Condolences. However, look on the bright side - soon you’ll be coming back to a place where the sun actually does shine now and then. Unless your name begins with ‘The’ and ends with ‘Queen’ all efforts at being cheerful up there are doomed to failure, unless, of course, you also play golfbat or take pleasure in the risk of perishing alone on a barren wind-swept hillside.
‘The finest thing a Scotchman may see is the road to London’ - Samuel Johnson
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
One word of warning Stuart: just keep away from people with ‘fishy’ sounding surnames. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Dear all
As promised video of a quick first run in the garden this wet and windy morning.
Loco coped with gradients and tight turns with no problems.
Stu
Good vid, thanks for posting it. V. fine stooms of pleam as well.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Yes it was fairly cold and windy out in the garden this morning. Things I do for you lot.
Another video. This time of wednesdays meeting at Iden Coach House.
This was the first proper public run for 35010 Blue Star. 20 on the hook no problems at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYiIhq6MXpE
Stuart
Stuart, great video and some fine running there, albeit it a trifle fast for my taste. On a serious note, you really must persuade Trevor to upgrade his camera resolution. It’s great to have a fine product like the RBMN undoubtedly is, but a real bummer having to watch it on a paleolithic framing rate that Charlie Chaplin would scoff at.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Thanks tac
Actually it’s filmed in 1080p full hd on a gopro hero 3 black so the resolution is pretty high. Likelyhood is that YouTube is reducing it for your internet connection to prevent it buffering. Resolution is looking good this end.
Stu
Ah, right. I keep forgetting that the internet has to pass down old wet rope here in rural East Anglia.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
It was pretty slow here for ages but now we have fibre optic yay!
Stu
Well, our village does, too, but it has to work down to us in the prioritised way they do things around here. I dare say that we will be using FO before too long, and then I can justify have TWO huge TVs rather than one we watch programmes on and the other that me and ig and the boys watch our trains on…
Anyhow, we’ve finally decided that the blue ‘Tornado’ is way prettier than the RBMN. Are you getting one of those as well?
tac etc.
No not for me tac. I’m sure it will be a great model but it’s the wrong region for me we are strictly southern and Canadian Pacific here. It’s a personal preference but I’m not keen on gas firing on big locos either much prefer either meths or coal. Whatever your preference though the increase inker reasonably priced models of a high standard has to be good for the hobby.
Stuart
Ah, ‘reasonably priced’ and Gauge 1 ‘coal-firing’ do not necessarily go together.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Very true but good fun!
More footage of the RBMNs running at a great track in southeast England in Friday. Easily managing 20 carriages and some very controlled slow running
Stuart
A lovely Pullman train there, Stuart and Trevor, but please ease up on the ‘stirring’ music. I’d much rather hear the noise made by the locomotive[s] than be moved to go and invade some fuzzy-wuzzy country in defence of the empire.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
WTH? Where DOES this pesky strike-through thing come from?
tac
tac,
I don’t know what you are whining talking about! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Uhh… the strike through comes from hitting the strike through button? in Advanced editing it’s to the right of the underline and to the left of the text color.
Greg
