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Maybe the fence is a bit light but maybe it was a new fence to replace a rotted one, it does look like new wood.
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No entries since August 20th, hope everything is alright in Oregon!
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Won't the planks warp as they dry or not if they dry naturally?
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Petition signed!
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Going back to Baz's topic on Pontefract and liquorice I once tried liquorice ice cream. It was horrible!
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Regarding Julian's comments re Marmite this product now belong to Unilever as does Bovril and both of them have had their formulae altered in the same way they drastically changed Pears soap some years ago. Bovril now only has a proportion of beef extract plus added chemicals etc and Marmite has less yeast extract and other changes to cheapen it. Marmite still tastes pretty much the same but Bovril has a completely different texture.
It's the modern world I guess!
Happy new year to all the readers of Shaun's brilliant work and postings.
Edward
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The Dent layout is simply superb, quite difficult to distinguish it from the photos of the real thing! The only tiny criticism I have is that I don't think you would see a bus on the coal road, I don't even think a bus could make it to the station car park up the narrow winding road, steep and including a very tight hairpin bend.
Edward
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Just read through the 4 pages of this topic, found it very interesting. There are some railways that try very hard to make things interesting for volunteers and have well structured introductions and education in the topics that they will come across. One danger is the "fun" factor. Volunteers are just that and they do want to enjoy their volunteering or they will soon quit. Nowadays we have a very much safety oriented society so there is much more beurocracy to deal with which doesn't have much of a fun factor but it is very necessary. When I was a volunteer back in the 80s it was a great deal of fun and not too much worry with rules, everybody was assumed to have basic common sense, [now it is apparently a rare commodity] nobody got hurt and things got done. Now we have a new rule that forbids people to work on a railway until they are 16 but again some more enlightened railways have special courses for the 14-16 age group which seem to be successful. Obviously in the H&S climate of today volunteering can still have some of the fun factor but with an underlining of seriousness.
Young people are the future for the heritage industry. I do feel that as yet the numbers of them actively involved is probably insufficient for all the heritage lines and some may very well fall by the wayside. Only old codgers like me can remember the days when steam engines were part of our daily experience and as we fall by the wayside today's youngsters will have to create their own railway heritage to ensure at least some of it will continue.
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When was the last issue published and is it still going?
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31 pages covering series introduction; fleet composition,numbering , liveries, upgrading and conversion; and "Conclusion and Future Volumes" and around 45 photos not of brake vans.
Thanks for that!
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What is covered by this volume, brakevans and what else?
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I put some money towards the restreamlining of 6229 foolishly imagining the NRM would return it to steam so we could see an LMS streamliner in action. It appears that I was wrong and it will remain "stuffed and mounted" in York. Very disappointing!
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Dunster was our first layout done in 2009 I beleive. It has had some serious revamping in the tree department. Learned some tricks from Don at the Medford Model Railway Club & then incorperated some new ideas of my own to create Dunsters new trees. You can see in this video that the old trees are pretty bla.
Check out the fencing in this video. Mr. Sasquatch wanted it along the track but didn't want to spend that much money. So I said why not use match sticks! Drill holes in them, paint & then thread beading wire through them! It was a real hit at the train show. The beading wire gives the fencing a convincing cable wire look to them.
Here are two videos from patrons at the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGAbjxGjZs&list=PL2EFC64EB696CD17F&index=1
In this video Mr. Sasquatch devised an plan and created his own moving gates. Don't ask me how its over my head! Especially when he explains it to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4JVOmOl3kQ&list=PL2EFC64EB696CD17F&index=2
Here are some photos of the new additions to Dunster. New trees, as you can see in this first photo and then a small house & greenhouse/nursery.
IMG_0038.JPGIMG_0032.JPGIMG_0033.JPGIMG_0035.JPGI'll try to get some videos on here of the new Dunster soon.
