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  1. skinner75
    Yep - same here. Very enjoyable watching to round off the weekend. Simple idea running the loco backwards up the hill to stop the water going into the cylinders. I like seeing the problems, and how they overcome them
  2. skinner75
    You gotta love the Russians playing with the UK like that - hail hail!!
  3. skinner75
    Judging by the state of the loco in the picture, it had more than a couple of 'offs' over the course of the trip!
  4. skinner75
    Me too - the appeal of long runs, or a large depot etc would be possible in N with the space most of us have available, unlike OO.
  5. skinner75
    Just a heads up that on Channel 4 at 8pm tonight, starts a five part series on building a model railway in O gauge, to run from Fort William to Inverness. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/the-biggest-little-railway-world-11785187
  6. skinner75
    https://chippedblade.wordpress.com/index/improve-the-performance-of-old-lima-motors/
  7. skinner75
    I may do - I'll have a root round this evening when I get home from work
  8. skinner75
    Stunning! The blue & cream is a lovely livery - a big improvement on the all blue with yellow stripe. I hope to pickup a set on the Munster Double tour
  9. skinner75
    Yep - big stout steel frame either side of a bridge at the level of the bridge would do it. I like your idea for the retractable bollards for LCs, only this would be very very expensive & time consuming to do
  10. skinner75
    Overpriced & overhyped junk - 'Emperor's New Clothes' comes to mind. Steve Jobs wasn't exactly a nice person either apparently
  11. skinner75
    Oooh - so the new Apple X can be unlocked by facial recognition ey? So can my Russian designed Yotaphone2, which came out in 2014 http://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-41254093/apple-suffered-an-embarrassing-failure-during-its-iphone-demo
  12. skinner75
    You are paying for the badge, and to be part of the 'club'. Certainly not for the best tech currently available! Also, it is a disgusting amount of money for a phone https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/12/apple_could_improve_iphonex_iphone/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/12/apple_our_stores_are_your_town_square_and_a_1000_iphone_is_your_future/
  13. skinner75
    You could try here for a replacement motor also: http://diesel-trains.co.uk/Lima_replacement_motor_kits.html or use an old cdrom drive motor even!:
  14. skinner75
    Came across these vids on a youtube session. Some seriously poor track conditions, on a most likely very lightly used branch line in the US. The line is the Maumee and Western Railroad in Cecil Ohio. The first one looks like a derailment is inevitable! The Burma Road would be in better shape I reckon update on the line above: same line again:
  15. skinner75
    What an interesting deviation for a For Sale thread, in the For Sale section. The info posted on tram depots will of course be unfindable in the future, as noone will think of looking in a For Sale thread for info on tram depots.
  16. skinner75
    because they know they'd get no government funding - US govt too busy pumping it into the military
  17. skinner75
    Maybe start a seperate thread on cameras? Over half the posts in this thread on IRM ballast wagons are on cameras. Starting a new thread with a relevant title would make it easier for people to find the info in the future
  18. skinner75
    I got myself a set - not a good idea to have a go yourself!
  19. skinner75
    PM sent John
  20. skinner75
    Like the saying 'a 20 footer' I think, but for smaller scales. E.g.- my car is a 20 footer - meaning it looks good from 20ft away, but when you get up close you see all the faults!
  21. skinner75
    You could get thick strands of pure copper wire by stripping heavy duty cable (for cookers say) - there'd be no problem with solder taking to that
  22. skinner75
    Interesting! On seeing the recent pic of 142 at Whitehead with the grey undercoat in parts,I imagined an 071 in freight grey, but with the white & tan band of the 141s original. Anyone handy at photoshop that could whip up this fictional livery to see how it'd look?
  23. skinner75
    Sad news. May the crew RIP
  24. skinner75
    would it not have been a hell of a lot cheaper to install a few I-beam barriers up the road from the bridge? Let the trucks smash into them instead - easy to replace a damaged I beam, and the truck driver learns a lesson
  25. skinner75
    stunning!
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