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    The 00 Wishlist Polls 2013-2018 - Items Announced and/or Made

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

    Posted · Edited by dana
    clarifacation

     

    Rail-mounted Gun: Oxford. We wouldn’t have seen it as fitting the rest of our portfolio. 

    this statement is a puzzler . 

    Poll Team  has forgotten about  this

     

    2015  most wanted

    244 Pigeon baskets 

     

    It is in the 2015 lineside and infrastructure category.

     

    if we are going to have 2013-2018 announced or made list  then  the  Bachmann  009 welsh slate water tank , coaling facility , lineside hut , boiler house      announced should be included as part of the lineside and infrastructure  category for 2013-2018 announced or made. this will help if the Poll Team do decide to include this category again for  the 2019 poll.  

    Hornby 2019 Speculation

    in Hornby

    Major fire at Newton Abbot Carriage shed

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    Seems to be standard procedure these days.  Got a listed building the local authorities and locals won't let you touch getting in the way of your get rich quick commercial/housing/granny ghetto scheme?  Discretely pass a few quid, a box of matches and a can of petrol to the local NED's and let nature take its course.

     

    Oh dear, it has accidentally burnt down beyond saving, ah well, never mind, send in the bulldozer...

     

    Numerous old cotton mills etc have gone that way

    err not necessarily is that the case 

    https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-council-files-petition-against-owners-of-fire-damaged-14-million-heritage-home

     

    other fire damage houses that hit the news in BC

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4794683/3-9m-burnt-down-house-in-vancouver-won-t-take-long-to-sell-agent-says-1.4796303

     

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/burned-down-house-in-vancouver-listed-for-nearly-4m-1.4062003

    BRM May '18 + NEW-LOOK Digital Edition

    in BRM Magazine

    Posted · Edited by dana

    math is not my strong point even though i live in a mechanical family .   google to the rescue 

     

    Interesting. I think if I'd have prepared that I'd either have dimensions it:

    A. In full size in feet and inches as that would make it easy to convert to 2mm/4mm/7mm to the foot scales, or
    B. In 4mm model scale in millimetres as this is likely to be the most useful for the majority of the readership.

    Fractions of inches in 7mm scale but reproduced in 4mm on the page is probably likely to confuse folk.

     

    math is not my strong point even though i live in a mechanical family .   google to the rescue 

     

    https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/length/inch-to-mm.html

    https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/length/mm-to-cm.html

     

    you can even do fractions  in the links provided and it will  round  out  the conversion to the nearest decimal 

     

    example  7 3/16 inches is 182.5625 mm

    BRM May '18 + NEW-LOOK Digital Edition

    in BRM Magazine

    Posted · Edited by dana

    I was discussing a few options for digi readers who want to print plans out with Andy Y earlier. There are issues with PDF as once downloaded, we can be sure they will be posted on the web and all those "I bought the magazine because of the plans" posts will stop. There needs to be a away around it though. We'll keep thinking.

    could it not be like scale scenes where they have a couple of free kits every so often  and the rest of the time you pay to download the kits . this way it funds the HRMS  still supports and inspires the  hobby. . articles and plans from others  will be able to be preserved and inspire future  generations.  i have been going through old RM'S and other mags that i have accumulated.   . I have been coming across a lot of old drawings of station buildings and so forth . I  have come to the conclusion that i am not likely to be scratch build them but on the other hand it  would be  great as reference points be sides photos  on the  drawn colours of the stations or line side buildings while reviewing the latest resin building from Hornby or hattons for example . the old days of keeping every published copy  of articles  for 50 years is shring as more and more  mags are being sold to  companys thag have ten or more mags

    River Kwai and Laos

    in Railways of Asia

    Posted

    yes they do .  3 types  of trains  . i took the hundred baht trains  becuase  i went all the way to nam tok and   hired a taxi for 600 baht  (with my dad ) to hell fire pass .      i cuaght the local bus  back to kanchanaburi and then took the train at 3 pm to bangkok the next day .

    Do they have first class on the Kanchanaburi train, I thought it was third class only. The fare of 100 ThB suggests that too.

     


     

    Mind you, that interior looks quite luxurious compared to a few years ago

     

    attachicon.gif3rdclass_inside.jpg

    Vietnam :

    This is the bamboo train i mom and dad  rode on and it was on the original line  featured in traveling with my father . a millionaire  bought  the Row and built a new line parallel. 

     

    http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/85334-old-bamboo-train/

    BRM Spring '18 + FREE DVD

    in BRM Magazine

    Posted

    . I'm not interested in hot travel mates   in the middle of Phil Parker and  Andy p   @ North Norfolk  Railway interview and unable to get rid of it . Cant blame  lovely ladies in  Surrey BC looking for love while traveling and signing up but  not in the middle of my source for Modeling  British railways .

    River Kwai and Laos

    in Railways of Asia

    Posted

    Just been to the hell fire pass on the Thai Burma railway . Verry moving site. Took the train to Nam Tok and then by pickup to the site . After visiting the site I took a bus back to kanchanaburi where I visited the museums and cemeteries the next day. After visiting the sites I took the train back too Bangkok . Am curently in Laos , I'll post updates soon.

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    BRM October 2017

    in BRM Magazine

    Posted

     i don't know why Steve 1980 ,but when i posted  that comment my statement was true but i rechecked it in pocket mags( my digital subscription ) ad both articles are fine .  did my  digital issue  not down load properly the first time ?

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