Mrs. Sasquatch(SWMBO)
Dunster was our first layout done in 2009 I beleive. It has had some serious revamping in the tree department. Learned some tricks from Don at the Medford Model Railway Club & then incorperated some new ideas of my own to create Dunsters new trees. You can see in this video that the old trees are pretty bla.
Check out the fencing in this video. Mr. Sasquatch wanted it along the track but didn't want to spend that much money. So I said why not use match sticks! Drill holes in them, paint & then thread beading wire through them! It was a real hit at the train show. The beading wire gives the fencing a convincing cable wire look to them.
Here are two videos from patrons at the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGAbjxGjZs&list=PL2EFC64EB696CD17F&index=1
In this video Mr. Sasquatch devised an plan and created his own moving gates. Don't ask me how its over my head! Especially when he explains it to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4JVOmOl3kQ&list=PL2EFC64EB696CD17F&index=2
Here are some photos of the new additions to Dunster. New trees, as you can see in this first photo and then a small house & greenhouse/nursery.
IMG_0038.JPGIMG_0032.JPGIMG_0033.JPGIMG_0035.JPGI'll try to get some videos on here of the new Dunster soon.
Mrs. Sasquatch(SWMBO)
Pardon my ignorance but what is beading wire?
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It probably has a style name that has escaped me. Apparently the main feature of interest in Skerton bridge is that there is no gradient across the bridge itself.
Jamie
I believe it was the world's first flat decked bridge, built towards the end of the 18th century it still carries weights far in excess of traffic weights back then and has had very little maintenance over the years, Southern end has a tee junction and Mr Harrison even built matching houses facing the bridge to complete the picture.
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Firstly a big Thank you for all the Greetings. Apologies if I haven't visited your threads to return them Just have very slow internet at present.
So you may be aware of the storms we've been hit with on the west coast.
Pretty isn't it. Trouble is, it brings down power lines which has left us without electricity for 18 hours. Luckily we have a nice wood burning stove so there's been plenty of tea and crumpets on the go.
Rather than get bored I dug out all my signal stuff and got to work. Mostly by gas lantern!
Having built the up starter bracket signal for Goathland, I proceeded with the other signals which will adorn the middle base board section.
The three ground shunt signals are under construction and are awaiting paint.
Next I built the down siding starter which stands behind the road bridge.
Pretty simple stuff, just two styrene angle sections mitered together for the post with drilled out Ratio parts, a finial turned in the hand drill with an Atlas track pin inserted from below.
Then I started on the junction outer home post by firstly making a drawing by scaling a picture down.
The lenses are water based varnish mixed with cake dye.
This one posses a bit of a problem in that it has 3 arms which required some thought on how to animate them.
Having used the Ratio signal control to great effect on Dunster I proceeded to build a double stack mechanism to the same spec. from scratch.
I have also done much work on the next three starter posts for the station board.
I used lamps and lenses from one of the kits from the Ratio eBay haul along with three signal control sets, drilling and filing out the GWR parts so that they look like NER gubbins.
More work this evening I hope.
Squatch
Hey Shaun, where do you get the crumpets from, struggle to find any here in Arkansas and the ones I did find were a very poor substitute for Warburtons. I usually bring several packs back when I've been to UK and put them in the freezer. Have to ration them though!
Edward
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Photos this afternoon taken on visits to Market Overton between 1972 and 1975.
A quick reminder that Market Overton was at the end of an ex British Steel line, accessed at that time from the High Dyke branch and past Sewstern.
At this time John Gretton and Bill McAlpine kept locos and stock there.
When these photos were taken part of Dad's job was to manage the ex British Steel lines in the Sewstern area, along with the works there, so he and I often visited Market Overton.
