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Category Archives: Weird and wonderful
Finding your vocation
Forty years ago or so, I studied engineering with a nutter good friend called Tony Knight. It’s taken the whole of that forty years for him to find his true vocation. The intervening years were spent doing things like time in the … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #23
Last Thursday was spent just outside Glasgow, in a site two-storey Portakabin on a water treatment works site. A long day, flying up from Gatwick, 6am to 11pm in the end. Fortunately, our flights missed the worse of the storm … Continue reading
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Wrong kind of sun?
We’ve all heard of the ‘wrong kind of snow’ getting stuck in train doors and causing cancellation of train services during the UK winter. But how about ‘the wrong kind of sun’ from the BBC? Rail passengers were left angry … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #2916
A variety of photographs culled from the Model Railroad Hobbyist forum. Some are reasonable enough, but some are real ‘believe it or not’ moments. We’ll start with a shared rail – to fit both tracks under a crane span. Not quite … Continue reading
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ESNG 2015 in review
We’ll this is an easy blog to get the new year under way!!! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s some excerpts: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This … Continue reading
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Happy New Year!
A Happy New Year to all our readers! What will this year bring? I hope some progress on my N-club modules. And I also hope to see some models on order released – the Rapido N gauge Osgood Bradley coaches … Continue reading
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What did you get for Christmas?
Children are a real blessing…. Especially when they send you a Christmas card….. Hope you didn’t overdo the turkey and mince pies…..
A Christmas dream and other oddities
Borrowed from the Model Railroad Hobbyist forum. And pure wishful thinking….. Anything interesting under your tree (apart from socks)? I was very taken by this video sent me by my daughter. Is it a new kind of sushi restaurant? Reminds … Continue reading
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Odd modelling idea #2748
Here are a few more, “Believe it or not” scenes to add to your layout. We’ve all seen strange animals on layouts, such as dinosaurs and alien landings. Definitely a case of Rule 1 – it’s my railway. But how about … Continue reading
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The bridge over the River Kwai
In 1997, I was working in Thailand, and took a weekend visiting the bridge over the River Kwai and the surrounding countryside. If I recall correctly, this is a rebuilt bridge, as the original that cost so many Allied soldiers’ … Continue reading
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