PhilH

I don’t know if this has been on before but if you have, or know someone with, a 3d printer there are several free .stl files of WDLR wagons on Thingiverse. A,B,C,D & E type wagons are represented, just look for user Bblr.

Also on there is a Simplex 20hp loco along with a Crewe tractor. They are drawn in 19mm scale (I don’t know if that’s a thing not knowing much about narrow gauge stuff) but obviously easily converted to other scales in your slicer.

I will also post this in the 3d printing section.

16 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Sadly the law, for nearly 200 years, has not agreed with you, however unreasonable that may seem. 

 

If some scrote chooses to cut a hole in the fence to make a quick route across the railway, and something horrid happens, be it to an adult or child, the railway is held responsible every time. It is the railway's responsibility to maintain that fence regardless. I've no doubt plenty of beaks have recognised the impossibility of this situation in some urban environments, but that is the law and they have no choice but to prosecute accordingly. 

So what happens with the, for me, elephant in the room, the 750v unguarded third rail. We seem to have a couple of fatalities and injuries every now and then due to perhaps people who have over imbibed for example coming into contact with the third rail. This would seem to me to be a far bigger problem than perhaps the one under discussion.

2 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

Thats the concern, what happens when someone says no to him, or he gets bored ?

Without boring everyone with the detail of it a lot of his stuff is tied up in trusts so if he finishes then at least some of it would carry on. I doubt very much that the motive for that is altruistic, he is a clever man and knows down to the last penny the price of a tin of beans.

6 minutes ago, Night Train said:

Isnt it the responsibility of a journalist, or national news company to check what they print is factually correct?

If CBS told them King Charles was gay, would they print that too? Or would they try and ascertain the validity of that statement?

Seriously? The truth never gets in the way of a good story.

2 hours ago, adb968008 said:

 

 

 

 

I still dont see how lsl makes enough money to be self sustaining long term either.

 

 

 

 

LSL never has been concerned with making money. Hosking is worth a bit under £400 million, makes oodles from his other ventures and can make losses at LSL to set against other income. If you could have seen the money that was thrown at it when I was there with no hope of getting a return on that it would have made your eyes water.

https://www.elegoo.com/en-gb/blogs/3d-printer-user-guide/elegoo-printers-resin-setting-sheet

you can download basic settings for different resins on this page

I've just been reading a timeline of events taken from the ships black box, apparently just over a minute of power outage was enough to precipitate this disaster. In the same article I noticed this which, given the size and high volume of ships which use this port, to me just beggars belief.

"An official also said that the Key Bridge was fracture-critical, which means "if a member fails that would likely cause a portion of, or the entire bridge, to collapse, there's no redundancy".

On the face of it a disaster waiting to happen.

3 hours ago, Darius43 said:

 

Close up of bridge pier showing the treatment at the water level.  I doubt that it would be practicable to install fenders (as such barriers are called) that were independent of the bridge piers, so as to stop the impact load being transferred directly to the pier, in 50’ of water that were capable of absorbing the immense kinetic energy of a ship like that striking them.

 

Darius

When you look at rake of these ships' bows wouldn't the damage have been done in this case before the ship actually hit a fender like this?

33 minutes ago, w124bob said:

My old boss(now deceased) went to work for them after retiring as a train crew manager(ex driver) he certainly was someone who went from rule book stickler to "lets play trains", the Wootton Bassett incident was in his era as WCRC driver manager(or what ever he called himself) . In fact I know several colleagues who did or still do work for them and I always get the impression it's just one big trainset. One ex boss was a regular at driving for WCRC whilst at the sametime being the on call manager for the TOC I worked for. 

I have no axe to grind either way with regard to West Coast but in the interest of fairness I will say this. I was associated with LSL for five years and covered a fair few miles on the footplate out on the mainline as owners rep for them. At the time LSL were not a toc and therefore hired in drivers and fireman from both DB and West Coast. In my experience WC crews were no different than DB crews in terms of taking the job seriously and certainly did not give the impression that they were simply playing trains. We had alarms and surprises when on trips with both but both sets of crews dealt with them in a professional manner.

41 minutes ago, 62613 said:

what would happen when the vacuum is destroyed when braking? 

