Jeff Smith

22 minutes ago, Nick Gough said:

Regularly used in GWR fencing as straining posts.

Yes, they must have recovered quite a lot over the years........

And a piece of bridge rail?

Just came across a couple of photos taken during assembly of a North London 4-4-0 in P4.  These show the fineness of the wheel width and flanges, and the track check rails and frog.  The short wheelbase bogie did not need compensation.

9 minutes ago, Mike Bellamy said:

 

Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review . . . . . . . see links below which hopefully answer many of the questions above.

 

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0947/6392/files/Scale_Gauge_03.pdf?14170005119962245460

 

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0947/6392/files/O14_track_articles_0.4a_digital.pdf?v=1664384451

 

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Correct, your second link is the one.....

There is a multi-page report dealing with hand-built O14 track from many years ago.  It has a data page listing prototype track dimensions for several 2' lines and comparisons of commercially available rail sections.  Unfortunately it is at home and I'm not.......

As mentioned earlier some lines used standard gauge sleepers cut in half so BH 75 would look too skinny.

3 hours ago, Indomitable026 said:

Paul,

 

Thanks for this information. I thought we may end up around this rail size, I also seem to recall using code 82 in the distant past, for either L&B or perhaps something American I was doing at the time - although I think that was flat bottom and all lost in the midst of time.

 

Yes I’ll give PECÓ a prod, as the current “crazy” track isn’t going to cut it with all these fantastic new models coming on stream and whatever follows in the future.

 

Cheers

 

Damian 

It could have been Micro Engineering On30 track you were using.  Still 16.5 gauge FB with regular square ended sleepers, available in code 70 and 83.  To me looks wrong for British O-16.5 but great for On30.

Some NG lines used standard gauge sleepers cut in half......

I know that all languages develop over time but hearing American terms like my bad and train station in use in the UK is disconcerting........sorry, a bit OT.......

You are definitely on the right track, the GVT link below hopefully will illustrate my methodology starting on page 3.  I made the track bed 6" above baseboard bottom which allowed me to install the Gaugemaster panel control.  I purchased 2'x4' 1/4" ply panels and 1"x2" bracing (the actual size is about 3/4"x1 3/4").  The baseboard height is 2' and assembly was done with white pva and a brad electric stapler.  It's a very light structure.

16.5mm......This is why I model the GVT, correct scale to gauge - well, almost......

However, closer than modelling 2' gauge in On30.......

5 hours ago, ERIC ALLTORQUE said:

It has me wondering that Boeings issue with the 737 is not trying to hold the skilled workforce and build team together,i see on Virtual Railfan that fuselages are train transported around from A to B. I take it thats the fuselage for the 737 and its assembled somewhere else?

The fuselages are built by Spirit Aerospace to a Boeing design.  Spirit is an ex-Boeing site that was spun off some years ago.

Northrop Grumman is also in Palmdale.

53 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

It was the McDonnell-Douglas boardroom style that took engineering out of the boardroom that has led to where Boeing is now with the accusations of cost cutting, poorly built aircraft and a general loss in confidence of their products.

I think Boeing Military is a very different organization to Boeing Commercial even though it was an ex McD-D site (St Louis and Palmdale).

11 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

the calamatous hand of McDonnell Douglas has rather hobbled it's ability.

Not sure what point you are making here.  Boeing inherited the C17, F15, F18 and AV8B, all of which are very successful for Boeing Military.

I’ve only seen the 5mm version which I use for structures, covering in embossed brick paper.

Watching Starliner approach the ISS……

A few more helium problems en route!

A great achievement from Space X........even though one engine failed to light on the booster....

Controlled splash down for both the booster and Starship.

I'm not sure what the reasons are for using foam, especially on fixed layouts.  I use well braced 5mm (1/4") ply.  All my layouts are portable/modular with ground level above or below track level being cardboard/ply formers covered with cardboard and then papier mache.  This is very lightweight and the 5mm trackbase will take screws etc.  

Is 25mm foam lighter than 5mm ply?

At last, Starliner made it to orbit.......

Good selection, a shame they can't all be housed inside.  Assume the Victor was a tanker when last in service.

Personally I would put a wicket gate across the path and continue the wicket fence to the baseboard edge, assuming the yard is all railway property.

A nice conversion, photos suggest though that the buffer beams were not painted red.

3 hours ago, Porfuera said:

Given that those controllers are pretty awful anyway (at least with TT:120 locos), I'd have thought it would have been a good opportunity to design a new controller, although perhaps it was more the case that coreless motors would push up the prices too much for such a new product.

I did not try the controller that came with my Easterner set due to the voltage difference (I used my Gaugemaster) but have heard bad things about them.  I would have thought that an acceptable controller would be a good thing to include with sets aimed at new modellers otberwise they might just assume the whole thing is junk!

9 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

 

That's also why many might consider COMAC. Outside of the western aligned bubble China is no more an enemy than we are and there is a lot of unease at the readiness of the US and Europe to impose sanctions. Not just the 'awkward countries', non-aligned countries with good relations with Europe and the US are looking at increasing trade in local currencies, reducing exposure to sanctions etc. Two examples near here are Indonesia and Malaysia, even Singapore doesn't see China as an enemy the way we might and maintains good relationships. China is also increasingly influential in the Middle East. The countries which don't have a problem with China represent an awful lot of airliners as well as the huge domestic market.

The COMAC C919 does have CFM engines although China is developing a replacement engine.

Personally I have no problem with Humbrol rail acrylics, but I brush paint and in any case they have been discontinued.  Unless I am able to bring back acrylic colours from the UK I just have to experiment by buying samples from Vallejo, Citadel (Games Workshop), Badger Modelflex, etc.  Modelmaster paints were also discontinued.