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  1. railsquid
    Long overdue greetings, I have been busy, among others teaching the Squidlet to drive trains.
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    The 2-4-0 locomotive known as "Steam Locomotive Number 1", which hauled the first revenue-earning train to run in Japan in 1872, preserved in JR East's railway museum a little to the north of Tokyo. locomotive-no-1 by Rail Squid, on Flickr locomotive-no-1-plate by Rail Squid, on Flickr Also available in model form (N gauge but not quite N scale I believe): steam-locomotive-no-1-p1 by Rail Squid, on Flickr
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    Some seriously joined-up thinking there... Is there a thread along the lines of "Rail-replacement bus service madness" anywhere?
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    Maybe the plan was to push them off the ferry into the sea?
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    As I model in N gauge, one of my secret pleasures is the Lima Class 86 in original livery with a mixed rake of maroon and b/g Lima Mk1s. From a modelling point of view they have many scale and dimensional issues but also a certain je ne sais quois. First time I've seen a non-86 in that livery though.
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    EBay madness

    railsquid replied to Marcyg's topic in Ebay Topics

    That's not dust, it's professional weathering
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    J3194 - looking at the roofs, one wonders exactly how big the bird was.
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    Oooh, and that reminds me, body shells for various Berlin trains and trams available on Shapeways: https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/miniatures/trains/?tag=berlin
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    At the risk of going slightly OT, here in Japan you won't find hot food any more on a train (apart from maybe some sleeper/excursion services); the original Shinkansens did have restaurant cars, which got downgraded to buffets, and now exclusively trolley service only.
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    I'm planning a (fairly generic) take on that as I used it a lot during the early 90s; happily I've acquired some appropriate stock in N (some of it here in Japan where it pops up very occasionally). german-station-mockup-2017-01-05 by Rail Squid, on Flickr Way too modern and for the narrow-profile U-Bahn lines, so not even suitable for the U6 which passes beneath Friedrichstrasse.
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    I resemble that remark, I used that station very occasionally during the 90s to travel to London. Was sometimes fun arriving at Marylebone and explaining about its utter lack of one of them "Permit to Travel" machines.
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    Overview of models here: http://www.modellbau-wiki.de/wiki/S-Bahn_Berlin
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    Meanwhile in Germany, a Mercedes driver was unable to find somewhere to park, so left his car on a level crossing (link in German, with piccy), where it promptly became the worse-off party in a contretemps with a freight train. Piccy and text indicate the crossing is not barrier protected, I guess this is the location (Google aerial view with the railway line running east-west across the centre).
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    I hope those destination blinds aren't taken seriously, either by driver or passengers Spent a bit of time on those platforms during my youth as my grandparents lived just down the road, though there wasn't much to see apart from the occasional blue/grey 115, if memory serves correctly. So it was only a bit of time.
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    Given that it has Arnold branding I imagine they knew what they were doing.
  16. railsquid
    C4335 - love the way the embankment behind the locos blends into the backscene.
  17. railsquid
    Nominated for best rail/road photo 1975~1985.
  18. railsquid
    Yup, probably same one as in the video above.
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    Class 800 attracting an audience of thousands (ca. 30,000) as it makes its way from factory to port for trans-shipment to the UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MSUAGrNX7U
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    Ah, clearly visible if I click on the link in the quote...
  21. railsquid
    In this photo, what's the red square sticking out of the loco near the cab?
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    Couple more links: https://philsinnett.wordpress.com/ http://www.stummiforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=123403 FWIW my own modest take (work-in-progress) on the Stadtbahn viaduct in N has the track bed at about 50mm elevation. Using the Faller viaduct sides which are fairly generic but close enough for now. german-station-mockup-2017-02-27 by Rail Squid, on Flickr
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    EBay madness

    railsquid replied to Marcyg's topic in Ebay Topics

    4-CRAP?
  24. railsquid
    It knew it would be Ivory the Engine.
  25. railsquid
    In case it's of any interest, that's this layout: https://www.vbbs-weinbergsweg.de/s-bahnanlage/ Also I came across this one the other day: http://pallmergmbh-weilheim.de/modellbahnanlagen-unserer-kunden/
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