GRASinBothell
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Oh well, it was a thought.
Ours hosts two cars, a work bench and prodigious quantities of "stuff", some of which has not seen the light of day in decades!
Gordon
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Glad to hear of progress.
Can the car not be (temporarily) evicted from the garage to allow a carpentry session?
Gordon
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On the Greenwood website, it looks as if the removal of the turntables is only temporary (although that's quite an old posting). Have you tried contacting him directly?
Gordon
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You might look at the Merci Train (http://www.mercitrain.org/). This was a "train" of 49 of these cars sent to the US in 1949 by the people of France as a way to show their gratitude for quantities of food sent from the US. Each of the then 48 states received one boxcar, with DC and the Territory of Hawaii sharing the other one.
Unfortunately, the Nebraska boxcar was an early casualty, but most of the others remain. The website I included above tells you where they all are, so you may be able to find one close enough to go and measure/photograph.
Gordon
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Was it intentional that the Jan 18 and May 6 posts had completely different station buildings? FWIW, the May 6 one is shown on the website at the URL shown in the Jan 18 post, whereas I don't see the one pictured in the Jan 18 post at that link...
Gordon
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Our modular group here in the US Pacific Northwest uses 6-pin trailer plugs for connection between modules. There are other types of connector used for automobile trailers with different numbers of pins. So, you might look at the automobile trailer market.
Gordon
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I was beginning to think we'd have to send out search parties...
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The book about the Weymouth Harbour Tramway also notes that eventually all members of the class found their way onto it. The last was 1369, which finally made its appearance on the line in 1960, at which time the tank sides were still emblazoned "GREAT WESTERN". Might be a reason to choose a particular member of the class...
Gordon
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"The Weymouth Harbour Tramway in the Steam Era" by Gerry Beale has, as you'd expect, a great many pictures (including one on the front cover) featuring 1366 class tank locos. In those photos where it's visible (naturally, when you're looking for something specific, there's frequently someone or something obscuring it!) there's either a steam heat hose or just the pipe with the hose removed (I gather that it was common practice to remove them in summer for their own protection).
However, in talking about the 1366 class locos, it notes that "unlike other members of the class" the ones used on the tramway had steam heat, as well as a warning bell and an additional footstep and handrail for the shunter at the front right.
So, the impression I get is that steam heat comes with those other features.
Gordon
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You seem to have quite a range of kits. Are they listed on a website somewhere?
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I had to wait a few more years for my first OO loco, a 2-rail Cardiff Castle - now long gone, but I have an ACE Caerphilly Castle to replace it!
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58 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:
but am more interested in pressing on with electrification
I guess that's your Southern Railway bias coming through!
But good to see progress. Coming along nicely
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The bridge at Hunston on the Selsey Tramway might be of interest.
And while I know it wasn't over a canal, the Hayling bridge had a swing bridge hinged at one end to allow boats higher than the bridge to pass through.
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Will that be before or after the last rites at Birlstone? Or has that already happened?
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Mea culpa.
I should have remembered the strap line better. I have the book...
Gordon
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Of course, this thread is entitled "Deliberately Old-Fashioned".
To me, that implies something made or done some time after it would have been considered up to date. So, even brand new things, providing they look old-fashioned should be OK...
Besides, we all know who originated that phrase as a description of his company's products...
That, of course, includes the modern motive power pictured on this thread so recently!
Gordon
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It has a "colourized" look to it. Did the Southern or BR(S) ever paint signal boxes mostly green like that? I seem to recall them mostly cream with green trim under BR.
Gordon
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Well, the last Bulldog lasted in service into 1951, so you could probably justify it in BR colours. Perhaps a service to Birlstone from Reading along the ex-SECR line?
And in 1957 BR put City of Truro back in service on both excursions and regular service trains, mostly on the DN&S. Perhaps Birlstone isn't too far from there?
See, you can now justify buying not one, but two GWR 4-4-0s!
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I do wonder if we're going to see pictures of the usual "last day" festivities at Birlstone or Paltry Circus. Maybe a wreath bearing the hope "Perchance it is not dead, but sleepeth"...
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Twenty times???
Would that they only cost forty shillings!
What is the make of that kit, by the way?
Gordon
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There's obviously something about French trains that makes people use large numbers of stamps. When I bought a clockwork Hornby Bugatti Autorail from an eBay seller in San Francisco a few years ago, it arrived with the box covered in assorted US stamps. At the time, I had a co-worker whose husband collected US stamps, so I donated the stamp-covered parts of the box to him. Apparently, the stamps were of various dates, some dating back to the early 1970s...
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Thanks. I should have thought of Duncan Models, having purchased several items from them in the past. I even have a couple of his seagulls flying over the layout.
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Was the signpost a kit?
Gordon
Deliberately Old-Fashioned 0 Scale - Chapter 1
in 7mm+ modelling
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Or perhaps Birlstone Road.
Then you wouldn't need any structures (other than railway ones) as it would be out in the sticks miles from civilization...
Gordon