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Morning Song - Black Crows

1 hour ago, Schooner said:

It was making its first visit to Scotland at the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway 'Autumn Steam Gala' and is seen hauling two vintage Caledonian Railway carriages at Kinneil. Notice the top-hatted gentleman on the footplate in this Victorian scene. Date: 25 October 2015

Removed - wrong picture.

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Scott

51 minutes ago, grahame said:

 

Oooo, now that would be interesting and very welcome (at least to me).

 

 

Plus one.

Although I have been look at the 2mm Assoc and Worlsey Works etches...

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Scott.

2 minutes ago, Bri.dolan said:

Apethorn junction 

 

regards 

 

Brian 

Thanks!!

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Scott

If built, the return loop station would take its inspiration from this layout (I can't remember the name of it just now, but I think it's an O gauge layout..:

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Scott

21 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

That's where the return loop scores, if one has room for it. Ideally a double return loop with a double junction as a scenic feature, then much of the loop itself can be part of the modelled railway. 

 

Might work best in 7.25" gauge, with a double track main line round the estate.

I posted this rough concept earlier in the thread, but I'm sure it will have been lost in the great photo pause. This was my idea for a user friendly Minories "system" with an out and back "fiddle Yard":

11 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

The freight moves using Carflats - usually for mobving new vehicles from the factory to distributors in major centres - used freight brakevans.  This only changed when brakevans ceased to be required on fully fitted freight trains.

Thanks, that's very helpful.

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Scott.

Hello,

I have a question with regard to Carflat trains, new vehicle transport as opposed to MOtorail services.

I am modelling the period '62-63 and am using the NGS/Farish Carflat A to model a train.  At this time the guard would need to be accommodated in a vehicle at or towards the rear of the train, unless I've got things very wrong in my head.  Would this have utilised a BG of either pre or post-nationalisation origin, or would a goods brake van have been used?

The only photograph I have in my collection that shows a whole train is in "Last Years of the Waverley Route", David Cross, but the train is so long that it is impossible to tell what the guard's vehicle is, although it does look like a coach rather than a brake van.  I'm struggling to find other images on line that show the guard accommodation, but I may be using the wrong search words.

Any help on this would be gratefully appreciated.

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Scott.

I visited on a two day stopover in Los Angeles in 2019.  We stayed at a hotel at Tehachapi itself and then headed down to the loop one morning en-route Bakersfield to meet a friend.

It's a wonderful location, with good access and plenty of good angles, although sitting in a valley, the sun takes a while to get over the ridgeline.  Traffic flow is quite high as well.

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Scott.

This is an excellent initiative. I always read your explanations and reminiscences with great care and enthusiasm. 
 

Please continue to make these posts when you can.  
 

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Scott. 

You’re a big girl now - Bob Dylan

39 minutes ago, Classsix T said:

Yup, a penny shy of ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR of your English pounds. That's just Vice City remember.

 

C6T.

You actual what?!

Incredulous of The Mearns.

On 14/02/2023 at 02:40, lezz01 said:

I would say that it looks very good Anthony.

Regards Lez.

Agreed. It does!

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Scott.

On 30/01/2023 at 21:55, PaulRhB said:

Fire up the Quattro!

Would it help if we had a list of what Accurascale offer/have offered in OO gauge?:

Locomotives

Class 30/31

Class 37

Class 50

Class 55

Class 89

Class 92

GWR 7800 Manor

Coaches

BR Mark 1 Non-gangway Suburban - BS, BT, CL, S, SLO, T, TO

BR Mark 2b - BFK, FK, QXA (RTC Test Vehicles), SK, TSO

BR Mark 2c - BFK, BSO, FK, FO, SK, SO, TSO, TSO(T)

Mark 5 - Caledonian Sleeper

Mark 5a - TransPennine Express

GWR Siphon G

Wagons

CDA China Clay

Cemflo/PCV

KAV/Coil A

Cutdown HYA Hopper

FNA-D Nuclear Carrier

HOP24 HUO

HYA-IIA Hopper

IIA Biomass

JSA Coil Carrier

KUA Nuclear Carrier

MDO/MDV 21 Ton Mineral

HAA Hopper

HBA Hopper

HCA Hopper

HDA Hopper

HMA Hopper

MHA Ballast Wagon

NER 20T Hopper

NER 4T Chaldron

PCO17B/C PCA Cement

PFA Container Flat

PTA/JTA+JUA Tippler

SR Banana Van

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Scott.

