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5 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

 

We all make sacrifices in pursuit of our art, Darling. 

 

 

 

 Ahhh....All is revealed.... as the art mistress said.........

It seems to me that the good captain is diverting attention from the freezing out of tales of the Hon. Cuthbertson and his furrin adversaries .... Vanilla Ice  Cream, what ever next?

4 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

A thought provoking quote in today's Guardian from a doctor in Oklahoma re the number of people getting admitted into hospital emergency wards due to taking that horse worming stuff cos the vaccines are too risky:

 

"There’s a reason you have to have a doctor to get a prescription for this stuff, because it can be dangerous,” Dr Jason McElyea, a family doctor in Sallisaw, told KFOR, an Oklahoma TV station.

 

“The [emergency rooms] are so backed up that gunshot victims are having hard times getting to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated."

 

 

 

No mention of the comparative rates of Covid infection and gun shot wounding.  Is the good Doctor Jason a member of the gun lobby perhaps? What is the cost of dose of worming fluid compared with getting a couple of jabs?

Being fully jabbed, and due for a top-up Flu + vaccine jab ,I can say that anti-vaxxers believe some incredible nonsense. 

11 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said:

 

Thats a lovely  pair of wagons, subtly weathered. If the packing case and the shed doors stumped the LM workforce I wonder how they will get on unloading these!   The chap reading is gripped because he is always reading tomorrow’s newspaper!

Agree with comments on wagon weathering, very effective!

I am convinced that the newspaper is permanently open at page three.  

On 30/08/2021 at 08:29, Stubby47 said:

As long as you are still thinking about modelling in your quiet moments.

On 30/08/2021 at 08:44, 2ManySpams said:

 

And sheep, don't ewe forget the sheep.

No need to RAM that down!

On 29/08/2021 at 19:15, Benbow said:

So that's what was in the crate!  

 

Sorry, just catching up--- been away for a couple of days:-

I remember one of those Elliot mainframe computers being installed,  The magic gubbins needed its own "office" with a couple of guys (referred to as Electricians!) in permanent attendance, just to do the works payroll. to justify we lost 3 (female) wage-clerks. When we came to replace it about 8 years later , the information held on the memory tapes was not transferable to the replacement unit!   

Arrived "under it's own steam"  There's a novelty for an AEC Railcar! 

1 hour ago, Andrew P said:

I'm off to the Watercress Line shortly for a few hours at their 50's weekend, I hope to get some pics and Video so will post on here in due course.

 

Never know, I might come home and sell all my Diezziellies and get a fleet of Kettles,  Q1, S15, N, Bulleids?

Go for it! You know it makes sense!

Didn't get to count them, but had an invasion by local farmer's sheep,  they almost cleared my Veg. patch in double quick time!  I say almost cleared because it seems that sheep don't like leeks.

This may not be a statistically valid sample of sheep taste preferences, but I have not seen any rebuttal of the conclusions drawn. 

Without looking, I think that modern (post WW2) maps would show spot heights and contours and enable a profile to be drawn of the surround of the branch line. The heights will not have changed significantly over the last century.  

Having suggested a whole lot of work, and having no knowledge on how to superimpose / transfer the OS map onto your virtual world, I will quietly duck out here!

I've not seen the full specification for the Vevor TV lift... Is there any provision for variable and selective lift height ?

It occurs to me that the VEVOR  TV lift, which Stubby47 refers to in his OP, could be used for the regular problem of crossing the railway room  door opening, by attaching the lifting section to the inside of an IWARD OPENING door. The moveable section of track would be cantilevered from the VEVOR unit at its lowest position allowing it to be lifted clear of adjacent potions of the layout.  

Positional requirements would be that the hinge edge of the door should give clearance for a full 90 degree swing, (iee. be far enough away from the room corner), and sufficient head room for any scenery.  (Andrew P's Viaduct over a deep valley would be an unlikely candidate, although I see that he has an outward opening door so ruling this idea out!

The Falkirk wheel is aversion of the Swing tray elevator used in material handling systems.  Butterley Engineering had a version  in their car park to "stack" employees cars, it did not meet with favour due to the time taken to retrieve a car positioned at the top of the stack !     

29 minutes ago, Graham T said:

You could ask people in here to nominate some favourite photos, or maybe run a few (several!) polls?