Market Overton Baguley Bass Charington No 5 and GER slaoon 1 July 72 J2991.jpgMarket Overton Bagguley Bass Charington No 5 and GER saloon 1 July 72 J2991
Market Overton Avonside and Peckett Oct 73 C1420.jpgMarket Overton Avonside and Peckett Oct 73 C1420
Market Overton A3 4472 Flying Scotsman Oct 73 C1440.jpgMarket Overton A3 4472 Flying Scotsman Oct 73 C1440
Market Overton Barclay Harlaxton Dec 73 C1446.jpgMarket Overton Barclay Harlaxton Dec 73 C1446
Market Overton Barclay 0-4-0CT Glenfield Sept 75 J4893.jpgMarket Overton Barclay 0-4-0CT Glenfield Sept 75 J4893
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Flying Scotsman looked so much nicer without the double chimney and weird blinkers.
Edward
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I picked up a copy of the second (January) issue last week; this includes an article about Bassett Lowke. It's not bad for a magazine that's free to the reader, though I'd say that most articles are aimed at those starting out in the hobby. The article this month on Pempoul was good, it's a shame that only three pages were dedicated to it, while there were eight pages dedicated to reviews of Bachmann products.
The best thing about the new magazine is that it's distributed through model shops - putting inspirational content into the hands of newcomers to the hobby has got to be a good thing.
I got my copy free with Railway Magazine a couple of days ago. I found it very interesting and a good read, lots of useful information on suppliers such as a long list by county. Some but certainly not all of it aimed at newcomers, nice article on 3D printing which is something I know little about. I hope it continues and the proprietors can find enough outlets for it, I assume it is supported by advertisers. Great start anyway, well done.
Edward
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What are the presumably unpleasant effects of lime that resulted in it being banned? Must've been bad if it was stopped that long ago.
Maybe it was thought that lime didn't have any effect on nasty organisms, after all it was only limewash not quicklime and it wasn't worth the labour and cost. I don't suppose we'll ever know the reason for it now unless it is documented somewhere. It was only a year or two after grouping so maybe there were big four discussions on it which resulted in its demise.
Edward
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. All metal with rubber tyres. The body is made of Zamac and it is clipped to a black-painted steel baseplate. The accompanying magazine that I bought from W. H. Smith describes it in full. The price was £7.99 but Smiths charged me £4.99. I pointed out the error but they let me have it for £4.99. The Atlas model had a Dinky Toys advertisement on the side panel..
The alloy was always called MAZAC, I suppose it might have changed. Its chief problem is "tin plague" which is a crystalline change that causes the alloy to crumble especially notable on old Hornby O gauge wheels but sometimes seen on very old Dinkies.
Edward
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Ain't life a b***h, I' have had many of those cattle wagons for years and only over the holidays did I decide to whiten them only to find .................. I shouldn't have. I honestly can't remember seeing lime traces or not on the real thing so just went with my gut feeling and the fact Edward66 pointed out that most models have them so treated. Oh well back to the paint shop in a few years time. Thanks to bot Edward66 and 'Mike' The Stationmaster for confirmation, it all helps.
Sorry to have given you some extra work to do Mike but I'm sure you are a stickler for accuracy and will feel obliged to do it. There must be countless other modellers who are unaware of the 1926 ruling and will continue to lime their cattle wagons!
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Hi Edward,
Must admit that's a new one on me, thanks for the comments.
Hi Mike, I looked in the search box at the opening page of RMWeb under "use of lime in cattle wagons" and it came up with numerous references. Apparently it was banned as long ago as c.1926 which I must admit surprised me so I imagine it continued unofficially in some places.
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What a great collection of pictures, this layout is wonderful! One small point, I did a bit of research and discovered that the use of lime in cattle wagons was discontinued many years ago and certainly before BR days yet it is seen in many layouts. Maybe it continued unofficially in some places?
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Hi Ron,
Any timescale for your return to this wonderful project yet? We devoted followers wait with baited breath!
Eward
Grim-up-North; Goathland, Queensbury & Bradford.
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I'm always impressed by the rapidity with which you get your houses built, they look spot on too!