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Still researching for drawings I came across this which made me very pleased. No 8 has a surviving sister. http://www.geoffs-trains.com/Museum/jacktar.html Built after No 6 and before No 7 as far as I can tell, she is the same design, wheel base, wheel diameter, chassis, boiler and tank (all the cabs were different on 6,7and 8 anyway and then rebuilt differently again). 1159 was built as 3ft gauge and converted to 3ft 6inch. How exciting. Planning models after I've cleared some current projects. Tom Edit: how bizarre, looking at the contact details this is the same Geoff as in the OP.

I believe clips 3 and 4 are No 8. No 8 was built with a full cab, 6 and 7 had full cabs added later and are slightly different in the rear spectacle plate being originally built with only basic weather boards. Midland Red with black and white lining until at least 1935, then green according to some old photos in a friends book. I have some good side views and I know the drivers were 2ft 9" so will one day draw them up. Would be interested in any drawings? 6mile trip should allow me to measure the WB. Tom

Magic isn't it. Tom

Hi. She spent many years outside the Manor House in Kettering, I remember climbing all over her. She was moved in about '77 the flange marks she left in the road from the move could still be seen in the late 90's. She then spent some years (as my memory serves me) in a field near Holcott with a collection of traction engine but is now in good hand at Market Harborough. Can't wait to see her finished shes a very pretty engine. There's almost no sign the line ever existed but these lines were so temporary that almost all signs were gone within a year of closure. There are still odd depressions in the fields if you look closely and some of the bridge parapets still exist, weird out of place small sections of wall either side on some of the smaller roads. I live within walking distance of where the line was and work very close to the old furnace site. There is one field where the site of the old track bed is clear. But all gone :-( except for Number 8 :-) Need to make a visit as I want to model 6,7, and 8. Go here for colour film of No 8 and sisters 13:55 to 17:37 massive modeling opportunities ... enjoy! Tom

A fellow bear buddy used to fire them, I'll ask him what his routes were. I keep telling him to write it all down. They used to get stuck a lot, Midland policy endured, add wagons till it wouldn't move then take one off. He has a story about getting stuck across the level crossing at Wellingborough London Road. T

######. My mate pre ordered one of these 2 years ago. I suppose it's about to arrive on his door step. Why is the worlds biggest Garrat fan grumpy? Because he asked me to convert it to EM, and I said I would. Well, when I say EM, I mean origional EM, 18mm to run on a model of Wellingborough London road bult from the map. T :-(

Q: WHAT DO YOU DO WITH 365 USED CONDOMS? A: Melt them down, make a tyre, and call it a Goodyear.

THREE DOGS AT THE VET Three dogs were sitting in the waiting room at the vet's when they struck up a conversation. The Black Labrador turned to the yellow Labrador and said "So why are you here?" The yellow Lab replied, "I'm a pisser. I piss on everything….. the sofa, the curtains, the carpet, the cat, the kids. But the final straw was last night when I pissed in the middle of my owner's bed." The black Lab said, "So what’s the vet going to do?" "Gonna cut my nuts off" came the reply from the yellow Lab. "They reckon it'll calm me down a bit." The Yellow Lab then turned to the Black Lab and asked "So why are you here?" The Black Lab said, "I'm a digger. I dig under fences, dig up flowers and trees, I dig just for the hell of it, just can't stop. When I'm inside, I dig up the carpets. But I went over the line last night when I dug a great big hole in my owners' couch." "So what are they going to do to you?" the Yellow Lab enquired. "Looks like I'm losing my nuts too," the dejected Black Lab said. The Black Lab then turned to the Great Dane and asked, "Why are you here? "I'm a humper," said the Great Dane. "I'll hump absolutely anything. I'll hump the cat, a pillow, the table, fence posts, a leg, whatever. I just want to hump everything I see." Yesterday my owner had just got out of the shower and was bending down to dry her toes, and I just couldn't help myself. I hopped on her back and started hammering away." The Black and the Yellow Labs exchanged a sad glance and said, "So, it's nuts off for you too, eh ?" The Great Dane said, "No, apparently I'm here to get my nails clipped !"

Woooo, steady! "What do you mean by "run Peco"?" It's called an example, eg if all your friends run scale 7, then maybe you should consider scale 7 = greater running possibilities and better evenings.. If all your mates still run coarse scale, it stands to reason that modelling something that doesn't fit may limit those opportunities? The OP asked for alternatives and choice? "There is NO difference between the wheels" A huge and massive assumption that manufactures use any form of good quality control which very undesirably, a lot do not. "Some folks" I am not some folk. I am someone sick of changing wheel sets that good people have inadvertently spent a lot of money on that are intolerant of even average laid track. Their engines now run straight and true what ever scale or standards they choose to model. "determined to find difficulties where there are none" Please state clearly where I have said there are any difficulties related to O-MF? Please let me know where I have said anywhere that I have said there are any difficulties with any of the standards? Let me know where I have said F/S won't reliably run on O-MF?

