AngusDe

Hallo,

found another great clip of BR Blue. This time cab ride from Euston after which some clips of trains at Berkhamsted

 

Hope you enjoy it

es grüßt

pc

 

On a roll here, I've just watched this one too, again brilliant.

What's striking to me is the amount of freight and parcels/van traffic being hauled by ac electrics, and possibly related the number of 08s passed.

Angus

Great stuff. I bought a chromecast thingy last week so I'm watching it on the tv.

One question I have is, what are the yellow squares on some (WR?) coach sides?

Angus

EDIT: watched the 2nd video, even better! 27s Crainlarich Lower timber trains, 27s Edinburgh/Glasgow push pulls, double headed 50s on Beattock, Blue 303s taking me to/from Central (with a wee bit of imagination!) and School/College, #sigh

Not so much weather, but sun set on the 7 Feb 2015, looking towards the Inverkeithing viaduct on the northern approach to the Forth Bridge.

You can make out a pair of 158s/ a 175 (you decide, I can't!) on the viaduct. Pics were taken with my phone, from St David's Harbour, Dalgety Bay.

Angus

So, a state of the art Big Boy in 00 it is then??....

Angus

I see.

 

I'll give you 12 months

A couple of years before my redundancy from the Met Office I bought a Watson W-8681 Wireless USB weather station (This station is made by Fine Offset Electronics and is sold under a number of other names including Maplin N96FY, Ambient WS-1090, Weathereye WEA22) for about £80, and hooked it up to my home server (which runs 24/7) and I run the Cumulus software (shareware) and apart from changing the batteries every 6 months it has been great (within the limitations of price and sighting) and I've uploaded the data to it's own twitter feed, the Met O WOW site and a few others. For a while I also had a website for it.

The main cumulus panel.

The graphs page.

Generally the data is believable, corrected for height, winds from the N and E are a good match to nearby MO sites, frontal rain ties in with nearby MO sites, temps can be more problematical, the sensor screen isn't very good (know anyone with a small screen in their shed?) and in strong sunlight and/or no wind it can get rather high compared to what you'd expect, but a known problem with the Fine Offset. Another known problem is that it can be a bit flakey when Cummulus restarts after anything, the Fine doesn't like it and can give spurious readings such as 500mm of rain for today, or as shown on that graph a Min temp of 0.0. Most of the time I coorect these if I notice at the time, but like I said a known problem.

For an initial investment of £80ish, if you've an old PC or laptop your happy to leave running 24/7, I reckon it can't be beat. It's been running for 6 years now and, well, it keeps me amused

Angus

 I saw another today. It was at Mission, 

Feeling pleased with myself, at first glance I thought, "that looks like Mission", then read the captions!

I'm still humming and hawing whether I can afford to visit my brother this year.

Angus

Just read all 22 pages...

...there are some very excitable people on here!

But it has to be good news that a full range is planed, not just locos for collectors.

It does seem likely that this is the model multiple manufacturers have been working on. Perhaps it is inevitable that these things happen and they are all tough enough to take the hit.

There was a time recently when if I'd been off RMWeb for a week or so, I'd come on and find a new model had been announced, now it seems to be a new manufacturer, a new range even! 

But 500+ post threads, frothing over cryptic clues, hmmmm......

Angus

All,

I came across this old phone video I took in 2008, BNSF at White Rock.

I'm guessing a PW working.

Hope it is of enough interest to justify the poor quality.

Angus

Fascinating choice.

I was reading it all, thinking. "hmmm, no mention if the pantograph works", then remembered, DUH, lol!

Unless it was in N it wouldn't tempt me, but a APT-P might, after all the times I passed them going in and out of Glasgow Central and thinking, "I must get myself a ride on one of those soon", sadly I never did.

Angus

PS daft thought really, but, with P4 drop in wheels and it working down to R2 track, if you had R2 type curves on a P4 layout would the dynamics of the wheel/rail profiles keep it on the track at any sort of speed, I guess not?

Angus

I actually specialise in rubbish shots of the Rocky Mountaineer, here is one from the cable car at Hells Gate, you can see the train in the trees, just... taken in 2008.

Angus

West Coast Express, eyeing up it's overnight lodgings at Mission.

Phone pic from car (I wasn't driving!), as my brother said, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it!" 

I'm not sure of the exact location...

Angus

2 short clips, of some trains near Vancouver last week. 

You can try counting the cars, maybe 160ish in each train, I'm curious why the CP one has 1 loco at the front and 1 in the middle, whilst the CP train has 2 at the front.

Anyway, hope they are of interest!

Angus

Great photos in this topic! I'll be in Vancouver in just under a month and would welcome any suggestions for good railfanning/photography locations, preferably accessible by TransLink.

