railsquid

Wonderful thing, the internet. I've acquired a few random "Rule 1" models only to later accidentally stumble upon a photograph validating their presence on my layout.

This also works the other way, sometimes stuff goes up at a price way below the normal market value, I've got a few bargains that way. Personally never had any problems with second-hand N gauge from Widnes/Liverpool, a large part of my British fleet comes from there. It does help if you study the photos carefully and know what bits should be on the loco.

I thought it might be Centro at first glance, but the green doesn't look "strong" enough, the lower stripe seems thicker than on the Centro livery and it doesn't have the yellow square Centro logo panels on the sides. I wonder if it's just the normal "Provincial" pale blue which has become discoloured? This is what the Centro livery looked like in my memory: 150122 Barnetby by British Rail 1980s and 1990s, on Flickr

Tokyo, 1990. I think I've seen this in slightly later videos too.

Some rather blurry film footage from Snow Hill at about 5:18 here:

A pair of orange-painted Class 50s hauling a passenger train down the middle of an urban road? For certain values of "Class 50".

Came across this Flickr group: British Export Trains

A bit late to the party but that's a Berlin tram (refurbished Tatra) on the former east Berlin network. https://moovitapp.com/index/de/ÖPNV-line-62-BerlinBrandenburg-1663-852203-581778-0

Not often you see those two names in close proximity ;).

This picture puts me in mind of some grand Victorian-era masterpiece with an incongruously placed Pacer thingy and a gronk.

I'm happy with the earliest available version.

Glad someone found those interesting :)

C13848 and C13847: looking at the destination blinds, presumably those units could only serve stations with up to about 6 letters in their name?

Err, weren't they built in Germany in the first place?

FWIW this info is from the March newsletter: https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=f24e36cafcafabf07d09722c1&id=340d4864ef

Is this the one you mean (at the Risboro end)? https://goo.gl/maps/WXNYdMHERQLcjZX37

'Victim fashion': Netherlands rail defends controversial campaign amid backlash

Graffiti artists trying not to be seen when hit by train, inquest told Lots of talk of "painting" and "artwork".

I can't help with the UK, but here in Japan they wouldn't count as plastic recyclables. Have you thought about selling them? There is some demand for empty boxes.

Found after watching the above - steam engine running down the middle of a motorway anyone?

I dispose of liquid waste generated by the hobby (mainly from painting-related activities) by filling a jam jar with tissue/kitchen paper (which I have previously used for something else like dabbing surplus oil off moving parts or wiping down my "workbench") and pouring any liquids into that; once it's dried the resultant blob gets put into the refuse which gets incinerated. I hope that's less damaging all-round than pouring it down the sink. Not that I do all that much painting. Most of my stock is second-hand, partly because it's cheap, partly because I enjoy repairing it (especially as so many consumer items these days are hard to repair), on the other hand the stuff I order from the UK racks up a fair few air miles before it gets here... I've sometimes wondered what the global electricity consumption directly due to running model trains and layouts is?

- Never seen Star Wars - Never watched "Game of Thrones" (I did dutifully plod through the first book in the series once, it was like eating stew every day for a month) - Don't drive - Never owned a car - Never had a mortgage - Only ever had 2 (two) credit cards Though I do love science fiction, good fantasy novels, and travelling, and have done a whole other lot of random stuff (such as snacking on insects in the shadow of a motorway in a slummy area of an SE Asian city). And black beer of all kinds, best I ever had was in Prague in 1991, at about 30p a glass.

Some China-produced locomotives have this stamped on the underside: GRAFAR LTD MADE IN CHINA Bachmann-produced boxes mostly (maybe always - I don't recall seeing one without) have a date stamped on the inside somewhere, in YYMMDD format, which is presumably the date the item was boxed; certainly enough to give an idea of when it was produced (assuming the item is still in the original box).

What I presume is the same locomotive also appears in this video from about 4:18 approaching Snow Hill: https://youtu.be/-Z8Zp2RFX4U?t=258

That sounds almost exactly like someone I used to encounter on an N gauge Facebook group. Mind you I suspect a figurative picnic with a missing sandwich might have been involved in his mental makeup...