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“Highland Sulzers” - Inverness TMD in the 80's - P4
LBRJ replied to Indomitable026's topic in Layout topics
Its a point/turnout/switch and crossing with B switches and a 1:6 crossing angle. -
Why do you need to see the whole train? Normally when looking at something full size there are structures and other things in the way Just a glimpse as someone may have once said, is enough to give a feeling of "being there"
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I have been several times - it often seems to rain on me when there! I like to see good diesel and electric trainsets (and steam ones too!) I just dont really like the term, thats all. Im all D and no E really I cant see whats wrong with using a really simple yet descriptive term like "Based in Lincolnshire in 1970s"
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Not really if you think even a little outside the box. A 4mm class 153 is only 12 niches long...you still have another 9 feet to go at here...... The well known bitsa or half a station idea would let you run HST services in such a space, same with modelling half a reception sidings or small yard. There are literally dozens of small space ideas for "D&E" ( just whoever invented that term?) just as there are for earlier based layouts.
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What would today's Standard Classes be?
LBRJ replied to a topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
This is far too political to even think about answering in any meaningful way. -
That is probably the single most insightful post regarding "D&E" modelling I have ever read!!
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Brake Vans or Train Ferries etc I wonder ?
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Firstly, I am sure many of you are already familiar with the marvels resource that these map offer to the railway researcher; and secondly if this is already on here I did't know where to search for it - And it is that good its worth another mention anyway I only found it recently while looking for something in real life and nothing to do with railways. The overlay facility is brilliant and the measurement is pretty spot on http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=50.3621&lon=-4.6400&layers=168&b=3
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My aunt bought me a copy in 1979 and I still have it today. Now I think about it, it was probably more influential on my thoughts about small trains than I ever realised. I will have to dig it out and enjoy once more the glories of Buckingham GC, Sunset Valley Railroad and Altenbeken (?) et al
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No results found for 'oh it looks magical outside with clear air and twinkling snow'.
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Normally I just think "Well if people really are willing to pay it......" But this 159 left my ghast well flabbered, and then some! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-00-Gauge-South-West-Trains-Class-159-DMU-31-514/282828689507?hash=item41d9e75063:g:iRYAAOSwiBJaHZ-8 Is it a real one??
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Trainspotting
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There is a feeling, nothing much more, that I have, that tells me that is exactly where we are headed. Smaller runs of pre-ordered models is already happening, and I cant see it not being the model (pun!!) to go forward with. It also explains why the large retailers ( I dislike the pejorative "box-shifter") are trying to hoover up the second hand market - These are the models that the "need forty seven different 47s" amateur collector type people will be left to play with; unless they are seriously well heeled.
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Please tell me about your experience with loft layouts
LBRJ replied to Lacathedrale's topic in Layout topics
I think you have wilfully missed the point of the whole thread (well at least the it's not a good idea side) It is highly possible that you can and will get away with it for two decades - The point is that it is NOT good advice to recommend such a cavalier approach as the right way, in a medium that could be taken as written by people who do know what they are talking about, with some authority. -
I have a toast rack for such matters; and it does make a difference to the toast! One word of warning - Don't go putting really thin hand sliced bread in the toaster on your usual "supermarket toaster bread" setting - The resultant flames can be quite surprising!!
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I am not overly well versed on what happens in the US but do Atlas not have three separate, well defined ranges of locomotive models? Atlas do not seem to have a bad rep, far from it - so it is possible to match different strokes for different folks
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Please tell me about your experience with loft layouts
LBRJ replied to Lacathedrale's topic in Layout topics
I can see the foundations of my house when I visit the undercroft (its near on 5 feet high at one end) and I keep some things there In this case, what you would normally think of as the centre wall is load bearing but....... It has a chimney breast all the way from the footings to the old roof/ceiling Its not really a centre wall, due to the way the houses are built - It is more of "another outer wall in the middle" if you see what I mean - There is a lot of bay window at the rear of the house. -
It looks very nice! Maybbe you could delete the first post and re jig the "right way around one" to be the new OP to save on the eye strain though
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One I really remember but not too clearly obviously by MP was in the early 80s and called Victoria Square ( I think it was in MR) an urban terminus.
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I never get this "era spilt thing" - time is small neatly dividing sections - its a continuous flow.
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Without being too generalising most of these type of threads boil down to I want more than I can afford and its not fair
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I think I have just been finally tipped over the tipping point for a long prevaricated over fresh attempt at 7mm WR Now which one do I really want? Decisions Decisions!!
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Sorry I was counting kids n train set runners in my 80% figure for "non modellers". Its a very realistic total, now I explain it better
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They are pretty good.
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Hornby's roots and the vast majority of their market are the collectors! I would bet real money that the "railway modeller" is somewhere about 20% of Hornby's market and somewhat less of their actual sales figures.
