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Post by charles on Feb 26, 2012 14:30:28 GMT -6
Hi all! You can all blame Swampy for this thread - he did wonder where my pics of trains were ;D ;D ;D !!! And Swampy, I DO still love you man ;D !!! Just as soon as I can figure out how to upload pictures here (I've just tried with no luck !) I'll put one or two here!!! TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE Charles ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by swamprat on Feb 26, 2012 14:33:27 GMT -6
Pant! Pant! Drool........
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Post by skywalker on Feb 26, 2012 14:37:18 GMT -6
If you get an account with photobucket you you should be able to put photos here. It doesn't cost anything to use it. Or if you want you can post them on your facebook page and I can bring them over for you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2012 15:00:38 GMT -6
I love trains ! I found a piece of an old toy train while metal detecting a few years back, its really cool but the bottom was missing. I looked all over the place for the rest of the set but it was in the middle of the woods in no mans land.
I also have 2 sets of battery powered trains which can join together to form one large track with many accessories. I'm still a kid at heart ;D. Its fun when the grandkids come over,,,lol,,,.
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Post by charles on Feb 27, 2012 5:00:52 GMT -6
Hi all! Fingers crossed that these piccy's will load! Class 57. Pulls the Night Riviera sleeper service from Penzance to Paddington and vice versa. The 57's run by First Great Western are named after Castle in the west country. Pendennis Castle 57 604. 67 006 - Royal Sovereign. And again! And again! Her Majesty the Queen. 67 006 Name plate. Penzance Station. Guess where ;D ! Big Monster ;D ;D ;D Little Monster ;D ;D ;D Okay, I'll leave it at that for now!!! TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles
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Post by swamprat on Feb 27, 2012 9:47:26 GMT -6
Impressive, Charles! But how do you fit all of that in your back yard?? I was expecting a "garden railway"!
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Post by charles on Feb 27, 2012 10:00:42 GMT -6
Hi all!
Swampy my dear friend - I'm working on that and I'll get some garden piccy's sorted out to show how far it's got to - and hopefully what will be achieved this year :-) ! This is a bit of a what it is I'm modelling and what trains I can justifiably run on it!
TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2012 10:39:14 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2012 22:50:21 GMT -6
Only the Queen Mum looks great in that color of green!
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Post by charles on Mar 8, 2012 4:00:30 GMT -6
Hi all ! Just thought I'd drop another piccy or two in (and these are from the back garden !!) One of my crack team of foundation layer cement levellers ! This was in 2009 when the blocks started going in. This is the height of the layout (about 2feet and an inch or two!) And this is where it's at today! The hard part is trying to get it in all in one photo! And then the other thing to note is that it will be about twice the length on the other side of the garden when that gets built ;D !! Okay, I'm gone for now! TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by swamprat on Mar 8, 2012 7:20:23 GMT -6
Ah! It is very important to have good helpers!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 10:29:58 GMT -6
Ah! It is very important to have good helpers! It looks like the apprentice did a pretty good job floating that mud Charles ! ;D He's even holding the float right ! ;D If he keeps that up he will be a journeyman before he 's a teenager . ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 11:07:09 GMT -6
Hmmm someone tear down the great wall???
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Post by charles on Mar 8, 2012 15:18:37 GMT -6
Hi all ! Swampy- you sure can't beat that kind of free labour - it always helps when you tell him he can run some of his trains on it when it gets done ;D ;D ! Cliff - that monster is now a teenager & beginning to learn how not to upset mummy or daddy - something to do with consequences of actions (and he occasionally surprises us with understanding another persons feelings - which is good going for one who lives with autism !!!) ;D ;D ;D LOL!! Considering I'm a retired mental health nurse, I don't think I did too bad on training him up ;D ;D ;D !! Jo - I thought I'd start local & take Hadrian's wall first, then work my way around to China ;D ;D ;D !! Having said that, the loco on the track actually made it's way here from China where it was manufactured (and incidentally is 76 times smaller than the one in the first pic on this thread !) ! Just another one or two to show that i did put a little track on and run a Class 57 locomotive for two minutes on July 4th 2010! My lovely wife Lorna's G Gauge track! And some interesting sleepers that I hadn't seen before! I'd seen wooden ones and concrete ones, but never before steel! Apparently they're good if there's a derailment or the like as they just buckle & twist rather than shattering or splintering which according to railway staff makes it easier to get the line back up & running again! Okay, I'm gone for a bit! TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles
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Post by lois on Mar 8, 2012 20:54:49 GMT -6
If you get an account with photobucket you you should be able to put photos here. It doesn't cost anything to use it. Or if you want you can post them on your facebook page and I can bring them over for you. I joined photo bucket like Patty told me to. So I could put pics on here, but none it made sense to me. What size it wanted to know. It I knew what size, I may of done been able to do it years ago. I still never go there. My photos are safe on facebook and believe me I keep a lot of them there as you know sky . have you ever counted my albums there? ;D ;D ;D Good Luck Charles. I would love to see those trains myself. I collect toys a bit. I have sold many, I would give my right arm to have back. I found some Coke Cola today at a large estate sale.
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Post by lois on Mar 8, 2012 20:59:37 GMT -6
Charles Wow!. that is so neat. I know you work in that yard a lot. I have seen your summer photos for a number of years now. But never any trains, that I can remember. I also can see Photobucket was a wiz for you. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by lois on Mar 8, 2012 21:01:48 GMT -6
Darn I'm getting a very wide screen right now . It happen after I hit the post for the first post. Can some one please tell me what I did or how to get the right screen back. I hate trying to read anything this way.
Lois
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 22:37:31 GMT -6
Amazing Charles..it's going to be beautiful
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Post by charles on Mar 9, 2012 4:38:26 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Mar 24, 2012 16:08:06 GMT -6
Hey, Charles! In case you need to replace some track, you might borrow these guys!
