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We had inset rails all over the factory and the standard for the flange gap in the real world seemed to be just over half the width of ordinary footwear. This meant that you could expect to walk over a track without much care most of the time. But, if you caught it 'just wrong' and at a shallow angle, your ankle would fold under you, causing great hilarity amongst any onlookers.

I have suggested before that Accurascale is actually a money-laundering scheme that is necessary to keep the 'real thing' going in a practical fashion. Success at Accurascale is maintaining future success for the primary, but smaller, operation. Extracting money from the Big Island is essentially a furtherance of the War of Independence by other means. Or is that too political..?

I'm quite interested in Swedish models, or just Scandinavian, in general..

Take yourself back to the year 2000 and imagine trying to convince people that Murphy Models and IRM would be there in the next few years. We have been blessed with manna from heaven. But, we do need to pop a bit in the collection plate occasionally for the altar boys...

Yes, my paper records are 220 miles away, but the wagons are probably here, if I can find them.

Yes, I have one of each - different numbers.

If the mods could perhaps limit the pace of posting on this thread, it would give a bit more peace of mind to those of us that couldn't write a To Do List at this pace...

There are no true colours, particularly in photographs - just look at something which is half in sunlight and half in shade.

Next? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknose

These sailed past me on the ferry today, if they are of any interest to the box-lovers on here.

Proposed Luas route.

Allegedly an armoured Wickham - in Vietnam in 1967. Apparently also used in Malaya.

The walking group had a local venture today, to gain a few new victims, around Abbeyleix Bog. I spotted these relics at the coffee shop in the hotel carpark.

Mine was delivered on the 31st of February. Check the tracking...

Those of us off down at the bottom don't care about you points billionaires!

His response, when I reported on that video on our other forum... "Those boys from Dublin are trying to entice me into trip over and making me believe drinking Guinness is part of my job"

This is very sad news. I knew Andy slightly in the real world. We lived in the same area and he participated in the local forum that I police. He was noted for being a voice of sanity on there. I met him a few times at the local exhibition, but the first time was when I bought his ladders off him and he revealed both his identities to me, the ladders having been advertised on the forum. The ladders were superfluous, as they were moving to a bungalow. The ladders were immaculate, as was his way with most things. His last post on our other forum was on March 10th, thanking me for the 'birthday cake' I had posted for his 62nd birthday. He was last on there on March 14th, but he was never a prolific poster (67 in 12 years) and absences of a few weeks weren't unusual. I will miss him via both forums and in the real world.

Actually, the German ones had the means to hold a taildragger up in flying attitude. And - for the Continental H0 boys, there is even a 1/72 kit for that. Similar thing available in 1/48, too.

"Compass swinging" used to go on quite a bit.

Looking at a few pictures of the Heathrow fire - wondering if one of "my breakers" might be involved. My stuff wouldn't burn like that, but it could ignite other things. The big fires usually come from the 'bulk oil' devices, mostly the transformers these days, but there are still some old bulk oil breakers about and one of those letting go would be like a napalm raid by a B52. The newer breakers would disintegrate very sharply*, with a fairly brief flash and fire, plus a dramatic shrapnel effect, which might involve other equipment indirectly. They tend not to explain the details of these things publicly - and I don't really care any more... *We blew one up at a test plant next to the Kellogg's factory once, putting in a few of their windows and damaging things in the car park. I've always believed that they owe me some royalties for Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, as they were launched a few months later. I am 100% convinced that some debris entered the production and was felt to be an improvement.

Keep an eye on yourself - and the others. Sometimes you do just have to prioritise things - you can't do everything, even if seems as though you must. I remember the worry here when it was silent after the earthquake, not really knowing your location in relation to it. Your event will have been of great benefit in relation to the anxiety issues. There is nothing anywhere near as good as dealing properly with a real event for some confidence in yourself. Etc... But, you know all this anyway.

These are later and my 'memory' says the colour looked a bit 'greener' in the past. That is - https://www.flickr.com/photos/firehuse999/14598555280 And this was in front of me at the lights last year.