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G-ONEE (OneAir B744) diverted to Amsterdam. Edit: HGO211 was an outbound flight.

I'm told there will be a table selling stock from Bob Phelps' "Green River".

The cost of renting the extra space seems prohibitive (plus lugging stuff upstairs to where you were last year. The main hall and downstairs area is quite sizeable tho. Catering will be a "Pop-up kitchen".

Kamiack Falls, HO, Burlington Northern in Washington State, 1970s: Central Alonzo, HO, Hershey Railway in Cuba, 1950s:

The NMRA BR Winter Meet on 17 February 2024 will be at the Stokenchurch Community Centre, Bartholomew Tipping Lane, Stokenchurch HP14 3RX. Half mile from M40 J5 and close to Risex which is on on the same day. Admission will be £5 for NMRA members and £10 for non-members, we will ask you to bring your NMRA Membership card on the day. Layouts: Kamiack Falls HO Central Alonzo HO Belle Vue Depot (On30) (TBA) N Traders: Anoraks Anonymous Sunningwell CC Mech Models Barry Clements (3D) Anglo-American In the B&B Tom Watson will be sell some of the late Bob Phelps stock amongst other sellers ( incl. @Gilbert?)

Have they said what it is specifically for? Might just be his usual motoring offences...

Sorry, there was a queue at the chippy. On the rare occasions that the planets align and I actually get the time to disappear off for a weekend to exhibit, I really don't care whether it is a commercial show or not. If I wanted to be really churlish I could turn down an invitation because I don't like the layouts that the host club builds, but that would be ridiculous. But what I also tend to do is raid the back of the cupboard for stuff to sell on eBay or at the show, and that can pay for a lot. My point was there is quite a large catchment area around the NEC (hence Warley sending three layouts), if your hotel is half an hour away then driving for an hour back to your own bed isn't so bad. It might be more of a problem for a magazine if they only want layouts they've featured but when I helped to run a specialist show nearby we managed to get a dozen different and worthy layouts every year and only a couple required accomodation. One demonstrator even understood the assignment and camped in someone's garden! Anyway, back to the show...

Because they live close enough to not need it? I'm amused by comments about commercial shows, when some exhibitors at club events try to claw back every possible penny as expenses, when they should just try to enjoy the weekend and appreciate that they have the chance to show or explain their work and skills to others...

It saves swapping the poles over, and is easier on the real thing with someone to hold the rope than on a model. I modelled that part of the YVT nearly 20 years ago, and later rebuilt it into a micro layout that is now with the Trolley museum in Yakima.

This is something recently highlighted to me because it's my favourite Yakima Valley in the 1970s, the street running on Pine St and 6th Avenue features as does the paved areas at the Fruit Row in Selah and the top end of the UP yard where they seem to be unloading plasterboard in the street...

How long is George's contract for? (Edit- another 2 years). I wouldn't rule out Hulkenberg or Albon, possibly ending up with David Beckmann from F2...

@doctor quinn, I believe he once sent a Powercab back for warranty repair. Plus he might know anyway...

Like no driver has ever moved teams before. If anything, there were team principles who encouraged it....(eh Frank?)

I'm sure Lewis did once say that he always wanted to drive for Ferrari. And the only thing that I think has stopped him so far is the fact that Senna never drove for them (although I'm not sure if he would have ended up doing so). If he was following in the footsteps of his idol, maybe he should consider moving to Williams?

The B4 bogies look too short and sit too high, but I was able to grind out the plastic enough and enlarge the hole so the mount would sit lower to give the correct buffer height with the Lima 11.2mm wheels that I had to hand (I could have brought slightly smaller replacements but decided to go with what was to hand). I converted another spare Lima HO continental coach into a jig by adding 3.5mm high plasticard blocks so the raised sections over the wheels sit on these and the boss is pushed through and fixed by melting the plastic with a soldering iron.

Before... After...

