edcayton
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Well, I think they are rather jolly. I'd certainly beat the 99p bid for an authentic model such as those! Ed
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Have a look at "planes you never seen before" on Youtube, there are some splendid aviation examples of the genre. Ed
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Because they are better sausages! Ed
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That's not funny at all! I'm unsure as to whether the car was moving at the time. Ed
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Does anyone remember what we called these things "back in the day"? The TOPS codes hadn't been invented so we used terms such as Brush Twos, Baby Deltics, Sulzers etc, but I cannot recall saying BTH type 1's or whatever. Any thoughts? Ed
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Freightliner terminals, an interesting modelling subject?
edcayton replied to Bruce Depot's topic in Intermodal/Containers
I wonder if it would be possible to combine the Faller(?)road system with a model of the Straddle Carrier, as seen on the BBC series "World's Toughest Driving Test" showwn a week or two ago? Ed -
All right, I give up! How do you get the ...... thing out of the box? I've got the clear plastic "bubble" out, but can't see how to get the carriage heating unit (is that a sort of kettle?) out of that. All suggestions welcome. KS had a fair few in stock just now, but no plain green ones. Ed
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Was there a "normal" direction of travel for these (ie long or short nose leading), or did they have controls facing both ways? Ed
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That would have been more realistic if you had used large radius points, especially for the crossover. Ed
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They did something like this in Colditz and built a glider behind it! Whoever gets this garage after you had better like Smart cars! Ed
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Next batch of Class 70's
edcayton replied to k-59's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
I have just read in the new Railway Magazine that 70001 was named "Powerhaul" with cast plates fitted to the solebars. Guess what? They took the loco out of gauge and had to be removed! Ed -
you could certainly use Warships, 08's and "22"'s in Cornwall (thinking St Blazey here), although Bulleid coaches would be a little harder to justify! Ed
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Having to doublehead class 22's to get them to work should get you firmly into the "how realistic etc" challenge. My Dad and I once saw THREE of them on a train at Newquay, and on asking the crew why we were told in no un-certain terms "to make sure the bleddy things get as far as Par!". Ed
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At Royston show a couple of weeks ago there was an HO model of a Glasgow terminus. It was a two level affair with a double platform passenger station up top" and a shunting yard below. Loco's were an 08 on the bottom, a couple of 26's on passenger and an old Playcraft 22/29 thing which looked OK and ran well-the guy took the body off and showed me the American chassis underneath! I thought the whole thig looked very good, and the guy pointed out you can get 4 coaches and a loco in pretty much the same length as 3+1 in OO. Ed
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Lovely. These two have always been my favourite ng loco's, probably because they look so "English". Ed
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thanks for that steve, unfortunately the link didn't work!
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I treated myself to the box set of Railway Roundabout dvd's at the weekend. and on the "revisited" volume it shows the inaugral Midland Pullman. The commentary says that the kitchen cars had traction motors on the outer bogies (so presumably next to the power cars). I was unaware of this. Can anyone on here confirm this? Ed
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cut into triangles