The beauty of O gauge is that it is want you want. I'm all for higher standards, better looks etc with compatibility within reason. But if you want your show off engines on other builders tracks, reliably pulling 50 minerals for hours on end outside whilst you sup a beer and equally shunting a single up and down a couple of feet of track then some thought is needed. It depends what you want.Reflect upon yourself and what you want to do cuz a day out on another layout watching others test their locos is a bit boring if yours won't run, not experience but I have frequently observed it. Fine scale covers a broad range of sins and most molded wheel sets (and some that claim to be turned) have eccentricity and run out figures well outside the reliability stakes. (If anyone would like to quote me wheel eccentric and run out tollerences please be obliged, be very interested). Got loads of mates with long stretches of peco? ... then run peco etc. T Please don't flame me.

Went to a party, in the corner was the fatest, most alcoholic transvestite. But he looked so content, not giving a fig about what people thought? I struck up a conversation and asked what was his secret? He said, "My secret ... eat, drink and be Mary". Lady goes to the doctor. "Doctor I've got this terrible problem". "Let me see" says the Doctor. She lifts up her skirt and there's the end of a lettuce leaf sticking out of her pants. "I can't see that's a problem" says the Doctor. She replies, "Oh, that's just the tip of the iceberg". Man goes to Doctor. "I've got a problem" he says. "Let me see" says the Doctor. He drops everything and there's a steering well on his old fella. "Gosh" says the Doctor, "that looks bad". The man replies, "Oh, you don't know half of it, it's driving me nuts".

Bloke walks into a pub and asks for a pint of anything except Stella. Barman asks, "What's wrong with Stella?" Bloke says, "I had 12 pints of Stella last night and when I came round I was f**king Skint." Barman says, "12 pints of anything costs about the same." Bloke replies, "Skint's my dog."

A pharmacist walked into his shop to find a man leaning against the wall. "What's wrong with him?", he asked his assistant. "He came in for cough syrup, but I couldn't find any so I gave him an entire box of laxatives." "You idiot" said the chemist, "You can't treat a cough with laxatives." "Of course you can" the assistant replied, "Look at him.........he daren't cough now!!"

Gorgeous red head goes to the Doctors, she complains that she hurts all over! She touches her arm and yelps in pain, touches her knee and shouts louder, touches her head and lets out a scream. The doctor leans over ans says, "you're not not a natural red head are you?. "No she replies". "In fact" says the doctor, "you're natural colour is blonde?". "Yes", she says, "how did you know that?" "well", says the doctor, "I believe you have broken your finger".

Am I allowed to say breasts? Whats the difference between breasts and model trains ....... Nothing! Designed for children, played with by men.

Two cannibals catch a clown and eat him. One turns to the other and says, " this tastes a bit funny". Two nuns get attacked by a vampire. One chucks holy water at him, no effect, the other starts praying for divine intervention, no effect. One says, "I know, show him your cross?" The other screams at the vampire, " why don't you just f?£$ off". Two cows in the corner of a field. "Hey", says one, "Aren't you worried about this mad cow disease?". "Not me", replies the other, "can't catch it". "Hows that then?", says the first..... "Cuz I'm a tractor". Two good friends out for a walk. They pass through a farm yard and when are suddenly separated. After a short search One of them finds the other in a barn committing an unspeakable act with one of the machines. "What on earth are you doing" he says. Very Embarrassed his friend replies, "me and the wife are having some trouble lately, it's been so bad I've even been to see the doctor about it". "What did he say?", asks the other friend. The red faced man says, "he told me I've got do something to a tractor".

Man inherits a stuffed dog, take it to antiques road show. "Oh yes", says the expert. "William and Dobson, London, a fine example of taxidermy, circa 1890, have you any idea what this would fetch in good condition?". The mans replies, ... "sticks?".

Unlikely. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRIANG-Hornby-R351-CLASS-EM2-ELECTRA-LOCO-MINT-BOXED-/230586957471?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item35b00dbe9f

Wandering around a traction engine rally recently there was an older lady in a caravan with a tray of old Hornby stuff. On it was a well played with scuffy lizzie for £3, some other rubbish and an CKD EM2 Green "Pandora". Now mines been heavily played with (by me) in it's 50 odd years, this was mint, I mean mint, pantographs, everything, the only blemish was a very very small scratch across one of the numbers. I picked it up and she approached me looking for a deal, I knocked her down a little and made an offer which she accepted. Being a nice guy I handed it back to her and suggested she put it away, and try ebay and suggested a guide price. I really hope she got a good price, a little more than the £3 she was asking.

It seems to go in phases. Some silly prices recently, but a year ago I got 4 boxed O gauge reefers, fitted with Kd's for £1 each. Can never tell whats going to happen. T