I've recently commenced a massive clear out, which includes eBaying my fleet of OO AC electrics and remaining stock, so took the opportunity to compare the Triang/Hornby 81 with this HO scale Atlas editions model. Apart from the blue colour used, the HO model is pretty accurate dimensionally and I'm looking at motorising it with a Lima class 67 chassis. Most of my modelling for the last 20 years has been in HO scale which compounds the issues of quality and track gauge of British OO. I got distracted yesterday when fixing a class 85 pan and removed the one from the 81 by melting the existing glued pegs with more gluqe, and will be replacing it with a spare Sommerfeldt 968 as per the OO model. Next up is the ride height of the Lima HO Mk2 coaches...

I've known of a few Exhibition managers who certainly made out that such a role was a full time job, although that doesn't take into account the thousands of volunteer hours needed over a show weekend. Anything but a small show is outside of the scope for one person to organise and coordinate anyway, and there is the moral dilemma of should you pay when someone is willing to do the role for free (although I do think Warley should have paid a designer for their website and show guide). The concept of exhibitors paying some kind of contribution isn't new, and often gets spoken about in order to get the job done- something non-UK outline modellers are used to with private Freemo events or European outline shows, although there aren't any of those at the moment. The expenses bill for my layout at Stafford was less than the price of an advance Warley ticket, thanks to my operator kindly only claiming for one 100 mile round trip because he would have gone to the show anyway, and me being able to offset my petrol cost against the free leisure miles out other car gets from charging at work.

3800 left, which is 475 complete circles or a helix 100' tall....!

There is a precedent with the driver's names, John Bachelor raced as John B&Q in the BTCC... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batchelor_(racing)

But one basic set of rules isn't going to suit every scenario. Someone with a 5k converted plumbers van or a 50k motorhome might find they get change out of the overnight stay allowance and their fuel paid in full, but would probably struggle to claim any extra maintenance contribution. A significant number of potential exhibitors may live a reasonable commuting distance away and might not even need accomodation, something else to be considered by an organiser if the exhibitor also charges for this if they have been put up in a hotel 20 miles away. Part of the fun of exhibiting was to take a layout elsewhere, it makes more sense to do that than expect people to travel a long distance to you, and there is the possibility of a reciprocal invite in return. The fact is though it is 2024 and things are a lot different and if a show decides to follow this lead they will have to do so with the knowledge that it can affect the viability of the event.

This is the magnetic coupling I designed for Athearn HO scale Bombardier cars. Without going into too many of the specifics, the key points I discovered were: The magnets are superglued in place but I had to solder the wires to small track pins that actually float in their housings so the head is attracted to the magnet- an interference fit was too unreliable. Magnets are 2mm and are more than enough to hold the train together - the couplings are polarised so can only couple one way but the coaches have each end labelled anyway so this isn't a problem. They will separate on sharp curves (less than 2' radius) without derailing, I could widen the slot in the coach to allow them to pivot more but they would still have limitations and the train still stays coupled. My lights were 5v LED strips so at a reasonable voltage and brightness you would see each coach was successively dimmer. The cure for this was to increase the supply voltage and add a 100 ohm resistor so the additional 1 ohm drop through each coupling was less noticeable.

Is that running on plain water? I did experiment with one about a year ago with the intention of having a couple of smoking factory chimneys, but had trouble with the mist blocking the chimneys, forming larger droplets and blocking the chimney or the port on the disk. The next step was to fit a chamber above the disk and use a fan to try to create an airflow, but never got that far.

The distance to the Iceing plant would be another factor, certainly in California you'd need load the iced cars pretty quickly. In later years big shippers would rent an empty mechanical reefer and only load and call for it to be picked up once the market price was agreeable to them. As for the train being too long for the loop, you have a pole, don't you? https://youtu.be/jRzexSCZ0Ok?si=ddgJ2ImwEcLJZ9Do

With all the talk of doom and gloom over the last week, may I highlight the modelling of Cuban Alejandro Cordoves, "Enamorado de Los Trenes": https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084988162960 No shows to exhibit at over there but fortunately he is able to show his work online, and his scratchbuilds use household items such as cut down toothpaste tube caps for wheels...