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Chris, A quick look through: http://www.departmentals.com/photos/tags/dormitory might turn up something. Possibly stabled at the PW engineer's yard at Low fell in their day? P

Maybe you can be sure of a big surprise... P

Thanks Mark. I know exactly what it is. As I type this I look out of the window to see the Magnesium Limestone Escarpment that produced the very lime in those wagons. It surrounds my house by about 270 degrees. Just so happens an ex colleague manages the works that probably refined the stuff you see been blown out of the wagons in Daves Phot. I say probably because the product could have come from a one of a number of sources within a few miles of each other. The fact the wagons are railfreight uncovered gives the game away that the product is to be used for agricultural liming rather that flux in steelmaking. Just like basic slag was used for soil treatment. Only the steelmaking part is missed out.. It would be presumptuous of me to say were the fines came from exactly, or the exact destination without knowing what the train reporting number is but I can be 90% certain that the loose fines was loaded from Lorries via this pad and it's destination was Gartcosh or Brechin and later Monrtose: Ferryhill by Jonathon Hurley, on Flickr Loose fines ...and the covered wagons behind came from here: https://flic.kr/p/bkijsu Very few of the quarries round here have used the top ten metres (The Magnesum bearing Layer) for a good few years now(Apart from roadstone and tarmac). The last load of Magnesium fines going to Africa for use in banana plantations a good few years ago, Most of the seasonal (April/May) de souring lime coming from this quarry: https://goo.gl/maps/oZnSy and been loaded at the previously mentioned pad. Here's some of the Steelworks bound lime being redistributed for agricultural purposes. Dust blowing ! by keith.mcgovern1, on Flickr And https://flic.kr/p/5XAuoU https://flic.kr/p/dLScKc Porcy

I wonder how much lighter those lime wagons would have been when they reached their destination? No doubt the farmers would have been happy for the free dusting at all points south but I don't think the housewives would have been so pleased. P

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Well... I was looking for a model to show off your wares in a thoroughly misogynistic sort of way; sort of in this style: https://moremoneymorechoices.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/alcohol-and-genital.jpg (yes ... that sort of model) but I couldn't find one readily to hand. Yesterday was spent drilling out some LMS LB01 buffers to spring them. What do you think? With apologies to Mr. G for hijacking his thread. (Again) P, of Durham, thoroughly deserving of a gob smack.

Nah. For me, that would be worse then been locked in a sweetie shop. P

Maybe now, but at some time in the past! I also have a recollection of buying you some Jellie Babies in the past. (and in a pub come to that). P Edit: Never realised seating was an ingredient. What's it's e number?

Every workbench has to have some form of sustenance on it. (Note the box; not just a mere packet, of Maltesers on Mr G's bench!) P

After the fireman driver had spent a good 20 minutes polishing her. Porcy Edit: To apologise to the driver for down grading him.

You don't know how near the truth you are with that statement... Happy? No connection to LMS apart from subliminal marketing advisor. LMS models. Doing more for Scotland's Balance of Payments than the BOS could ever do. P Crosspost with Mr. G's Pic.

Maybe I should have been a Doctor... (Medical)

Nowt wrong with a load of crap behind the vice... P

Modellers licence. P

Looking back over the thread, horses feature quite often. Here's another: Porcy

Like a hand clawing its way out of a grave in a Hammer horror movie, the brake handle of a buried chauldron wagon points out the way its colleagues took for a last time over ninety years ago. About 20 feet downstream, a hexagonal axled wheel set, probably from the same wagon lies in the stream bed amongst the remains of a long collapsed culvert. Unlikely as it is; the railway term, "Gricer" developed in the same area. Porcy

Here's some links to phots of that turntable in use. http://www.traintesting.com/images/D344%20darlington%20bog%20rot.jpg http://www.traintesting.com/images/D344%20darlington%20bog%20rot1.jpg Porcy

Bill Bedford/Masokits et al type wagon suspension units have damping inherent in their design. It comes from the friction between the bearing carrier and the rear face of the W iron. The damping action works in a very similar way that the friction between individual leaves of a wagon spring smooth out oscillations. P

Grab shot through the car window earlier this afternoon. Edit: Forgot to say. Took while chasing this. The standard Armathwaite view that dozens of other snappers will have taken. Todays Cumbrian Fells Express behind Britannia. Porcy Edit: Just found this rather excellent video that shows the four Class Sixty sixers being slowed by steamers signals. https://youtu.be/jiPaJFIbqwc

But Arpster does: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/6450-blackgill-tyne-dock-to-consett-in-p4/page-2&do=findComment&comment=115247 FYI one has a Bradwell chassis, the other Comet both being joined by another Bradwell about now. Here's a pic of the Bradwell and Comet versions Consett bound. Go on Dave get it finished. You could even stick a set of minilight alloy wheels on it and they wouldn't detract from the overall look of the Loco as much as the c*ck up that Bachmann have made along the top front of the Boiler/firebox interface on most of their BR Std locos. How it should look: How Bachmann have rendered it. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/31927-Bachmann-9f-evening-star/page-2&do=findComment&comment=346508 (Scroll down to bottom photograph). I keep harping on about it but not all 9F wheels are/were the same and it's pretty easy to correct the crank throw on a set of Gibsons. If I can do it...blah de blah... For the umpteenth time here's a link to that pic again that shows at least two different 9F boss styles: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/94832-exactoscale-wheels/page-2&do=findComment&comment=1886078 The Rickster and I were just this afternoon talking about whether it's worth drilling all the way through the axles to give the see through effect as seen here: http://bigkris21.tri...pg&target=_self You could even build it with the wheels a prototypical scale distance apart then you could give it a run next year at Glasgow. Porce

Not sure if it was the lifting safety valve or a distant clap of thunder from the approaching storm that roused pooch from its guard dog slumber? I'm from the school that wonders about the validity of adding effects to photographs of models but would never criticise something without trying it first... Porcy

A 1963 Pic. One without stripe. https://flic.kr/p/dYXzvG Porcy

Your shed is far superior than my house! Porcy

Tugs on Tyne. P

325 Tyne Yard. Guess the year? Porcy All alright John?