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Steam can reach much higher temperatures than 180 degrees under the right circumstances. I'm no expert on live steam models, but my personal view is that it would be best to stick its the traditional materials and technique, and I'm not sure if silicon tubing is one of them. I'd always err on the side of safety with live steam, it can go badly wrong. Please bear in mind that I could be wrong though, others are undoubtedly more qualified than I am

Whilst I am currently single (don't even get me started on that one ) I think that there are a surprising number of seemingly uninterested ladies out there that like, and dare I say, are impressed by such things. The railway can also be the source of little romantic gestures. A little 009 Quarry Hunslet (it's 'cute' apparently), painted in her fave colour and named after her is actually a rather nice thing to do just make sure that not all of her anniversary present

Ambulance Train, Railway children, LMR, and 1000 train set for me

Come now. There has never been, nor will ther ever be such a document

Dukedog in N If here ever was a candidate for the driveshaft through cab from tender motor idea, this is it

Please take my money, I must possess it!!!! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130970458664

Tooling costs for any RTR locomotive are massive and for the most part they cannot be split without destroying the original tool. These are engineering-standard components that cannot be changed without destroying the ability of the tool to be a tool. The only exceptions to this are some tools that are designed with slide-in sections to represent detail differences (headcode boxes and the like), I believe that Dapol is the most common user of this practice. Still, such an idea must be taken forward in the design stage, and not retrospectively. So you couldn't use the front of an A4, the boiler of an A3 etc because you would eiher have to cut up a tool (in itself, not the easiest of tasks) or create a brand new one from scratch. In either case, there isnt a whole lot of cost saving there. The same problem with the B17, there would have to be an entirely new tooling for the body. Fraid that this idea is a bit of a non-starter: its wonderful in principle, but I doubt that it will ever be able to be used in the real world

No results on Google, so even if it is happening, they're not going properly yet. Not sure that a DP2 rebuild would be distinctive enough for popular support anyway INHO

(of custard made)

for fish baiting

It's not a railway item, but I've managed to pick up a Dark Angel Chaplain Seraphicus for £8! And ona railway note, managed to grab a Pullman coach for a conversion project for a quite reasonable sum of 99p and a DCC ready N" in BR Black (a la the Olympic trainset) for £40. Not too shabby at all

Well it certainly looks like a P2 Be still, my beating wallet

rheumatism, but then

although of course

tomato sauce base

wrestle poodles and

You mean weathered badly never seen any pic of steam engine that looked like that

Saw a spaniel puppy chasing a balloon this morning. If you don't smile at that, you aren't human

Yoink winging its way towards me as I type, er, speak

no unpleasant bending

I wasn't nagging honest just very interested in pictures that I have found to be rather rare and hard to find myself

frog like noises

These pictures from the Cadbury works are fascinating. I'd love to see more if there are more to see: I only live ten minutes away from Bourneville and its one of my favoured tourist haunts whena friend from out of town comes to visit

I want it all - Queen

I think (don't rely just on me, for gods sake) that Cadbury used to import raisins and currants from Italy for its fruit and nut bars. They are reasonably perishable traffic, and so would have needed ventilated vans. Also, lest we forget, there had to be shipments of the Chocolate fruit (Cocau?) from Ghana, and rails across Europe would have been a decent way to achieve this. That's a complete guess by the way, got absolutely no evidence to back it up If you were thinking of modelling the railway in its later years, there is a rather handsome diesel shunter sitting next to the kids play area at Cadbury world. You can virtually climb on it