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Re: Welcome to the CHLR

Post by LNR » Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:24 am

Dam!! now I'm hungry again, and I've just finished tea.
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PS like to know how you eat those with an un-coupler ;)

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Post by tom_tom_go » Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:22 am

Brilliant. Those pictures have made me want to eat my lunch early :thumbup:

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Post by Dwayne » Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:07 pm

Not sure how I missed this thread...

Awesome layout you've got going. :thumbright:

Instead of the open cars hauling the freshly grilled food maybe build some oven cars to keep things warm during transport. :D

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Post by markoteal » Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:23 pm

Dwayne wrote: Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:07 pm Not sure how I missed this thread...

Awesome layout you've got going. :thumbright:

Instead of the open cars hauling the freshly grilled food maybe build some oven cars to keep things warm during transport. :D
Thanks Dwayne - now there's an idea! :study:
Where did I put that uncoupler?

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Post by tom_tom_go » Wed Jun 07, 2017 1:26 pm

You could use tea lights to keep the plates warm on a hot plate like they do in some restaurants...

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Post by markoteal » Wed Jun 07, 2017 1:43 pm

I'm liking it - the sizzler special!
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Post by Peter Butler » Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:11 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Wed Jun 07, 2017 1:26 pm You could use tea lights to keep the plates warm on a hot plate like they do in some restaurants...
I usually recommend plasticard for construction of rolling stock, but on this occasion I have my doubts.
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Post by markoteal » Wed Jun 07, 2017 5:09 pm

Agree..... may need to start with a donor Hornby Tinplate wagon - with suitable insulation - also the height could be a challenge thinking how high a tea light flame reaches from the base of a candle - perhaps just need a mini tea light or some form of element - or perhaps we may have found a use for Mamod solid fuel! :)
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Post by Soar Valley Light » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:40 pm

The inventiveness and imagination of the people on this forum never ceases to amaze me!

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Vendage season is nearly upon us

Post by markoteal » Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:11 am

The grapes are colouring up nicely - the staff at CHLR ran a test run this weekend - where a bunch is taken from the vines to Junction where the man from the Winery comes and tests sugar levels.
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The verdict? Wait a couple of weeks.

So the vendage is coming!
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Post by tom_tom_go » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:16 am

Samples please!

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Post by markoteal » Mon Aug 21, 2017 6:28 pm

Sadly by the time the grapes sweeten enough, the mice and birds have usually got the majority - you never know though!
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Post by philipy » Mon Aug 21, 2017 6:51 pm

At least you get grapes! I've got a bumper crop this year, 3 whole 'bunches' with at least half a dozen 'grapes on each, and some have even grown as big as peas. :roll:
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Post by FWLR » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:59 am

I have 4 fruit trees and for the past 3 years i have had nothing of all of them, they did flower so you would expect them to fruit, i do have some very small apples on a tree, but the other’s pear/cherry and plum nothing.

Love your line Mark, it’s great and Anne loves the sausage train.... :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Post by markoteal » Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:10 pm

Just got back from North Wales- the birds and mice have got the grapes again this year! LOL!
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Post by markoteal » Fri Nov 03, 2017 11:32 am

Its getting cold so the Shed to Bird Table (Train Code SD2BT) workings have started in earnest

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The birds are eating that much, I could run a train each day!
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Post by tom_tom_go » Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:56 pm

Great excuse to run a train each day and it has a meaniful purpose.

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Post by FWLR » Sat Nov 04, 2017 8:36 am

Thats what i intend to do when it stops raining lol :lol: :lol:

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Post by markoteal » Sun Nov 05, 2017 6:58 pm

Did you get out - I ran 3 more trains today to keep the birds fed!
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Post by Soar Valley Light » Sun Nov 05, 2017 7:44 pm

Absolutely brilliant! I love to see a railway that really does something - and such a worthwhile cause too.

I'm afraid if I were to try and keep up with the greedy ganets that feed in our garden (front and back) I'd need something akin to the six track railway that makes up the last 8 miles of the Midland route into London! :shock:
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