The Rail Enthusiast thread

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[QUOTE 2452812, member: 45"]I'm hoping to be at the NRM on Wednesday afternoon if any of you anoraks want to dribble with me...[/quote]

Sadly, I'll be emptying bins on the other side of the river, but I'll wave in your direction!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

[QUOTE 2452812, member: 45"]I'm hoping to be at the NRM on Wednesday afternoon if any of you anoraks want to dribble with me...[/quote]

Do you know, they have had to instal a full drainage system round The Flying Moneypit.... I mean Scotsman due to all the veg who dribble over it?
I wouldn't dribble over anything though, I passed that stage about 15 years ago.

 

[I like Skol]

I can feel my old habits calling....

Time to break out the Graham Farish N scale

Oh God NO! It's starting again. I've just been reminiscing about my kit built P&D Marsh class 45. Even as a young teenager, off the peg just wasn't good enough......

......... Nurse, quick, the screens!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I had OO models, still do in fact, but recently I bought my first ever N Gauge models, a German class 181 and '184 (a fantastic old Quad voltage type), along with several coaches.

I can only run them at my model railway club, but hey, its better than nothing.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Say, wasn't there a thread a few days ago about modellers on here?

 

[classic33]

Say, wasn't there a thread a few days ago about modellers on here?

This one?
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/any-fellow-modellers-on-here.129756/

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That's the one!

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 2452812, member: 45"]I'm hoping to be at the NRM on Wednesday afternoon if any of you anoraks want to dribble with me...[/quote]Let us know if the loco is still pushing, as opposed to pulling the coaches round on the display.

 

[classic33]

That's the one!

I know! why do you think I put it there.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I know! why do you think I put it there.

Nothing like stating the obvious, eh?

 

[Bay Runner]

Just found this

http://www.railblue.com/class_index.htm

Thats me for the rest of the nite

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Just found this

http://www.railblue.com/class_index.htm

Thats me for the rest of the nite

I just LOVE looking at pictures of open days so I can see how daft everyone looked!

That said, this well caught (and captioned) picture made me laugh - a cab ejection door!:

http://www.railblue.com/pages/Class 50/50029.SL.270681.htm

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'll head out to see/photograph locomotives of interest, when I know about them.

The 'Scarborough Spa Express' passes through my local station (& picks-up/drops-off there), so I took the child on it last year to York.
What a delight it is, to get up to main-line speeds behind steam
http://www.westcoastrailways.co.uk/sse/dates.html

The 'Scarborough Flyer' also passes through, but doesn't stop
http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/scarborough-flyer

That said, a couple of weeks ago, 'Alycidon' came through on a tour, now that was a nice sound

 

[Smurfy]

I had OO models, still do in fact, but recently I bought my first ever N Gauge models, a German class 181 and '184 (a fantastic old Quad voltage type), along with several coaches.

I can only run them at my model railway club, but hey, its better than nothing.

Burn him!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Burn him!

A lot of people do not like foreign things, even Northern Irish trains send them into a spin, which is so utterly pathetic to me!
I like to see how different countries have gone about solving the same problems regarding traction, and Germany was/still is one of the more interesting examples.

I also like Austrian, Swiss, Italian and Polish trains (purely because that's where I've been mainly).