought nearly the lot.  Looks OK to me actually, shame its not 3 foot gauge, which is standard gauge here!!!!

 

Points will be on their way soon hopefully.  I want some so we have to get them........  It's the kick up the fundament to get me started on my new layout.  Now, do they do bullballs conductor rail, and pots?

[Clive Mortimore]

WTF is that? Is it a recording of  an OOFS meeting? maybe it was their A.G.M.C.B A. 

O.H. Deer

Phil my friend, that is from the Great Rock n Roll Swindle. There cannot be many punk films with the ever lovely Mrs Irene Handl in them.  Mind you there weren't many British films without her at the time.

Edited October 20, 2017 by Clive Mortimore

[St Enodoc]

Couldn't we call them OOFS?

Or OO FFS?

[St Enodoc]

I haven't even been to the Pee Co. thread for ages and ages, so I haven't seen what the fuss has been all about.

 

However, if further entertainment is required, one can always start an argument with oneself.

 

Or just listen to some super old TV theme tunes -

If you like this, you might also like:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vintage-Radio-Classics-Philharmonic-Orchestra/dp/B001LZOPWW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508475740&sr=8-1&keywords=british+light+miniatures+vintage+tv+radio+classics

 

Other vendors are available.

[St Enodoc]

Normal service has resumed!

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/127329-peco-bullhead-points-the-reported-facts/

[Tim Dubya]

All that Peecaboob and Handmade stuff is for people with too much time on their hands.

 

What you really need is some of this (see below), you don't have to ballast it Coz it's already got a perfectly good track bed moulded on and you don't need to waste too much space, because you can fit a double loop on a 6 x 4 board. Points are available.

 

Also My Highly detailed Triang Princess runs perfectly well when I set it up on My Granny's Rug

 

EZYTrack.jpg

 

That should end the argument and everyone can put their handbags away.

 

( I really wish I had posted this over there before Andy Shut it down )

 

 

#FineGauge

[Oldddudders]

My Granny's Rug

Can we expect an early photo?

[GRUNFOS]

Andy Y has issued a yellow card to the Hornby class 87 thread, told you it was a replacement for the pecaboo bh diatribe.

Schlap Dard.

Edited October 20, 2017 by GRUNFOS

[Clive Mortimore]

Normal service has resumed!

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/127329-peco-bullhead-points-the-reported-facts/

Avoiding

 

 

Andy Y has issued a yellow card to the Hornby class 87 thread, told you it was a replacement for the pecaboo bh diatribe.

Schlap Dard.

Class 87, far too modern for this diesel and electric modeller to get involved in.

 

I am going to Warley representing DEMU. I will have a collection of part built EMUs in front of me. All 1960s stuff. I am sure someone will associate my modelling with knowledge of electric traction and  will ask me about the new class 87 model if not the new class 90 that Bachmann have got certain people all wet in the pants over. I am practicing my blank look face.

Edited October 20, 2017 by Clive Mortimore

[New Haven Neil]

Normal service has resumed!

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/127329-peco-bullhead-points-the-reported-facts/

 

Couldn't resist, sorry!

[Tim Dubya]

I need some people to discuss sensibly and with understanding the case for ripping up my Station Loops, Branch and Yards on SOSJFSOOTRAINSET and using this Pecooboobs product. If I did this it would mean I would have to rip up all the other track as well and either replace it with Finescale Fat Bottoms or adjust all the sleepers on the existing Pecooboobs C75 almost Finescale OO stuff. Graham of Grantham must be consulted or ignored depending upon your bent. 

I'll give you a few weeks to make a case either way and please choose a spokesperson to present the findings.

Nee Goatiation

Not at the moment but I suspect there is plenty of bull#### to ballast it with.........................

M. Eldon

 

Oh Phillette-O-Philth

 

 

You'd be right barmy to rip up all that lovely track and replace it with PecoBull ® 

 

Personally I'd  just pray for early onset crap-o-vision™ then you won't even see that you've used the wrong rail fishers

 

I have had E O C-O-V™ for yonks (both metric & imperial) and now just have the 3 settings:

 

1. Driving

 

2. Looking at trainporn on the puter

 

3. Watching trainporn on the telebox.

 

 

Leave it!

 

[Clive Mortimore]

I need some people to discuss sensibly and with understanding the case for ripping up my Station Loops, Branch and Yards on SOSJFSOOTRAINSET and using this Pecooboobs product. If I did this it would mean I would have to rip up all the other track as well and either replace it with Finescale Fat Bottoms or adjust all the sleepers on the existing Pecooboobs C75 almost Finescale OO stuff. Graham of Grantham must be consulted or ignored depending upon your bent. 

I'll give you a few weeks to make a case either way and please choose a spokesperson to present the findings.

