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Broithe
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GSR "Bredins" 1333 and 1335 at Whitehead
Broithe replied to jhb171achill's topic in Photos & Videos of the Prototype
Health and Safety gone mad... -
Are they "virtual things" - for use in a simulator game?
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Enough to set your teeth on edge......
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Still on a dental theme, the vibratory toothbrushes can be quite handy for cleaning your intricate parts. The handles that take AA cells are much better than the rechargeable handles, I find - and, of course, you can use rechargeable cells in them anyway.
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Bugger! I got distracted about getting the gauge right.
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If you can't operate them directly with a straight rod, you might try Bowden cables. It's a bit fiddly to get working right, but reliable, when you do. The ones in the picture both worked pairs of linked points which operated synchronously, if that makes sense.
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Looks like you had a ballast, anyway.
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Great work! OK, it's a lot of ballasting, but the shovel might not be the best tool for application on such a fine scale....
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Interesting - this is a bit earlier. http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,711048,733307,11,9
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Some of the terminology seemed a little brusque....
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Worked for me - is that a station announcement in the background..?
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I wonder if the real reason they did it was to avoid modellers in the future arguing about the correct scale gauge?
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Top class work, but be careful with these replicas - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-35595103 .
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Or Ballygunge?
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Quite a gradient on that siding, too.
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Some MiG 19s took off from short sections of rail...
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In the winter of '63, that was virtually all we had - we had to really ration the coal, in case no more ever arrived before the summer. No electricity and the water supply was frozen. The only water supply for weeks was melted snow - I can still taste the paraffin in it now. We had an electric cooker as well, or rather, we didn't - so all the cooking was done on the Aladdin, too
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Another pair - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35598892 - Tu 160s again.
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Tito also had a Blue Train - with some familiar looking locos.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%27s_Blue_Train
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Photographic Website Updates
Broithe replied to thewanderer's topic in Photos & Videos of the Prototype
From the Wanderer's earlier comments, it looks like 8209 was a passive 'passenger'. -
"Spinning the disc" sounds so Olde Worlde now....
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As stated above, I didn't - in fact, I was well gone 50 when I got my first 'real' railway model - I had had a Lone Star die-cast set (or parts thereof), but that barely counts, I think. Few of the other military kids had one either, for the same logistical reasons. Living in England for most of the '60s, I don't actually remember more than one of the civilian kids having one - and his father was a solicitor. It was seen as a "posh kids" toy, I think, certainly in my circles. And houses were that bloody cold that, for six months of the year, you only really had the one habitable room.
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Times change - going in a car, or, even more so, a train, used to be a 'special' thing, now it's nothing, if not actually a chore. Fiddling with things in general used to be necessary, if you wanted them to work - now, I know people that don't even know how to open the bonnet on their car. If we had been offered the option of a train set or a helicopter that you could learn to fly in a couple of minutes...?
