John M Upton

That BSO (even better as a BSO(T)) would be nice if added to the N scale range too.

I'm sorry? A model wagon with a rotation counter is more accurate than a proper tape measure?

What a load of utter nonsense!!!

To be honest, I have never seen a photo of a real UP car bearing the 'We can handle it' line yet it has appeared on numerous different box car models.  I do wonder if it was applied to just one car for some sort of exhibition and the painting diagram with it on then got sent out by UP to all the model railroad manufacturers who have been pumping out countless models with it on ever since!

With regards to trying to trace a real box car by starting with a model, a lot of box car models are based on generic one size fits all toolings, the likes of Athearn Blue Box etc for example and whilst the livery and number they put out (by the tens of thousands I reckon) may have actually existed in the 12 inches to the foot world, any resemblance to the prototype design probably stopped at the wheels...

1 hour ago, melmerby said:

Commuting is down, leisure travel is up. (more days off due to WFH)

I can see the whole WFH thing being squeezed and reduced in the near future, there seems to be lots of people out on leisure pursuits whilst their bosses think they are working!

The general consensus is that with a General Election iminent, all the public sector pay disputes, railways included will suddenly be magically resolved to try and make the current Government look good to Mr & Mrs Voter.

Of course we all know (as do they) that the current Government are going to lose the General Election, it is just a question of how badly.

That means they can harvest the forest of magic money trees, promise absolutely anything they like, throw tons of money around like confetti and then leave the actual paying for it all and sorting out the resultant mess on the ever growing 'Let Kier Stamer deal with it' pile...

Still think going all in on TT:120 was a big mistake....

On 12/04/2024 at 21:01, U36B said:

Oh, by the way

Has anyone hints for BR Rail Freight colors (Humbrol/Revell) ?

RF gray?

RF Red?

RF light /medium/ dark gray?

 

Bit off topic here but for Railfreight red I have always used Humbrol 174 (which is also the paint I use for SP bloody nose red which gets it back on topic again!)  Avoid whatever the strange concoction that Railmatch call Railfreight Red, for that matter avoid anything made by Railmatch as their paint is pretty universally crap...

There also seems to be lots of hairy grot between the bogies and the tumblehome.  Definitely used and abused!!

Quite clean and tidy apparently!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176343919066

It's been trashed!!!  Numerous issues, missing cab glazing, some strange blue ooze around the nose end, damage to the paint work all over and I suspect the chassis may not be the original as the coupling area under the oozing end looks suspiciously bodged.

Trouble is, it is a GF Large Logo 37 and people are paying daft money for them...

Another day, another shambles....

Just South of Epsom, 132 minutes late.

Last seen on the maps, the empties were passing through Earlsfield, well off route and over two hours late.  Possibly points issue on the West London Line I think.

I don't go to bus rallys anymore (lack of time mostly) but have noticed that a lot, particularly here in London & The South East are becoming increasingly dominated by large swathes of comparatively modern low floor ex London vehicles and very little true vintage ones.

Also bus rallys have this increasingly annoying habit of parking vehicles supermarket car park style, so close together that trying to get a photo of an individual vehicle is nigh on impossible. 

7 minutes ago, phil-b259 said:

In the absence of more drivers or more rolling stock (both of which require authorisation from the DfT in Whitehall (who are still peddling the notion that trains are running round empty) any changes that Southerns do make were always going to be a robbing Peter to pay Paul sort of thing.

 

 

As an example, GatEx Class 387's are scheduled to be used on the Coastway West from June, to Southampton and/or Portsmouth from Brighton.  There was a route clearance test run a couple of weeks back.

They have changed the plan a little from the original proposals.

So the service pattern Monday to Friday should be:

2 trains per hour Brighton/Southampton (both now stopping at Woolston)

1 train per hour Brighton/Portsmouth & Southsea 

1 train per hour Brighton/Chichester all stops via Littlehampton 

2 Trains per hour Barnham/Bognor 

2 Trains per hour Bognor/Victoria via Horsham (attaching/detaching Portsmouth portion at Horsham) 

Those Portsmouth portions, one becomes several stops Chichester to Portsmouth Harbour, the other is all stops (except Bedhampton) after Chichester to Portsmouth Harbour.

The Littlehampton/Victoria via Hove remains unchanged. 

Sundays also remain unchanged!

Endangered species, the Bognor to Littlehampton shuttle, discontinued in favour of a half hourly Bognor/Barnham only from the June timetable change.

Arty night shot at Gatwick Airport whilst waiting to drive down to Bognor this evening. 

Thameslink is such a dull operation that an eight car 700 going to Brighton is almost a "interesting" variation.

Yawn...

There was that strange thing, particularly in the 1980's was that stamp/coin/banknote collecting was seen as a sure fire way to make money, an investment for the future and there are still a few misguided fools who still think that a stamp collection et al is a golden ticket to fame and fortune....

...it isn't.

Much like all those diecast model buses and Lledo promotional vans of some years ago, pretty much all are them are now virtually worthless.  I have my father's sixty year stamp collection to deal with at some point, in reality I will be lucky if I get enough to cover the courier charges to get it to a dealer.

1 hour ago, Tricky-CRS said:

Thank you for your order and interest in my range, I print on demand and still catching up from having a weekend off away at York Show. The website and invoice do say please allow 14-20 days for despatch, due to printing on demand. I mainly print at weekends as I work during the week, that said yours went in the post this morning, well ahead of the 14-20 day target.

 

I hope you are happy with your kits when they arrive.

Thanks for the update. I couldn't remember when I placed the order!

If the Alexander coach works out well, I may be back for some more all being well. 

Not entirely.  Southern does have the red 387/2s operating on the GatEx/Brighton fudge and sometimes elsewhere.  Also, and depending on how you define "railway", the erstwhile Central Division sees 700s and 165s.

387's also come in white...  Coming soon apparently once Great Northern get the ex Stansted Express 379's.  Until then from June the red Gatwick Express ones will be going as far afield as Southampton which ironically loses its direct trains to Gatwick at exactly the same time...

On 10/04/2024 at 02:21, Wendell1976 said:

 

If you need help in getting the correct(or close to correct as possible) railroad colors, here is the Internet link from the Model Railroad Hobbyist forum that will guide you to download the railroad color chart:

https://mrhmag.com/subscribers-only/painting/acrylics

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

Unfortunately that link is for subscribers only.

On the subject of paint, does anyone have a suggestion for UK available rattle can (e.g. Tamiya or Humbrol) that is a decent match for Conrail blue please?

What is the average delivery time like at the moment? I ordered an Alexander T Type on seeing the ad in the most recent NGS journal.

Orange 59102 on 6O68 through Chichester today:

2 hours ago, Darius43 said:

The Usual Suspects

 

Pick this one out of the line up…

 

I can see two driving coaches amongst the various units but no sign of the centre cars.

 

Cab masking could be better but it may be down to the quality of the resin cab casting.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

The description (and indeed the photos) is a load of utterly irrelevant waffle, just show the item that is actually for sale for gawds sake.

...plus (among other sins) there never as such a thing as a steam locomotive in Conrail livery!!!