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I started with BR LM in May 1976. Student Technican Engineer was my job title. I spent 5 happy years training with many different departments within the S&T. My job, post training, was in the signalling drawing office in Birmingham, but after only 18 months I made the worst decision of my life and left for a job at Froude Engineering in Worcester. The money was far better, but it was the end of a career. One by one the heavy engineering jobs vanished from Britain, and I have never had any sense of belonging with any job I’ve held since.

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8 core alarm cable from ScrewFix is another alternative. 1845T £14.95 for 50m.

Use two bits of wire and join them in the middle with the metal bits of a small screw terminal connector. Makes it adjustable.

I use 2mm thick Fab Foam self adhesive black polyurethane foam from HobbyCraft / The Range as underlay, then PVA to stick the track to that.

I want you to want me - Cheap Trick

Peugeot 404 aka gasoline camel.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F132532228503 Very tempted in my search for a steam era car.

Can’t Get Enough of Your Love - Bad Co.

You Take Me Up - Thompson Twins

Another late mainline build worth researching for photos is the Stratford to Cheltenham section of the GWR.

Until some curb is put on the level of population increase both from immigration and procreation, this problem will never be solved. Since tackling either issue is political suicide, continuing congestion, road building, house building and even railway building are forecast for centuries to come.

Outside valve gear for the rear truck. No space for the ashpan otherwise.

Nowadays you have to chop down the cab, safety valve bonnet and chimney too. Looks awful

You have shown the protrusion of inside cylinders and outside cylinders as well, so the front truck is a 4cyl! This could be an inside 2cyl truck, which would help on curves, and be the high pressure, small volume truck. The front buffer beam needs to be attached to the truck, not the boiler too.

From the factory, or after refurbishment at Crewe S&T works, point machines were painted mid grey. This quickly weathered as brake dust and diesel smut landed on it. Two exceptions were the HW and EP motors which had white GRP hoods when new. Didn’t stay that way for long.

Sweet Child O’mine - Guns n Roses

The technique of laying bricks with successive courses projecting further out is called corbelling.

Pictures of Lilly - The ‘oo

BR once had a proposal to build containers which could be lifted on and off flat wagons by a skip lorry (dumpster truck). It could have saved the wagon load / less-than-wagon-load traffic from oblivion. I rather like the idea of a pickup goods train pulling into a wayside station with half a dozen lorries ready reversed up to the platform edge.

I suspect that even at 80:1 most model locomotive motors are used right at the bottom of their performance curves. Flywheels help to impove that situation, but ideally the higher the gearing the better. The formula for inertia (I) includes radius squared, and the formula for kinetic energy of a flywheel includes omega (radial velocity)squared so you are right to cram as big a radius flywheel as possible to maximise its effect. Long thin flywheels are bad engineering.

I’ll meet you at Midnight - Smokey

More Than a Feeling - Boston

Super 4 track is very close to scale sleeper spacing for 4mm : 1ft. The rail is of course deeper than code 100. I suspect that system 6 was an attempt to challenge Peco on one hand, and to achieve economies of scale by making one track for UK and European markets on the other.

A Man I’ll Never Be - Boston