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Odd modelling ideas #0219
A few more ideas. Unusual wagon loads are popular enough, but how about an old, or damaged, wagon or locomotive going to the scrapyard? These are all American pictures. I looked hard for some UK equivalents, but couldn’t find any. … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #0218
Here’s a little Swiss spiral for the Cha(I)rman. It would make quite some model…. I liked this film from YouTube, describing the winter of 1963. I can’t remember seeing trains in Petts Wood that winter, but here are a couple … Continue reading
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More links and oddities
First, a cure for insomnia….. “Slow train coming: SBS to air 17-hour Ghan trip on Sunday” Following the success/controversy of airing a three-hour extract of a train trip through the Australian outback, SBS has decided to air a 17-hour version … Continue reading
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A few post Christmas links
A little light reading after that heavy Christmas luncheon. (I think mine is just wearing off….) The BBC recently had two interesting articles on railway stations ‘worth lingering at’ – stations often with few trains, but lots of other interest. … Continue reading
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Filling boxcars with stuffing
Last day today….. Then packing up, and a flight home for me, and a long drive back to the UK for Allan and Derek. But here’s a link to bemuse y’all…. No, Horace, I know Christmas is coming, … Continue reading
A Modeling Hierarchy
Yet another thought provoking post by Mike Cougill on the OST blog. Here he focusses on how to compose the scenes on our model railways, and how there might be a “hierarchy” of detail in our modelling. He introduces the … Continue reading
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Odd or even?
This is a question I’ve heard discussed before – does a train look better with an odd or even number of coaches/wagons? (Note: American readers modelling mile long double-stacks, please move on now – you will have lost count long … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #23
Two links today…… A train passenger’s view of India Shanu Babar loves train journeys so much that he began documenting his. Soon, others joined him…. On 21 July 2015, Mr Babar launched @windowseatproject to record his journeys on Instagram. The … Continue reading
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Learn To Love The Process
Yet another thought provoking post by Mike Cougill on the OST blog… I have two thoughts in mind and I don’t know if I can connect them in a coherent narrative. The first is simple, maybe even obvious: you can … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #2030
For the climate conscious (and it would make a cool model)….. Rail Energy Storage Harnesses the Power of Gravity All the Livelong Day A California startup is repurposing trains and rail cars to help renewable energy utilities compete with fossil … Continue reading
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