Interesting pictures...

[Flying Snail]

Well, I'm told that one of bench marks for good art is that the longer you look at it, the more you see. Really good art should ask questions of the viewer and challenge their perceptions, surprise them etc. etc.

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Clearly this Christmas Train belongs in The National Gallery or MoMA 

 

Edited October 25 by Flying Snail

[Galteemore]

Swindon outlet Cadburys. LGB hand painted by looks of it. With a much bigger loco outside the shop door….

Edited October 31 by Galteemore

[Broithe]

Spain...

This could take a while to sort out.

[Broithe]

This could be an inspiration for the continental boys, if they want a decent-sized shunting layout.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seevetal-Maschen,+Germany/@53.4070883,10.0510059,1361m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x47b1946f43793b07:0xa263df5063de3e0!8m2!3d53.3774197!4d10.0348263!16s%2Fm%2F06w56r3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTExNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[murrayec]

Came across these in my Da's  photos;-

Connolly station back in the 80's

Eoin.

[spudfan]

The lectricerty was off from 6.15am until 8.20pm this evening due to Storm Bert. Seems Mr Bert will be back in action tomorrow so candles and wind up lamps still on standby.

[spudfan]

Further to the above. To cope with the above I think that manufacturers will need to offer a wind up clock work facility as well as DCC ready and DCC fitted on their locos....

[spudfan]

If Mr Bert had arrived a few days earlier I might have been in a spot of bother...

[Galteemore]

One of the unexpected side effects of my advancing age is the ability to exist in a state of more or less endless annoyance at the world. One thing which fuels the fires of rage is the representation of railways in commercial artwork such as adverts etc. The designers seem determined to combine every kind of trope, gaucherie and stereotype to produce the most banal prototypes imaginable. A notable exception came under my gaze in the old Swindon works tonight - a carefully observed tribute to the GWR on a chicken restaurant. Not strictly prototypical but real observation has gone on here….

[Mol_PMB]

It looks like the restaurant might need to add mutton to the menu...

[Broithe]

When it became compulsory for the local paper in Stafford to 'illustrate' every story with a picture, however unnecessary and futile it was, I used to keep a record of the more pointless ones.

Two of the stories  were about issues at the station - one was about problems with the taxi rank and the other was about a track failure at the northern end of the station and the associated disruption it caused.

The articles were accompanied by a picture of a taxi rank and one of trackwork at the end of some station platforms.

The taxi rank was clearly not Stafford, as it was indoor, and a bit of work established that it was a picture from Edinburgh Waverley.

The trackwork was clearly Southern region, with its clearly visible third rail.

The point about all this rambling is that their editorial office was on the first floor of a building overlooking both the taxi rank and the northern end of the platforms - for some reason, it must have seemed more like 'journalism' to use ludicrously inappropriate pictures. Or they had a very impressive telephoto lens...
 

My favourite one, though, was a story about a bloke taking a court case over a claim for industrial deafness - illustrated by a generic picture of a random ear.

At least it was a human ear.

[jhb171achill]

When the Malahide Model Railway Museum was in planning stage, Fingal Council had employed a Scottish "consultancy" company to do much of the design and layout work.

It was left to me to liase with the representative from this company, who infomed me that he "didn't know the first thing about trains or railway museums".

Yup, you heard it.

With difficulty, I persuaded him NOT to use a logo for the museum which would have clearly shown an indian "YG" class 2.8.2............................

Yup, you heard that too. I despair.

[NorthWallDocker]

There is no emoticon to depict "the ability to exist in a state of more or less endless annoyance at the world."

[jhb171achill]

24 minutes ago, NorthWallDocker said:

There is no emoticon to depict "the ability to exist in a state of more or less endless annoyance at the world."

We could employ that Scottish consultant to design one, perhaps ….. and he might come up with a 29 class railcar with seven wheels….