Oh, no! It would end in tears (or Blows) . the arguments would last for years ! Far better the suggestion of a LM fan club outsider

13 hours ago, Regularity said:

What the French call a “plaque tournant”.

Why does the French nomenclature seem/sound  so much more elegant that=n the English ?

10 hours ago, Annie said:

Broad Gauge cheer up picture.  'Dragon' South Devon Railway.  The range of company uniforms on display is interesting.  I may have posted this picture before, but I like it so no complaints.

 

Another thing which intrigued me... is the loco (2164 Dragon) standing on small Turntable?   Is that (centre foreground)  upright and angled Bar there for the work force to "lean on" to rotate the T/T ?

Where was the coal stored? And how much could it carry? 

16 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

There you go, now 6,402 signatures!

I didn't look, is there a time limit for signatures to be collected?

 

Now 6403

Petitions are normally open for 6 months, This one was opened in last  December and would appear to be now overdue for closure. Still appears to be open for new signatures,  I certainly got a reply  today showing my addition to the total.   

18 minutes ago, Fishplate said:

 

As far as domestic missing items are concerned, things are not normally in the last place I look. But they can always be found in the first place Mrs Fishplate looks after I 've called in reinforcements 

A friend of my wife calls such an event >>>> " A Man Look" !

15 hours ago, Edwardian said:

14.2mm gauge?  You can even get plain flexi-track according to the 3mm Society website, who will also sell hand-built turnouts as well as components.

 

It cannot surely be beyond the wit of man to put 4mm scale wheels on axles for 14.2mm track? 

 

14.2 gauge flexi track is certainly available, I used it for the track on an aborted model of the 3ft6in gauge funicular at Bridgnorth. 

I was impressed by it.  

Nobody ever explained properly to me where the "Last Place" is to be found. 

I was astounded by the prices for the GEM point levers shown on the Wizard models web site. ( https://www.wizardmodels.ltd/shop/buildings/1001t/  )

Anyone want a 6 lever GEM lever frame ? open to offers in excess of the postage ,( say £3 ) as new, un-used, but at least 40 years old !!

If I find any single point levers they will appear in the Free To Good Home Sales section here on RM web, I'm sure that I must have a few --- But Where ?

29 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Or pull the other one off to match?

Don't give the Grandkids any ideas !

27 minutes ago, aardvark said:

 

The wheels on the train go chuff chuff chuff; chuff chuff chuff; chuff chuff chuff.

That's novel ! It's usually the Chimney that produces such sounds . or do you know of some modern electronic wizardry to divert the steam outlet via the wheel spokes?

And if applied to other transport systems it could transform the experience of travelling on the Intercity 125 !

Just a VERY small amendment needed to the incoming road (Centre LH side in above pictures) of Castleton goods yard .-- Painted centre white lines were not used in pre-grouping eras. not sure when first introduced but likely to have been mid-1930s. Also, in Broad Gauge era would not have been a smooth tarmac type surface.

Sorry... just been inducted into Nit-Pickers Anonymous.

Round the bend ??  I shall refrain from comment..... (people in glass houses.....!)

On a slightly more serious note, 

My first job was in an industrial chemistry Laboratory. We had two fume cupboards either side of  a sink, with a common extractor fan on the lab. roof.  One of my colleagues read of certain gasses being explosive if mixed,--- inevitably suitable liquids were heated in the two fume cupboards, producing the gasses.  Nothing happened so we went for our tea break, followed by a huge bang as the fan on the roof was projected into the air, the sink was also blown off it's fixings depositing a couple of gallons of water on the floor.  As I was very much the Junior' I was not interrogated, but the Senior Chemist was suspended from work for a week for "failing to adequately supervise his staff".   

Some years later  newly married, on Honeymoon in Jersey at a hotel managed by a friend of my Father,  we were taken by the Manager for meal at a swank Restaurant where we met one of his friends who happened to own the Quarry on the island.  When I told him that I had technical qualifications, I was asked if I would like to work in Jersey in charge of the explosives at the Quarry!  I did decline the offer much to my wife's relief !  

Going back half a page, Re. Smallpox vaccinations, ... our classes at senior school were lined up without any option for vaccination, which my memory says was administered by having a small scratch on the upper arm and a serum rubbed onto the wound.  This was in 1946 . I can date it because a house move meant that I changed to a different school in early 1947.