Cheers

David

Having arrived in Vancouver today I was hoping to see a reply, lol!

As I navigated my hire car from the airport to Chilliwack I saw a fascinating scene near Langley, where 4 locos were shuffling down a branch with 4 cars, seemed like a bit of overkill, but I didn't recognise the livery, 3 locos were in a dark blue livery and 1 in green?

Angus

Here are some pics of a North Rail MaK at Gutersloh Nord in Germany  on my Flickr if you're interested.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71875467@N05/

I'm sorry I missed the MaK action at Glasgow, I was there Sunday!

Angus

And a quick rehash of one of my previous ideas, re jigged for your 8'x6' area, with a operating well in the middle.

I've crammed a lot in, as I tend to do, but it is all just indicative, keeping the station point work on side legs allows platforms just as long as in the12'x4' ideas.

Anyway just ideas, hope they help, have fun doodling!

Angus 

Steve,

Hiya, I'd suggest that you don't need three crossings on the layout, and the facing one, using curved points, on a stretch where trains would be running relatively fast would prove to problematical (as per prototype!) 

On the same basic plan I'd have just the 2 trailing crossovers, and as using curved points isn't as  big a issue on a trailing crossing, i'd stick with the idea of keeping the full length for station. I've added a few sidings as a illustration and again I'd suggest it's more prototypical, and easier to operate, if they're also mainly in a trailing direction. This also has the benefit of removing the set track reverse curves through the crossings.

Having said all that, the 8' x 6' would be the better option I suspect!

Hope this helps your thought processes.

Angus

Just noticed the thread!

Great layout, I've doodled many an idea based on the projected line to Ullapool and often wondered, if it had been built, would the Stornoway steamer have stopped going to Kyle and Mallaig? Or, would that only be a change for the car ferry days, and if so, would the backwater Ullapool line then become the mainline and Kyle the backwater?

I should really stop doodling and build my layout.

Angus

PS (edit) I was looking at the pics, thinking, "that's a very German looking home", not thinking, of course, you are!

Maybe it is the mists of time playing havoc with my memory, but didn't the CO retain first class seating spacing that lined up with the windows in second class, at least for a time? I seem to remember I always sought out that part of the train for the extra legroom and better view out the window on my drinking trips to Edinburgh.

But maybe thats just me getting old, *sigh*...

Angus

PS great project and something I hope to buying!

I have 3 Berliner Bahnen TT coaches in my collection. They date from 88ish and one of my first wife's trips to Berlin, I had asked her to get me some HO stuff when she visited East Berlin, and whilst she got me a HO loco... anyway, but not the reason we divorced, lol!

It is a great scale, it is a pity the UK RTR scene has dried up completely. I often doodle TT layouts when I'm daydreaming as any likely space available doesn't do HO or OO justice, and I keep suspecting my fading eyes and chubby thumbs are no good for N!

Although my ex wife managed 2 trips to Berlin before the wall came down, and was there on her 3rd (weekend) trip when it actually came down, I never did. The closest I got was a drive into E Germany the first weekend we were allowed to. I can't help thinking the cold war period is rapidly being forgotten about, it is almost being airbrushed out of history.

Angus

DapolDave,

No doubt you'll now be giving some thought to BR(Sc) and ScotRail liveried Mk3s now that Bachmann/Farish have announced DBSOs and 47/7s?

Continuing that train of thought, in cases such as this, do Dapol see a noticeable bump in sales of, in this case, the 26/27 when another company releases other such iconic models that make a 80s ScR layout more attractive and more likely to move off the day dream drawing board to reality?

Angus

Glasgow's St Enoch;

 

it's a long way from the idea of a Minories track plan

 

 

Ian

lol! I know it was the 1967 version I was thinking off!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33476733@N04/6816066611/

Angus

Glasgow's St Enoch was another substantial passenger station that survived for a year or two longer with goods and parcels.

Now that would be a depiction of real urban grot and decay!

Angus

I keep thinking I saw a 4w Sentinal at RAF Gutersloh 86-93, but I can't find any photos, most of my time there there were a 0-6-0 and a 0-4-0 loco there and I remember the distinctive sheeted/boxed in handrail area either side of the cab, but at 20-25 years distant memories could be playing tricks!

[edit] and reading Clive's post my mind is playing tricks! lol! [edit]

Angus

It's still not quite right - the facing crossover is in the wrong place. See http://3.bp.blogspot... - close up.JPG as posted above by Russ (mine's a pint).

 

Sorry to be so pedantic but CJF's combination of turnouts is pure genius!

 

Ian

Your right Ian, corrected plan inserted! You'd think I'd know it instinctively, having played around with it for 40+ years, lol!

Angus