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If only somebody could have predicted this would be a bad idea!
Queensland’s state library launched an AI war veteran chatbot. Pranksters immediately tried to break it
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17 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:
St George's Day today, also William Shakespeare's birthday and death day.
Bring ale and pie!
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2 hours ago, SRman said:
To be fair, Graham Kennedy who hosted Blankety Blanks was gay, himself.
It was an open secret in the industry but not widely known to the public until he died. He include some disguised hints in BB, if anyone remembers the "Cyril said" questions where he would put on a camp voice. Cyril was his middle name.
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Another Bety almost ready to return to service. Restoration after being relocated from Mackay taken only 14 months. Main line testing should start in a few weeks.
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6 hours ago, GrumpyPenguin said:
Maybe it's me - what scale are they please ?
Frateschi is nominally HO but there are some individual models closer to 1:80. The 2-8-0 is a common donor mech for On30.
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14 hours ago, kevinlms said:
It's worse than you think!
If you add up all the media outlets, with each one having social commentators, photographers, legal teams, researchers and other freeloaders checking up on it all, more money is probably spent than what the Royals themselves cost!
This was one reason I think it was sheer genius that Richard Branson gave Diana an unlimited supply of Virgin Atlantic sweatshirts she wore every time she went to the gym. It gave the commentators conniptions and played the paparazzi who had a hard time proving a photo was new.
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Ukrzaliznytsia has this morning announced the in house construction of 66 new passenger coaches by the end of the year and the refurbishment of 42 others retrieved from storage, 4 with improvements in disability access. 6 passenger coaches converted for medical evacuation. Also 15 suburban trains will be overhauled.
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I would actually put back the kickback siding, if the front of the board was finished as a canal wharf.
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D3 639 has returned to the main line in Victoria.
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The biggest culprit of shrinkflation appears to be breakfast cereals.
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A suggestion is ditch the engine shed. It's taking up space that could be used for another industry and more likely than not the loco would live at the junction or other nearby major station. In the case of the Newport Pagnell example above, it was mostly worked by Bletchley locos. A branch line terminus probably only needs water at the end of the platform.
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Correlation does not equal causation, right?
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On 16/03/2024 at 03:50, Bernard Lamb said:
One ex LMS set of coaches got as far as Hamburg.
There was even one of the ex-LMS coaches in WD service abandoned at Dunkirk that somehow ended up in Russia.
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I honestly don't see the point of superelevation in N. It sort of makes sense for Unitrack if you're running a Shinkansen around 381mm radius, but for Swiss standard gauge in N following prototype superelevation the outer rail would be less than 0.5mm higher.
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The 2900s are also used on infrastructure trains. This one includes the steam loco water tank which is going to Toowoomba for use behind the C17.
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On 07/04/2024 at 02:10, 2E Sub Shed said:
If you were around in the 1980's, a large part of the electronic valve market was being supplied with valves sourced from Russia.
Valves and related products such as Nixie tubes are still being made in Russia. The Russian government (particularly the military) is the largest customer. An unfathomable amount of equipment dating back to the 1950s is still in use and needs spare parts. In the 90s the factories discovered they could also sell valves to hobbyists in the West who, by most reports, consider them to be very high quality. I know somebody who owns a Hammond B3 organ and swears that if you can't get NOS GE or RCA valves, the modern Russian ones are the best replacement. That supply has largely dried up in the last 2 years for obvious reasons.
Back on topic, in many cases offshoring manufacturing is a false economy. In my day job a frequent supplier of electronic equipment decided to outsource manufacturing to China about 5 years ago. What used to be delivered in a couple of weeks now needed to be ordered 3 months in advance, but prices remained stable for a while. Then covid happened and global supply chains were disrupted, so delivery times became more like 6 months unless you were prepared to pay extra for air freight. Now we need to order and pay up front just to get into the factory's 2025 production schedule!
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7 hours ago, melmerby said:
3 days is 72 hours, at least it is in the northern hemisphere 😃
Drive for 3 days on the M25 and you haven't left London............
Driving for 12 hours per day, which is still on the dangerous side in WA!
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On 04/04/2024 at 05:10, Sidecar Racer said:
Australia: You drive for 3 days and you're still in the same state.
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7 minutes ago, Harlequin said:
It makes more sense when you understand that Bredon is a junction.
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3 hours ago, moawkwrd said:
Okay, I've spent some time this evening playing around with the layouts above - and I really need to buy AnyRail! I'll get around to it one day.
You could also have a look at XTrkCad which is free. Slightly steeper learning curve but very flexible.
I like the design. It can be operated to a sequence timetable and has plenty of scope for shunting.
3 hours ago, moawkwrd said:What do you guys think? Or is too shamelessly a rip off of Bredon?
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and we are all standing on the shoulders of giants.
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Something from the past that might give some inspiration is Bredon, which caused some heated debate in the pages of RM back in the day. While some dismissed it as a glorified train set, the scenery was outstanding and it had great operating potential in a small space for something deceptively simple (it makes more sense when you see it as a junction station). What was designed for OO in 6x4 might (just) work for TT in 5x2.5 with a bit of tweaking.
Here's the plan for OO Setrack: https://www.osbornsmodels.com/peco-setrack-oo-plan-7--bredon---a-classic-scenic-oval-layout-22372-p.asp
There are some pictures of the original layout here:
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