Nee Goatiation

Not at the moment but I suspect there is plenty of bull#### to ballast it with.........................

M. Eldon

HI Phil

 

I am going to try and be serious for once.

 

How many years have you got left to go up the Junction?

How many years has it taken you to get trains running?

Do you want to enjoy many years of trains running?

Do you want to undo what you have done and start again?

Do you want better looking track?

 

Basically you have the choice of starting again or put up with what you have.

[bigwordsmith]

In all seriousness Phil I wouldn't go for a rip up and put down approach - apart from the cost, once track is properly laid, ballasted and weathered, all anyone will notice is the overall colour and shiny rail tops.

 

TbH folks armoire interested in watching the things that move than the bit they've on.

[Tim Dubya]

TBH I really don't think you'd notice the track once you realise that all your spams have the wrong tenders, your milk tanks have the wrong wheels and your carriages... well, they're just serving the wrong catering and 2nd class sand-witches.

 

 

.

Edited October 20, 2017 by Tim Dubya

[great northern]

Morning Phil,

 

From personal experience, I would suggest that the test should be this. Sit down and think very seriously and for as long as it takes you to answer this simple question. "am I now going to be content with what I have and see when I go up in the loft?"  If the answer is yes, leave it, but if your feeling is that you will now never be truly happy or satisfied with it, that isn't a good point from which to try to carry on. It's no use looking at something and thinking " I wish" or " I should have", and it is very likely eventually to kill motivation.

 

But look, have you been enjoying what you are doing? It sounds like it to me. Does it enthuse you, and does it look enough like what you want to achieve as it is? If so, put the doubts to one side, and get on with it. One last factor I suppose. Can you be sure you can motivate yourself to start all over again? If that thought makes your heart sink, take the hint and forget bull****.

[colin penfold]

Or just look at the photos of Robin's layout and ask "is that trackwork good enough for me?"

Edited October 20, 2017 by colin penfold

[bigwordsmith]

Another thought is the question of our ever decreasing mobility. On Tuesday I saw a new Consultant who told me that I've now lost about a third of my lung capacity and while they hope to be able to get a wee bit of it back the long term prognosis is of a 'continuing decline in quality of life' 

 

This got me to thinking about how I can make the best use of the time I have left before shortness of breath has an even greater impact on life than it does now, and I realised that some things are more important than others. I'd probably put bullhead tracks in the latter category!

[brushman47544]

Basically you have the choice of starting again or put up with what you have.

 

Suggested edit:

 

Basically you have the choice of starting again or put up with enjoy what you have.

[Mallard60022]

Wot you doing buying bully head track? You should have fatbottom on wooden sleepers with Mk3 baseplates. Well that is wot is on the main line through Seaton Junction in your time period. Pure myth that steam n-gins ran on bullyboy track only. Many mainlines were relaid in the early 1950s with flatbottom track.

Fatbottom on wood on the fasts (nice 60' lengths too). Bullshite on wood on the Loops and everywhere else. Fatbottoms on the Incline with a variety of sleepers depending on year and where you be lookin'.

Philth

[Clive Mortimore]

Suggested edit:

 

Basically you have the choice of starting again or put up with enjoy what you have.

Hi Andrew thanks for the edit.

Fatbottom on wood on the fasts (nice 60' lengths too). Bullshite on wood on the Loops and everywhere else. Fatbottoms on the Incline with a variety of sleepers depending on year and where you be lookin'.

Philth

Your pictures.

[Mallard60022]

HI Phil

 

I am going to try and be serious for once.

 

How many years have you got left to go up the Junction?

How many years has it taken you to get trains running?

Do you want to enjoy many years of trains running?

Do you want to undo what you have done and start again?

Do you want better looking track?

 

Basically you have the choice of starting again or put up with what you have.

 

ET AL.

Fear not dear friends. I was pulling a fast one about the ripping up of the lovely Peccoboobs FBFSFFSOO. I really appreciate your concerns and Smiffy's situation puts things into perspective dies it not? I will only be seeking the new stuff if I decide to do a little shunting plank or similar to play with in the bath.

Phibber.

Edited October 20, 2017 by Mallard60022

[Mallard60022]

Hi Andrew thanks for the edit.

Your pictures.

Oh yes, mine is all Pecoboobs C75 and that is sort of Fatbottom, as C75 Bullshite track was only available with 'decent' sleeper spacing (C & L and Scaleway) at the time of construction and the sleeper difference was just too great. Pecoboobs had yet to be announced.

I had considered spacing the sleepers on the Pecboobs C75 in the visible areas, but after doing one metre I though FTFAGOM and just used it straight from the box.

P 

Edited October 20, 2017 by Mallard60022