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Just waiting for it to pop up now. The avatar...

Much used by those in a particular trade.

I've done it with a lump of expanded polystyrene. It's free material, easily cut and adjusted for size and to sculpt a varied shape for the load surface. The 'load substance' can then be glued to the upper exposed surface. A bit of weight can be added by fitting a steel nut, or two, into the body of the load, via a hole from underneath. This then also gives to advantage of being able to remove the load with a magnet, without having to derail the wagon.

It's the Gilbert O'Sullivan fans you need to worry about.

A dangerous confession to make, especially so close to the border...

You could, perhaps, conjure up something a bit less insane-looking than this. https://www.instructables.com/MICROPHONE-HAT-hands-free-recording/ As long as the microphone is reasonably secure and out of the immediate blast, you wouldn't need to employ an assistant, glamorous or otherwise.

Another advantage of having the microphone off the camera is the avoidance of picking up 'mechanical noise' from general handling, operating switches, focussing motors, etc.

That kind of wind-muff can be very effective, you will usually see TV and film crews using them in outdoor locations. Even then, though, they have limitations and hanging them outside of a swiftly moving vehicle may defeat them. However, there is no great necessity for the microphone to be on the camera, you could locate it in a nearby, but somewhat sheltered, place, while the camera itself is out in the slipstream.

As part of my ongoing 'record every roadside pump in the vicinity' campaign, I was alerted to one that I had missed, even though I had actually walked past there recently on my lime kiln venture. This one is in Cullahill, Co Laois, just east of the old Dublin-Cork road, by a couple of hundred yards. Anyway, the point of posting it here is that, this time, I failed to see the notice on the righthand side of the gateway. G S & W R NOTICE Any person leaving This gate open is Liable to a penalty of Forty Shillings This location would be only a few miles west of the old Mountmellick/Kilkenny line and the station at Attanagh. Does it look genuine to the cognoscenti?

I mentioned this chap before - Dublin-based and with some very nice scenic stuff. https://www.gmodelscene.com/

I've been in a few stations that look like that on a weekend.

Bank? I'm having trouble sleeping at night now. Not just because of the worry of penury, but because the mattress is empty now.

It's a bit like a more complicated Schmidt coupling.

I remember it being next to the Victoria Hall and in front of the Police Station, but it's all fifty years ago now - amazingly. That is a much better arrangement now.

In Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, in the 1970s, there was a Spitfire in what was effectively a giant greenhouse. This was a monument to Reg Mitchell, not far from his childhood home. That was all very well in normal times, but the years 1975 & 6 were notoriously sunny, as the elderly amongst us will remember. All around the building were displays of model aircraft. These were plastic models and many succumbed to the extreme temperatures, even though every orifice of the building was left open. I remember convincing a visitor that a Liberator, whose wings had subsided to the floor, was actually a model of a folding prototype that was intended for Fleet Air Arm use, but the war ended before it could enter service.

It's all getting a bit Four Yorkshiremen... When I was a lad, the only train I had was a train of thought.

Chin Ho was a character in Hawaii Five-O, but I don't remember him ever chasing crooks with a tractor.

Just send a blank cheque and have faith.

I knew nothing at the time, but I had built a layout for an old boy that I knew and I went to a toy/model fair to get some bits for him. I saw one and bought it on a whim, for myself to have something to run on his layout. When we first ran it, it was immediately obvious that it was considerably better than anything we had become used to, in every respect. A fortuitous glance in the right direction, at the right moment, was all that it took. Up to that point, plausible carriages and wagons weren't too hard a prospect, but a decent loco required rather too much effort for me. It was an absolute transition in the market.

I would be inclined to use the 'silver glue' first, then attempt to mechanically reinforce that with the super glue. There are risks in all this...

Mmm, the glue will be an insulator, but you might get a result, if there is metal-to-metal contact when things are 'set'. Another 'solution', depending on the circumstances, might be to hold the wire in place with a bit of tape, allowing contact, and 'loading' the tape up via something resilient, pressing it in place when the cover is reinstated. There is a small piece of folded paper in my Seiko solar watch that stops the cell disconnecting itself - it's worked well for several years now, since I realised what was happening.

Using electricity to heat the water... A technology revived by Hornby for their live steamers. To be fair to the Swiss, if you have a 'real' steam loco available, you can just shove a big immersion heater in the boiler and a pantograph on the roof, so that you can run them (on electric lines) using indigenous hydro-electricity, whilst foreign coal was in short supply.

Galway Races. You're not safe anywhere... She may have stopped him because he only had one light working at the front..?

Mmm, maybe I should have started a specific thread? This one is near the TV mast at the top of Mount Leinster.