Adhering to Fran’s request for shrinking of OO models already on their books:
 

For me, I’d like to see the HUO to Accurascale standards along with the 21T Mineral. 

I’d also buy a skinhead 31. 
 

although too modern for me, the Mark 2s I think would be a particularly attractive proposition for the N Gauge community, esspecially if released in multiple versions at once. It would probably make sense to do different sub types (C, D, etc) from the Farish tooling. 

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Scott. 

8 hours ago, Ron Ron Ron said:

Why shoot down the balloon with an air-to-air missile, blowing its payload to smithereens, when the F-22 has a 20mm cannon?

I’m purely speculating and am probably well wide of the mark, but wouldn’t putting holes in the balloon envelope, result in a descent rate that would allow the payload to be recovered, reasonably intact, even if damaged, rather than having to search the sea and sea bed for fragmented wreckage, scattered over a wider area and risk not finding everything that came down?

 

 

 

 

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The AIM-9 has a fragmentation warhead, and a proximity detonator, the effect being rather like a FlaK shell, so I’m not sure it would Be blown to smithereens. It’s interesting though, the seeker on an AIM-9 is infrared so the object must have been putting out a decent heat signature. 
 

On top of that I’d suggest a guns attack would involve the interceptor having to close to a much closer range, potentially endangering it if the ballon reacted with an unpredictable flight path after it had been hit. 
 

just my thoughts. 
 

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Scott. 

4 minutes ago, 03060 said:

 

 

 

I keep a rough record of WHL photographers on Flickr in a notebook, but can't always then 'refind' images that I know that I've seen before as I can't remember who they were by .....

 

Regards,

Ian.

Flickr has a feature that allows you to designate any picture a "favourite".  This will then be remembered in a "favourites" folder of sorts.

To the bottom right of the image you are looking at, there is a star shape. If you click on that the image is placed in your "favourites" to be viewed whenever you fancy.

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Scott.

2 hours ago, Stevie said:

Starter For 10 can you name the cockpit,

 

 

Bristol Blenheim?

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Scott. 

Worth every penny, I'd say...

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Scott.

16 hours ago, Revolution Ben said:

 

That is subjective!  I had read that they were uncomfortable but having travelled from Exeter to Paddington and London to York and Newcastle on them I found the seats are very comfortable - nice and firm.

 

The ride quality is poorer than Mk3 stock though which, for me, is unsurpassed to me in terms of overall ride comfort.

 

cheers

 

Ben A.

Montrose to Kings Cross (in one go), multiple times, and I couldn't see what all the fuss was about in honesty. I actually found it was better for the posture than many other train seats and certainly nowhere near as uncomfortable as all the horror stores led me to believe.

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Scott.

21 minutes ago, Classsix T said:

Topic discussion from here: 

It looks like you will Scott. All of the DLC you already have migrates over to TSW3 but it won't have the weather upgrades etc.

 

C6T.

 

 

Ah. I missed your commentary back in August. Thanks.

However...*sigh*

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Scott.

I've been out of the loop with TSW on PS4.  Wots...uh the deal with TSW3 ? I have TSW2 installed. Do I need to shell out  for Mk3 should I want to purchase the upcoming Edinburgh - Glasgow Express package? Anyone know?

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Scott.

This will be an unpopular view, I appreciate, but it looks like the room is too small for what you're trying to achieve, not helped by the requirement to change height.

Depending on the length of your trains would this be a potential solution, a train lift?

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Scott.

5 minutes ago, DenysW said:

Yes, but not to a meaningful gradient  (compared to fluctuations due to the weather) over the range experienced taking a train from London to Aberdeen.

Understood.

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Scott.