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Commercial currently running here: https://youtu.be/4cQ8UY_szxA

It’s more just a single sag. J. Parker Lamb, who took the photographs in that collection, used that location a lot. There is at least one more photograph taken there on the page linked to above.

Apologies for quoting my own post, but I’ve found a couple of pictures of these combinations. I can’t link to the individual photos, but they are the 10th and 11th pictures on this page: http://www.railphoto-art.org/collections/lamb/group-six/

A few weeks ago, I posted some pictures of the IOCO industrial spur in Port Moody. I said that there were new ties and tie plates dumped at various points along the track, and that I thought there was going to be a program of tie replacement. Turns out, there was more than that. It seems that the whole spur was relaid. I don't know if the relaying was done with CWR (I was going somewhere, and didn't have time to check in detail) but the rail lengths are certainly longer than previously. The old, jointed rail has been lifted in long lengths, not unbolted and lifted as separate rails. Is this common practice? There's also been some upgrading of things other than the track itself. For example, this dilapidated timber pedestrian/bike crossing: has been replaced with precast concrete panels:

Red Dwarf’s “Tikka to Ride” episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikka_to_Ride (JFK kills himself, amongst other things.)

An honest and brave engineer has died: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/allan-mcdonald-dead/2021/03/10/572bd0d6-81a3-11eb-ac37-4383f7709abe_story.html

So, you've been watching "What We Did on Our Holiday" then?

Going by the shape and Dumfries shed’s allocation in 1965, it’s probably an NBL diesel-hydraulic shunter, class D2/10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_D2/10

Scotland as a single region? That would not be very specific. While it is correct to say a SR ‘Z’ class tank worked in Scotland, using that information to justify one shunting a model of Thurso would not be accurate! I agree with what’s been said about doing prototype research yourself if ‘compatibility’ matters to you. A lot of people start off using ‘Rule 1’, even if unintentionally, and many are quite happy to continue in that way. If people want their models to become more prototypical, there is plenty of information out there to guide them, certainly much more than could be conveyed by a single ‘region’.

They definitely worked at places within 60 miles of each other in that livery, and without stretching things much at all, could quite possibly have met. You can look it up - an exercise in prototype research.

“Making History” by Stephen Fry. A different Hitler “what if”. (Actually a “what if not”.)

How about this: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2326789 401B is actually operating as a B-unit - the cab windows are plated over. I think the trailing Missouri Pacific units are SD50s. When the MKT got their first GP40s, they often ran them in GP40/F-unit/GP40 combinations. There are plenty of pictures of such combos in books, but I can’t find one online.

Apparently, our town is the fifth most common subject of searches on ‘houses for sale’ sites in Canada!

With ‘Get Me to the Church on Time’ on the stereo?

I once, somewhere along the south coast in England, got a lift in the reverse of that - a big US station wagon, converted to right hand drive, and fitted with a small British straight four. It also had two gearboxes, in line and with the second one ‘back to front’. The guy driving this had to be very busy with gear levers anywhere but on a long, straight unrestricted road.

Notice the track arrangement that would allow the train to make a sharper left (their direction) turn off the street: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/765819/

The search does depend on the terms used, but search for “white lines platform” in “All content” and “Content titles only” and you should get only 3 hits, all quite relevant.

OK - what you’ve modelled is correct for the prototype! I have to say I’m surprised, especially since the nearest poles on the left side of the cutting appear to have the push brace on the downslope side.

Did you try using the ‘Search’ feature? (Not being sarcastic, it’s a genuine question.) It can be very useful when looking for a specific subject, with a careful choice of search term(s).

Unless you have pictures showing the situation you’ve modelled with that pole, I’d suggest the spars are the wrong way round. The sloping spar is a ‘push brace’, so called because it leans against the vertical spar to stop the vertical moving the way gravity wants it to go. If you look at the prototype photo, the push braces (especially the nearer one) are stopping the poles going down the embankment.

Today's walk was round Bedwell Bay. Quite cool, with a bit of wind and snow flurries on the mountains in the distance: There are 6 known shipwrecks in the bay, which is about 1 mile long: - a WW2 subchaser, later converted to a fish packer - a WW2 minesweeper - a coastal freighter, built in Sunderland in 1890 - a small wooden schooner, not identified - an unidentified 60-metre wooden ship, thought to have sunk in the early 1900s - a modern steel barge

There was a get-together of T-Bird owners at a nearby park this afternoon: There was filming going on nearby. I wonder if these were appearing. One was on the end of a parking line, and easy to photograph separately: The others were more difficult to shoot:

Don’t know - he’s still en route.

There was a discussion earlier on here about their allocations in Scotland:

There were WD 2-10-0s used on the Cairnryan Military Railway but, yes, not on BR lines. Jubilees were regular performers (daily for many years) Dumfries-Stranraer from the installation of a 60ft turntable at Stranraer in 1939 until the withdrawal of Kingmoor’s last three (including 45588) in 1965. In my opinion (others may differ) the description of locomotives (particularly G&SWR locos) in some picture captions is the weakest point of an otherwise excellent book.