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As the sun was setting behind the mountain, I saw a photo opportunity and had to run and grab the imaging device. The newly finished barn area really looks the business in pure sunlight. It should be noted that the D49 "The Cotswold" hasn't moved since my last photo shoot 2 weeks ago. I rather like this combo of early BR steamers with teak stock. Squatch.

Thankyou! No, I hadn't seen that before!! I have been very busy of late with other things and am in need of such great inspiration. My son is coming in two weeks and is really very good with techy stufff so we'll be making some more Queensbury videos and I must make time to get as much finished on it before we film actual trains moving etc. Regards Shaun

No trains but this is right adjacent to the station.

Oh, there’s lots of opportunities like that! How about 3, waiting to depart Exchange ? There's two here where the lines temporarily terminate. ...and two here waiting to depart for Exchange. The D49 has a passenger service of mainline stock which will be given priority The other train, a freight was quite lengthy and thus required class 4 power. There's also a couple around the back of Bradford which have been sitting there for a couple of weeks.. The J50 is on the wrong road it would seem but is likely to set that Twin set back into the station at some point. Theres even two more in front of the last two! Another V2 ready to move off from Goathland before the GN tank can resume shunting. Squatch

Just chilling this evening in the garage with YouTube hooked up to the HiFi after a grueling day on my knees laying floors and thought it was time we had some trains on here!

Hi Chris. About building sizes. Most modern houses (which we're almost all familiar with) are all very much the same size, average sized rooms with 8-foot ceilings! Older buildings are different. Houses of the poor could be downright cramped, especially the older ones built when folk were much shorter. Our Belgian cottage Cira1776 was one such dwelling, when we viewed it, the oak beams were only 5'6" clearance! (Some of which had succumbed to gravity in the middle too). Later buildings had taller ceilings which got taller with wealth and status. I'm pretty sure that Mr. Prices house, given his status would have been quite grand! Imagine having those interviews with the locals in one of Mr. Prices reception rooms. The voices echoing around the room and the clink of china cups on china saucers. Wouldn't you also have needed an interpreter for some of the older locals? Pugh, Pugh, Barney Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb.😁 Great stuff as always!

Don'tcha just love crawl spaces. Black widow spiders, rodent droppings and scorpions hiding in every crevice. Ya can't run either, it takes a certain breed or some kind of madness to go down there...! Sometimes ya just gotta man up and get on with the job and it's always something like a blocked sewer pipe or wiring where you have to cut the power and face the job on your back with a dodgy flashlight.

Here in Oregon every house seems to have that problem 😄

This next tree is worth a post all of its own. (Oh no, we're on the next page and he's still on about trees). I've had this white metal tree for ages and don't remember where it came from. It had to be soldered up and after bending it I gave it a coat of primer. Then, after the usual dogbedstuffin-n-darkbrownrattlecanpaint treatment, I added Noch light green leaves. It makes quite a convincing ash tree. Still needs a little paint on the trunk and branches etc. Here it is planted behind the new farmhouse on Queensbury which seemed like a suitable place seeing that there was a void there and we have two behind our house. I'll probably go on to make it a brother next. Squatch.

That’s hilarious! I wouldn’t have got it though, wasn’t using Pythagoras really but still wouldn’t have clicked. I’ve used Pythagoras to check posts etc. on job sites are set perfect and that usually raises questions or comments from the crew like WTF is he doing? Too many carpenters rely on their tape rule far too much and waste much time and make many mistakes, especially in the land of feet inches and fractions there of. Being of 1966 vintage I was one of the lucky ones to have learned imperial and metric. It has the advantage that one can give rough estimates of volume in imperial by converting the measurements to metric, do the math and convert the Liters into kilos and back to pounds in one’s head! Baffles all my American homies!

You know when you're watching a film like Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny for instance, and when the train comes along it's a 9F. How come the Nazis have a 9F, they weren't built until 54! And with mk1 coaches to boot. Truth is, most people wouldn't know one train from another. This is my philosophy when it comes to trees. Some trees we need a prototype like an old oak, some silver birch or a pine (like the one next to Goathland's water tower). For the most part especially when there's a clump of them or a small copse we can get away with overlooking the detail. This is where my rosemary trees fit in. This week I have been trying to perfect them. The process is quite simple, snip away at each stage until it looks like a tree and use different adhesive for each step. In this line up we have, from left to right… Bare branch, rubberized horsehair fixed with super tacky glue, dog bed stuffing on spray glue, blast of camo brown, the snipped look and flock fixed with hairspray. I doubt that I'll get these done this evening after such a productive day outdoors. Squatch.

Have read that about a dozen times now J and assume that it's a reference to an old movie which I'm not familiar with or something? The only live action we get around here has to do with squirrels, deer and nesting birds! (Apart from the occasional illicit marijuana bust, but that's got like covid. Nobodies concerned anymore!). Regards Shaun.

Still on the subject of trees (this whole page will probably be about tress). This morning while sitting on the front steps drinking coffee and pondering the height of our cedars, I came up with a simple method of gauging their height. My barn is 80 feet long. I stood back perpendicular to one corner holding a rule until the barn measured 16" at almost full arm's length. Thus every 2"=10'. With me so far? Then counting the paces walked to the corner of the building. 31 paces. If I now find a tree and walk away in a straight line 31 paces and hold out the ruler at the same arm's length, I can roughly tell the height of any tree! First, I measured one of our beautiful Oregon Mountain Ashes. Approximately 70' or 21.3M. Armed with a longer folding rule I went and did the same with the tallest cedar. 130' or 40M! Lastly the pine behind the barn. 165' or 50M. A 1/76 scale model of it would be a whapping 66cm! Squatch. Hope that you found that interesting.