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Buddleia: The plant that dominates Britain’s railways
Gardening tips from the BBC website (edited)…… It’s hard to walk by a railway line in Britain and not see Buddleia. Along fences by the tracks and almost any patch of waste ground, you will notice the long, slender clumps … Continue reading
The world’s most luxurious train?
Could this be a future release for Kato? Beats slam-door electrics, anyway…. (From the Daily Telegraph website). The newspapers continue to supply an interesting stream of prototype railway curios. And I can’t resist reposting them! There will be two competing … Continue reading
Posted in Prototype, The trade, Weird and wonderful
Tagged Japanese railways, N gauge, prototype, railway
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Victorian Strangeness: The man who hoped to die in a railway crash
You thought model railway enthusiasts were strange. How about this from the BBC News web site? Money. Property. Land. Heirlooms. Whatever the mourners were hoping to inherit when they first gathered for the reading of the will, they were to … Continue reading
(Rail)road runner
Next real post tomorrow with the ESNG meeting tonight. However, here’s a bonus post. Combining bird-watching and train-spotting would be ideal. I think the poor critter looks a bit confused. It’s a road, Jim, but not as we know it…. (Picture … Continue reading
Is it a bird, is it a train?
Here’s an irresistable snippet from the BBC (bold text mine). In 1970, the British Railways Board filed a patent for a spacecraft powered by “controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction”. The original patent application said the reaction would be “ignited by one … Continue reading
Is our hobby art?
A blog post I was reading recently asked the following question: Is our hobby a creative art form? And added a quote from John Updike: “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better” I was mulling … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Layout design, Weird and wonderful
Tagged hints and tips, model railroad, model railway, N gauge
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Physics Room 101
Originally posted on The Erratic and Wandering Journey:
Well, it has been a while since I posted, but I have had little to say – I hope I have done it eloquently. Anyway, I have been assembling L-girders, cutting sub…
Posted in Out and about, Weird and wonderful
Tagged hints and tips, layout design, model railroad, model railway
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Quelle dommage!!
Funny how posts always seem to come, like the proverbial buses, close together after a long delay. So here’s another prototype item, this time from the BBC web site. The French train operator SNCF has discovered that 2,000 new trains … Continue reading
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Tagged hints and tips, prototype, SCNF
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Apocalyptic Perspectives and Dystopian Dioramas (recommended)
The Model Railroad Design blog recently had an inspirational post on “Apocalyptic Perspectives and Dystopian Dioramas” offering some inspirational, if slightly depressing ideas for model railroad design. I recommend the full article, but here are a couple of photographs from the … Continue reading
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Tagged hints and tips, layout design, model railroad
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Would you dare model this?
This is the ultimate piece of trackwork. It comes from Sardinia, and presumably is used to turn locomotives (or maybe just to confuse people). It’s tempting to build, despite the curved crossings, but you would need to have a picture … Continue reading
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Tagged layout design, prototype, railway
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