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(7 yrs pass....) Isopropanol/IPA is excellent, also good for guitar strings btw. And now we've all got access to disposable gloves no more finger-freeze! However you can use this stuff for solder burns or scalpel nicks.

Ok my apology for "welded" remark. But any other ideas of an autotrain welcome.

I'm 0-0 looking for ideas on any autotrain/pull/push/pull other than that GWR thing that everyone sells. Modelling a 30s independent line who'd buy anything from anyone, so pics of weird things appreciated!

The very pic I failed to send!! That'll be from the Fratton end (or nearest scrapyard?). Moved to Pompey a while back and thought it might be a good BLT to model, as in "what COULD it have been". Then saw the size of the NotreDame-style church involved in the background, although there's possibly a bloke somewhere in PO5 been making it in matchsticks for the last 30 yrs?

East Southsea branch, Fratton to the seaside. A disaster-line (as in "Why did we ever think this'd be a good idea?") but they did come up with a Terrier welded onto a coach. Hoping the pic loads (iffy laptop) but if not has anyone got any other pics?

Having measured up, bought baseboard, track & more, then finding landlord is selling the flat. Grrrr bloody grrr.

Noooo.. You're in the land of fantasy here Jones.

I have read that they managed with a sack/bucket of coal in the cab when just working in a yard.

All useful stuff ^^^^ but [equine digression - I've posted re this before but can't find it!] I spent an age looking up "turning circle of horse n cart" then went to a Heavy Horse show and realised the CAN reverse. A kind of 3point turn. Lots of human shouting and a p'd of horse but it does work. What I have seen on one layout was a yard accessed from an overbridge involving a 1 in 5 gradient. This Dobbin cannot do.

Corrox [aka estate agent signs] is easy to collect, cuts & glues well. V.handy for scenics.

Yes. That's how they launched Thunderbird 4.

Airfix military figures are easily scalpel'd to reshape caps, remove rucksacks etc. Limbs can be manipulated into pose with a hot nail and tweezers. All you need is something to drop the nail onto while you grab the tweezers. Oh and some Elastoplast. WWI Brit infantry good for guard/s'master. US Civil War Union/Jap WW2 infantry for loco crew.

Old style correction tape (Tippex I think make a modern version). Write with a needle.

More alarming - they can vote !!! (well, yeah, already have done).

Great stuff all! Wonder if there are brewery/garage fanatics' sites that get side-tracked into train talk? A learning curve here & no mistake, with bonus that I learn loads about railways too!

Possibly to do with size of barrel. I can(could!!) lift a 9 gallon & place on top of another, but the things that Nearholmer pictured could only be rolled (unless it's pics of empties!). Would hate to be a drayman back then. Er..Hogsheads? Firkins? Tuns? Should know all this!

A Fistful Of Travellers Cheques ??? Had a bit of similar in Germany when young. 3 of us pushing car up a hill to some bloke's place where he poured us petrol out of a (yep!) Jerrycan. Yes, why didn't we walk it up there and walk back with the can. Maybe his revenge for Hamburg. Dunno.

Lordy so they did!! Thanks. God knows what those barrels must've held. I love to stand corrected!

re "Loaded as for beer".. I've had the ill luck to work in the pub trade for a while and barrels (kegs now) are/were kept upright in transit, max stacking 2. When the boozers reopen look at the dray when it comes, ditto the old pictures of horse drawn drays round the walls. I've got a (offstage) small brewery on the layout. Just an excuse to have a bit of extra goods yard traffic. Looked at the ins n outs elsewhere on here & found that beer barrels often went in vent-vans or even old cattle wagons. Seemed a good idea as I don't then have to swap full>empty open wagons each cycle of working, if that makes sense. Ps- Loved your "Have a gallon" man. Same in the pubs. "Ooooo I thinkk I'll have a.. no,just a minute,what's that new one?Nooo I'll have a half of [beer he's been drinking for 80yrs]. Oh, then complain about it. :o)

Modelling a 30s BLT. Small town/large village, middle of nowhere up north. I'm wondering how petrol would have been brought in. Research so far tells me that the place is too small to justify a garage with new fangled pumps. Probably only 4-5 car owners in the whole place plus maybe a couple of lorry owners. I've read that petrol was commonly sold at hardware shops (&chemists!) in 2 gallon cans. So.... i) does the above sound about right? If so.. ii) how was said petrol delivered to the goods yard? Already in cans on wagon? iii) what regs about where in a stopping goods said wagon would be marshalled? All info welcome!

Camper van holiday - went into a butchers in a place called Lladdyrwddblblbl or similar. Prize Welsh Lamb certificates all over the place. "Pound of diced lamb please". "Yes, what are you doing with it?" "We're making a curry". Butcher goes out back. Loud rant to someone else in Welsh but including "..f**kin curry".

Excellent song! Knew a sheepdog (re-homed) who'd been sacked. Got the sheep into the pen ok every time but followed them in & stood in the middle grinning. Having a laugh with his wooly mates.

Who makes the best 0-0 animals? I'm after: -Cat at rest -Dog ditto* -Sheep (suitable for cattle dock tenants) They all look great in the pics online but which products disappoint/amaze when received? *Once saw an ad for "risque" figures in the back of a mag. Any ideas? I'd love a cameo of dog licking the bits that dogs do while observed by distainful cat atop wall.