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Seasonal G scale in the garden: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/758717/

I’ve just come across these posts and, coincidentally, have just watched a program on the discovery of the wrecks of the Franklin expedition’s ships. Both ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’ were fitted with boilers and mechanisms from withdrawn locomotives of the London and Greenwich Railway: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/175812111X13033852943147 (Edit - apologies. I found the two posts I quoted on page 4 of this topic, read a bit further and didn’t see any reply to them, so thought I was posting new information.)

And five of them had a spell in Colombia, too! (They got homesick and came back.) See details of 101 class on this page: http://drgw.free.fr/WP&YR/Engines/Diesel/Diesel_en.htm

“It is fair to say this locomotive is a beast, probably the largest 0-6-0 locomotives at the time.” A mere flyweight! The G&SWR Drummond 279 class of 1913 was longer (just) but heavier (3 tons engine only, 12 tons engine plus tender). Well done for persevering, and making such a nice job of it. You do realize, since you’ve done this, that Hornby will now introduce an RTR version to go with their J15?

So what can you burn? If anything?

Just to add - Yeadon’s says “The application of Departmental numbers took many and varied forms, even when done by the same shed” (!!)

Ah, but do they do ‘scraps’?

And you can understand why, given whatever they chose would be running on a preserved railway, probably a branch line. The J36 is route availability 3, the J37 was RA8, below only things like Pacifics and V2s of ex-LNER engines. Interesting that the choice of ex-Caley 0-6-0s went the other way, with the bigger/heavier 812 class being preserved. In my opinion, a Jumbo would have been more representative of Caley freight engines. And I agree that the lack of a Caley 4-4-0 (even a Pickersgill, if not a Dunalastair) is pretty sad.

Not particularly - any day between here and January 20th.

I know this is a jokes topic, and I know the several police officers and ex-police officers on here will have personal experience of situations like this, but I do know second-hand of one Scottish cop’s reaction to this situation. He was on foot patrol near Glasgow city centre and saw someone finish a can of beer and throw the empty on the ground. Ignoring the drinking in a public place, he pointed out to the guy that there was a litter bin just yards away and suggested he pick the can up and put it there. The guy bent down over the can, then came up with a hatchet in his hand, pulled out of an inside pocket. The cop, who is 6 foot 4 and well built, laid him out with a single punch. (At the trial, the defence lawyer argued “excessive force” - only force allowed being a truncheon, drawn at the order of a senior officer or when in personal danger. It didn’t work.)

Sorry, Ian, but this song title comes to mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3fRBzRngdc&list=RDw3fRBzRngdc&start_radio=1

Each to his own, I suppose!

Our two and a half year old grandson is becoming a very good ‘speaker’. That’s different from a ‘talker’ - he is very correct in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Talking to his mum yesterday, she told us he had actually corrected her grammar earlier in the day - and he had been right!

A compact fluorescent bulb in a bathroom burned out last week - almost literally. The base scorched and produced a really strong smell which persisted for several days. Having been replacing bulbs with LEDs as they burned out for several years, I decided to finish the job. (I’ve not had to replace a single LED in that time.) I took all the remaining compact fluorescents out and replaced them with LEDs. The power saving on one bulb isn’t too significant, but in total they must make a difference.

That sounds like the plate which protects the AWS gear from a swinging coupling, colloquially known as a “bang plate” or “dangler”. It would be absent before a loco was fitted with AWS, present once AWS was fitted. If it’s there, other AWS fittings should also be present - battery and reservoirs. Edit - sorry, that doesn’t help with your question about whether it’s available as a spare.

What well-known establishment is located in Dartmouth?

Mike, if you’re interested in the Franklin expedition, you might like this book: Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot - Ken McGoogan https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Passage-Story-Arctic-Forgot/dp/0786711566 Rae was a very accomplished Arctic explorer who was the first European to learn of the fate of the Franklin expedition from Inuit. He made public the evidence of possible cannibalism and was shunned as a result, largely through the efforts of Franklin’s widow.

True - I had forgotten about them. I think I blanked them when they were painted in those weird colour schemes! It’s good to see them now both in the colour schemes they were withdrawn in. (I would still like a Derby-built one in “66 district grunge”, though.)

I’d rather have a Fairburn. I knew them better, there were more of them than there were Stanier 2-cylinders, and there is already a Stanier 2-6-4T preserved, although it is a 3-cylinder. How about a member of the first LNER standard class to be built, the last LNER class to remain intact, and a class of which a couple of members were the last Gresley-designed locos to remain in BR service - the J38s?

Where do you carry the wood on a wood-fired double Fairlie: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_and_Nipissing_Railway_-_Fairlie-patent_double-boilered_locomotive.jpg