In simple terms vac brakes depend on a vacuum being maintained on one side of a piston in a cylinder whilst atmospheric pressure is introduced to the other side of the piston when the brake valve is actuated.This is often referred to as the train pipe side and the chamber side. Therefore there should always be a vacuum on the chamber side of the system otherwise the brakes wouldn't work.

2 hours ago, black and decker boy said:

 Lots of hints of MK1s being fitted with CDL at Carnforth so let’s not panic and jump to conclusions 

Come on, this is RMweb!

I didn't realise until recently that the NRM workshop contained that most valuable of tools for the maintenance of steam locomotives, a wheel drop. I hope that that at least remains available for use, unfortunately it's not something that can be moved very readily so if it were not to be available for use anymore it would be a crying shame.

I don't know if this has been on here before I found this fascinating and quite frankly incredible. I'm definitely going to have to visit this place before I push up daisies.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/234342143003228?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V

13 minutes ago, mike morley said:

 

How well do they take paint?  I'm thinking of the cleaning fluid with which I assume they are impregnated.

They seem to be made of a quite strong material, or at least the ones I bought about two years ago do, and stand up well to rinsing out in water to flush out any cleaning fluid. If they still have them It has to be worth investing a quid.

Poundland glasses (spectacles) cleaning tissues.Dried and ironed to get rid of folding lines however these can be prototypical as tarps were folded when not used.

One other thing before you do a lot more printing. Make sure you order and fit a protective screen over your LCD. They're like the house insurance of 3-D printing.... considered expensive and unnecessary until you need them. They can save your LCD screen from resin spills and leakage from holes in your fep, screens don't take kindly to having resin on them.

Obvious but I take it you've done the build plate level and removed any protective transit film from the LCD screen?

29 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

 

 

It gives added advantage of a 2 hour trip with two different trains, than a 5 hour trip with the same one throughout.

It also allows people to have more flexibility on their return time.

 

I doubt very much whether Mr and Mrs Joe public would want to spend that long on a heritage train, especially if they have the 2.4 children trailing along in their wake. Unfortunately on most heritage railways these are people that pay their bills, not the majority of enthusiasts who see it as a badge of honour not to spend more money than is necessary during their trip.

I base this opinion on my experiences and conversations during my time volunteering on a heritage railway.

I would add to others comments , really must get to see this layout. As someone who volunteered at Ropley for 30 odd years it is fascinating to see it created to such a high standard in miniature.

1 hour ago, No Decorum said:

This was one of the clever ideas adopted for the BR Standards. It meant that it wasn’t necessary to drain the entire tender to clean the filters. No-one realised that during winter, the large body of water in the tender resisted freezing overnight but the small amount of water in the sieve boxes would freeze. 

That's why the whole bottom of the box is a flap that can be undone and opened so the box drains. When we were carrying out frost protection on standard locomotives on the Mid Hants this was part of the procedure.

7 minutes ago, RFS said:

Is it this box on the tender frame between the 1st and 2nd axles? There's on on each side of mine.

 

 

 

As above that's the sieve box

If it's box like it could be the sieve box on the side of the tender chassis underneath the tank

It did look like the first pic , scratchbuilt Strabokran, the rest 3d printed by me apart from some heavily butchered kit figures.

Now it looks like the second pic, I dropped it…

To expand on that I would say that certainly at elite level to call  it sport is somewhat of a misnomer. In my opinion it's business pure and simple.

2 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

I’m surprised you need to ask:

 

- first we have a thing;

 

- then we have another thing, which is a tiny bit different from the first thing;

 

- then, to avoid confusion, especially among people who struggle a bit with ambiguity or gradation, we create a hard, defined boundary between the two things;

 

- then we arbitrarily define one thing as better, morally superior, to the other  thing;

 

- then some people who engage in the declared morally superior thing can pour scorn , derision, and later perhaps even hatred, upon those who engage in the other thing;

 

- this makes some people feel big, and others feel small, and all too often it gets taken to extremes and leads to physical as well as verbal abuse, and one day that ramps-up and someone gets killed;

 

- then there is revenge, and more killing, and eventually a war, in which huge numbers of people get killed;

 

- when enough people have been killed, and bestial cruelty unleashed, regret eventually sets in;

 

- then everyone looks at the two things, and realises that the two things actually have more features in common than differences, so they decide to call them “one thing”;

 

- return to start, and begin again.

 

 

This can cause confusion as where I come from they’re called fings.