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Post by charles on Mar 25, 2012 13:12:16 GMT -6
Hi all ! Swampy - oh man that's good ;D ;D ;D !!! Thanks for putting that up - it made me smile and go 'wow' & the like under my breath watching how it's done on the 12" to the foot one!!! As a little aside, when laying ballast on a model railway one of the best ways to glue it is to use a 50/50 solution of water & PVA glue with a drop of washing up liquid to break the surfae tension and allow the glue to permeate through the ballast & bind it. On real railways, although the ballast is mostly held together and bound by the pressure of it being tamped down and being tightly packed, where curves are elevated to allow high speed running or there is an increased risk of land slippage the ballast is then held together with......... yep, you guessed it - PVA glue ;D ;D ;D !! Okay, ironing & washing up now beckons - but I'll try to get back later ;D ;D !! TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D xx
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Post by plutronus on Mar 25, 2012 14:40:01 GMT -6
Hi all :) ! . . . . And some interesting sleepers...wooden ones and concrete ones, but never before steel! Apparently they're good if there's a derailment or the like as they just buckle & twist rather than shattering or splintering which according to railway staff makes it easier to get the line back up & running again!
Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles
Hi Charles, Great photos of the full-scales and the scales too! And we see you what wanted to do as a kid, hmph, hee hee when you grow up! Yep..trains are really kewl machines, and its interesting to realize that there would likely be no engine-eers today if it were not for the rail-road engines and the guys who made them work... :-> Dealing with an autistic person is a challenge, I tip my hat to you & Lorne. And dont'cha love it when a plan comes together?! (as George Peppard chew'in on his stogie, was known to say). And especially if it actually works!! Re; the bricks in the yard for the mini-choochoo's. And..maybe you can answer a long term question that I've had regarding the history of rail-roading...something called a 'snake-head'. As I understand it, a snake-head had something to do with the rails peeling up and slicing through the bottoms of the coaches, but did not derail? It was a big problem at one time (kept the price of traveling cheap too, one might suppose?) Can you shed any light on this on for me? Thx, plutronus
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Post by charles on Mar 26, 2012 2:47:31 GMT -6
Hi all ! Plutronus - thank you for your comments !! In regards to George Peppard - 'Hell Yeah!!!' . It's taking it's time slowly but surely and I know that (unless we suddenly get non-stop awful weather between now & autumn, which here in the UK can be a distinct possibility ;D ;D ) at least the track for the station area should be installed this year along with hopefully the platforms too ! Now, a snakehead?? That's one I've not yet come across! off the top of my head, I take it from your comment that you're looking early 20th or late 19th century for this. My guess, until I can interrogate some fellow train likers to find out more & try to repost Wednesday, is that the sleepers may well have not been: - a) treated too well with creosote or tar, leading to it cracking with fluctuations in weather conditions, or...
- b) properly packed underneath with ballast (this I believe could lead to the weight of the train pushing down on the rails thus snapping the sleeper in much the same way as if we were to snap a pencil!)
Hope to catch you soon with more info! TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles
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Post by skywalker on Mar 26, 2012 9:46:45 GMT -6
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Post by charles on Mar 26, 2012 14:47:22 GMT -6
Hi all! Sky - thanks for that mate ! I must admit, I like finding out about historical technological problems and how they either overcame it or found ways to avoid it. Sometimes it's that 'outside of the box' thinking that gives us our greatest leaps !!! TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles
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Post by skywalker on Mar 26, 2012 20:04:10 GMT -6
The article said there is a section of the old track abandoned up in Michigan somewhere. If I ever get up that way I might try looking for it so I can take some photos. I like looking for old abandoned railroads...you never know what you might find.
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Post by swamprat on Apr 8, 2012 10:06:47 GMT -6
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Post by charles on Apr 8, 2012 15:08:12 GMT -6
Hi all! Swampy - thanks for that man - it's really cool hearing a train horn doing that kind of thing!! Sound is something I'm seriously considering for the garden layout - although it'll be in the region of another £100 per train for the decoder & speaker and then the fun of fitting them myself !! Should be fun though !! Lorna asked me just over a week ago if I could do something with her G gauge in the garden - so I'm giving her a couple of inches in height! Hopefully I can show something here (weather permitting !) in a week or so with some progress on the railways !! Sky - if you want I'll give you some hints & tips on following abandoned/disused railway lines. Give us a shout & I can go into it fairly well for you (I hope !!)! Oh yeah, Google Earth is good for it & I'll be able to give you relevant co-ordinates for illustration purposes! If anyone else wants that kind of stuff too, just ask & I'll see what I can do !! Okay, gotta go play with little monster now - might be back later, not sure yet!! TTFN! Take care, seek peace and SMILE! Charles
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Post by skywalker on Apr 8, 2012 16:29:54 GMT -6
Thanks, Charles. I've always been interested in trains ever since I was just a little dude. My family's house was only a couple hundred yards from the tracks and I used to walk all the way down them to school every morning...(about 2 miles one way )...so I was always watching the trains as they went thundering by. If you are interested in unique trains here are a couple of sites to check out about America's Freedom Trains. There were two different trains built, one in 1947 to commemorate the end of WW2 and another one in 1975 to commemorate the USA's 200th birthday in 1976. freedomtrain.org/main.htmfreedomtrain.org/american-freedom-train-home.htmI actually got to see the second one in 1976 as it came roaring through my hometown of Lampasas, Texas. We lived just a couple hundred yards from the tracks so we all went down to watch it come through. It was really an impressive sight all painted red, white and blue with stars and stripes all over it. It had two different locomotives pulling it when I saw it. I remember one of them had a really unique sound to its horn.
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