Fetch it then , boy , it’s over there in Uxbridge .
Mike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciirQz0eKCE
No laffin’.
We had fun here, OK?
Just to let you know what it’s like over here with the ‘friendliness’ of fellow G scalers, I found out as we were packing up that two people, standing next to us all morning and part of the afternoon, had HUGE 45mm track layouts in their respective backyards - both in the village less than 400m away from where we were standing, and never once mentioned the fact.
Not impressed, moi.
tac
tac , my friend , I tried the above link and got a list of a couple of million hits .
Which search engine are you using ?
Mike
Thanks , tac .
Watched it , it looked like fun----I was pleased to see the kids taking an interest and having a go .
So were the adults . So I’d say that was a success .
Odd thing about the two other railway buffs , I suppose they are a bit reserved like most Brits . It would take a village hall get together to get them out I expect .
Mike
Let me put your video up proper…btw, I loved the paperclip coupler!
Thanks Joe - kind of you to mention the cunning use of the UCD [universal coupling device]/
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
PS - ig is under the table, yampfing on some LMP.
Mike Morgan said:
Thanks , tac .
Watched it , it looked like fun----I was pleased to see the kids taking an interest and having a go .
So were the adults . So I’d say that was a success .
Odd thing about the two other railway buffs , I suppose they are a bit reserved like most Brits . It would take a village hall get together to get them out I expect .
Mike
Well, over the last few years I’ve gotten pretty much used to that kind of stand-offishness here. Not once in twelve years has anybody come around to my front door and asked to see the noisy ol’ trains they can hear, and in three cases, actually see from their adjacent windows.
Besp
tac
Perhaps they don’t want to be thought “childish” , you know how a lot of them are .
I also believe that since not a lot of our countrymen join or have joined the Armed Forces these days , the broad mindedness of old has gone out of life . It’s all self . Self . Sad really .
Mike
tac, I have the same situationb here in the states. Actually, I am kinda glad I don’t have an audience. That way I get to do what I want, when I wanna.
Funniest one I had was a guy I had come out to the house to re-do the chimney. He spent 10 minutes discussing the chimney and an hour checking out the layout. Then there’s the UPS guy. He was delivering some train stuff and asked if I was a train guy, he spent 20 minutes out back checking it out. He said he had noticed the part by the driveway, but never realized how far back it went. Another one was the tree guy who spent a half hour with his jaw dragging on the ground …
As for the neighbors, well, they just put up with the crazy guy next door.
Funniest thang - a couple of years syne,also on a charity day at Barnwell, one onlooker - VERY interested, as were his two young boys - was watching the Garratt chuffing by with great intensity.
I gave him the controller, and let him drive for a while - not difficult with only a throttle and FMR to deal with.
'What makes it work, then, and what does all that complicated-looking linkage actually do?
I explone in some detail, as he was very inquisitive, and he finally got to grasp the boiling of water via the gas burners, the production of steam, the admission into the cylinders via the valves in the valve gear, and how the steam pressure against a piston turned into reciprocating motion via the drive rods. We then moved on to the Shay, and started on over with explications of a different method of driving, based on the requirements of a different set of operational parameters.
‘Amazing’ he said, ‘and the full-size steam loco works in the same way? Well, who would have thought that you could translate a huge locomotive into a model and have it still working like the real thing’.
I asked him what he did for a living, and to my great amaze, he told me that he was one of the county aeromed helicopter pilots, and had flown SAR missions in the Royal Navy for fourteen years before getting a shore-job.
It just shows how far in the past our little steam egines are for many folks.
tac
OVGRS.org
Considering the number of steam locomotives we have preserved in the UK and the number actually operational I am amazed that people have never seen one.
It is also amazing that the UK being so small has such a number of preserved locomotives anyway.
http://www.abrail.co.uk/Preserved%20Steama.htm
The second column from the left with the letter A shown are the active locos when the list was drawn up…there may be more…or less these days.
Ross , it says Error 404 not found . Is the address right ?
Mike
Its the address I took off Google.
http://www.abrail.co.uk/Preserved%20Steama.htm
I have just tested it here and it works…odd really as its the same address…
I think its the website itself. Try it twice it seems to work that way…or
Google Preserved Locomotives UK
How odd!!
I just tried it again , and got the same .
But when I went to the alternative above it came up OK .
Thanks
Mike
Ross Mansell said:
Considering the number of steam locomotives we have preserved in the UK and the number actually operational I am amazed that people have never seen one.
It is also amazing that the UK being so small has such a number of preserved locomotives anyway.
Please do not overlook the fact that the steam locomotive was invented here, and that steam ran on in UK until late 1967. There are approximately ten times more preserved locomotives actually running in steam in the UK than there are in ALL the USA.
Soon there will be another scratch-built 12" to the foot scale model - an LNER P2 [that’s a mikado, BTW]. You can see the progress on Youtube.
People over here are not afraid to put their money where their mouth is where steam trains are concerned. ‘Tornado’, the last built-from-scratch loco to run here, has at least one rivet/stay-bolt paid for by the tac family.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
tac, I am amazed that folks with an interest in some mechanical things, in your example helicopters, don’t have at least a passing interest in other mechanical things. But it happens a lot. I am also fascinated by how shallow some folks interests are. On one of those days when it was too scuzzy to fly, my flight instructor and I were waiting at the FBO for the crud to lift. He started flipping through a war-bird calendar, of the 14 allies war-birds from WWII in the calendar, I knew 13 of them. he didn’t know any. I thought pilots had some interest in airplanes.
As for preserving steam locomotives, I have a feeling that the British tend to be a bit more nostalgic about stuff like that, so they didn’t scrap them wholesale like we did over here in the states. I read where the Jupiter, one of the locomotives at Promontory point Utah, on the famous day when east and west were joined by rail, was actually scrapped. Who the heck would make such a decision? I know, some pencil pushing been counter.
The famous Woodhams Barry (South Wales) scrapyard where a very large number of the locos preserved in the UK came from.
Who ever thought that any in the state shown would & could EVER be brought back to life?
No trace of the scarpyard now exists…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/taffytank/sets/72157621170710769/
All photos Peter Brabham on Flckr…
@David - yup, there is a fascinating movie on Youtube of the building of a replica of the loco - using an old photograph to do the photogrammetry and derive measurements.
I comment it to you all.
@Ross - don’t overlook the scracth-built 'GWR Manor Class loco that somebody of other is building, as too, either. There are others, my pal Pete reminds me - just can’t recall them all at the moment.
I spend time when we are over in OR at the Oregon Rail heritage Centre [look it up] where my most favouritest American loco of all time, the SP&S Northern #700, resides, alongside the Daylight GS4. Both are the sole survivors of their kind. Even the Timpkin Roller bearing loco and the wonderful Turbomotive are long gone. Is there a Hiawatha Atlantic?
tac
OVGRS