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Photos taken in October.

At one ladies' tea it was reported that the Pope had raised the urinals in the Vatican. He wanted to keep the Cardinals on their toes.

All the ladies laughed except one. She was asked if possibly she didn't know what a urinal was. "Oh, no, I'm not Catholic."

Another anniversary.

One of the biggest railway wrecks with no injuries and minimal damage beyond the train itself.

Frank was the early shift customs officer on the American side of the bridge in Niagara Falls. Every weekday morning Mac would trundle his wheelbarrow with his shovel under a sheet over the bridge from Canada to the States. Frank would check the load for contraband and then, finding nothing, let Mac in.

One day Frank says; "Mac, I know you've been smuggling something in for forty years. I'm retiring next week, but if you tell me what, I won't nick you."

Mac replies, " Wheelbarrows."

I don't think I've seen the Goods Yard one. Just how different is it (I don't like passenger trains.....)

 

Best, Pete.

well, I may not talk to you anymore.

The goods shed variant has a kick back headshunt coming off the nearest platform, then going into a 2-road goods shed in front of that platform. The rest of the plan is just as before. The extra space is 8" of width.

(My copy of 60 Plans for Small Railways is the second edition, 10th impression dated Nov. 1969. Minories is plan 49s, the expanded plan is 50s but they are not named.)

The bearings should be in the packet with the wheels -- little brass things.

The last time I built some, I didn't notice that the bearings (top hat type) hadn't settled all the way in -- the brim on the hat was caught on the inside bracing of the axle box. The wagon has axle boxes and solebar on one side canted outwards. A bit of work with drill file or knife on the other wagon let it sit squarely.

There's less problem with the brimless bearings.

Tell the modeller with the exquisite Gn15 layout (G scale on HO track) that you though a modeller of his experience would be using P4 or at least EM by now.

(Fortunately, he has a bit of a sense of humour.)

The Toronto Transit Commission installed Solari signs when they opened the Bloor-Danforth Subway in 1966. This connected to the end of the previous subway with a wye and the trains were supposed to operate to alternate destinations. There was a device mounted on the front car looking like a small tennis raquet that could be dialed to the desired terminus.

After 6 months the integrated operation was stopped.* The Solari signs remained for a long time and were used for trains not going the full length of the line. I don't recall if they were installed on both directions at a station.

*probably a candidate for most expensive track for length of time used.

Been done....Pudding Lane by G.M.R. at the 'YMR show at Camborne....

 

But in that one you can actually see the trains...

Produce a "London Tube" layout consisting of 2 street scenes connected with 20 feet of 2" pipe. And a small sound system.

I sometimes use a denture cleaner (bought for MIL but she didn't want it). Not sure how effective, but it's shaken the dirt of a number of wheels.

The size will fit an O scale bogie and smaller wagons in OO.

I think Baden is about as far west as they've ever gone and not many went that far even for 3 layouts.

William: I think I'm going to miss the new layout again! as we've booked a trip for July.

block bells: didn't one of the early P4/S4 layouts run with block bells? opening the boxes every morning with 3-3-3 all round? and the comment "I can hear the bells ringing but I can;t see an trains running".

Include, in with all the village and farm noises on the sound system, the Coronation Street theme music --every 5-10 minutes.

I was contemplating ways of going about modelling the "wrong" way.

I decided that what we need is build to P4 standards but powered on the Trix Twin principle.
And to get a second lynch mob from the other direction, use original Trix stock rebuilt to P4 standards.

EDIT - The link above shows my second example is in fact the all but identical R236 'Depressed Centre Car' which explains the different number and no buffers.

We were quite frustrated in Canada as the bogie wagons available here often came with no buffers but still with the big holes in the buffer beam. Nobody in Canada stocked buffers as extra parts.

An old episode of Last of the Summer Wine (was on the PBS channel tonight) (dates to the Seymour era) the 3 chaps call on the Vicar who really just wants to run his model railway. Blue streamlined Coronation visible. Have now forgotten the episode title.

Mal:

I don't use mail order much, but we were in New York last fall and Trainworld is located right at the bottom of the stairs from an elevated line (well, it's underground in Manhattan) which makes it an interesting scenic ride as well. Staff was really helpful with our obscure requests.

I saw this in a Borders store this summer (Borders was large book store chain which had gone bust) during their clear out sale.

"No customer washrooms. Try Amazon.com"

Sign was reprinted in a recent Consumers' Reports.

An episode of Last of the Summer Wine where Foggy is a closet railfan and Compo manages to start that GW Pannier in LT coours.

A Hard Day's Night -- if you turn the sound down there are scenes inside carriages (Mark 1?) including the guards section.

From the '50s -- Casey Jones, an American juvenile series with Alan Hale Jr (later captain of the Minnow) using the same loco as Petticoat Junction(?).

Not specific, but possibly a series of buildings that woulld fit over Peco or Hornby point motors that are surface mounted? It looks very suspicious to have the same platelayers hut beside each point.

Possibly a larger structure to go over the pair of motors for the 3-way points.

Do I need to find a supplier of A_n sized paper to print your kits? I don't think even the British Connection stock it.

My school friend Ross Wood's sister is named Holly.

If you label photos, be more specific than "me, mum, auntie Ivy".

When my father was going though some photos with us, he said "I don't know who the girl is that your grandfather has his arm around".

We also have a lot of very small snaps of the middle east WW2 campaign. Pictures of huts made out of jerry cans.

Another stop in Winter Park is the Morse Museum http://www.morsemuseum.org/ which will delight your girl friend and probably you as well. There is a railway connection -- Morse was part of Fairbanks-Morse.

My panels -- from the elaborate to the ones with Atlas electric switches.

St Mary Ax has a hand drawn track plan that's not shown; the plan is Minories. All points are manual.

The elaborate one (Exeter St Dayle's) is designed to slide into the top shelf between the books and the framework.

(Posted to show the other end of the spectrum from what has gone before)