Enlargement - Part the Second.
Enlargement - Part the Second.
If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger hammer!
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Is it a bubble car?
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An inflatable garden railway layout..
"En schöne Gruess" from an Alpine railway in Holland.
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Looks suspiciously like a Messerschmitt three wheeler to me.
Rik
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All joking apart I do actually own a bubble-car (well the remains of one).
As you can see it is a large box of polystyrene, just what I always wanted.
However it raises the question of what do they pack polystyrene with?
If you buy a telly it comes in a protective polystyrene mounting, so how do they protect the stuff when they send it to people?
As you can see it is a large box of polystyrene, just what I always wanted.
However it raises the question of what do they pack polystyrene with?
If you buy a telly it comes in a protective polystyrene mounting, so how do they protect the stuff when they send it to people?
If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger hammer!
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It would appear that to protect polystyrene chips in transit they pack them with steam engines.
This was not expected until Friday, however Postman Pat's big brother turned up with this at lunchtime, thankfully I was in and the current wife wasn't.
This was not expected until Friday, however Postman Pat's big brother turned up with this at lunchtime, thankfully I was in and the current wife wasn't.
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Oooh. Now that looks nice. Are you trying to tempt me to the steamy side?
Rik
Rik
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Current wife?? Do you tend to change them often? I try and arrange my mail order purchases to be delivered when my wife isn't home! Joking aside that's a tidy looking locomotive.
Ian
Ian
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The No.1 Electric/RC Grand High Panjandrum going over to the dark side? Good grief.Oooh. Now that looks nice. Are you trying to tempt me to the steamy side?
The beast in question is a 5" Inch gauge Railmotor. Designed by a chap called Don Young in the 1960's. it is based on the power unit of the Railmotors that saw service in the South Wales valleys before the war. The prototype would have had a coach semi-permanently coupled to it.
Like all locos of the PMR it is second hand and needs a good spiv up. It has been 'decorated' by the RNIB pro-am painting display team. However it does run and it has a boiler ticket.
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Lovely loco - sure you'll be able to sort the paintwork out - in the photo it doesn't look that bad
Where did I put that uncoupler?
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Think yard brush and blindfold.
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That does look like a useful bit of kit Jim, I'm sure you will have loads of fun with it.
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That's a hefty locomotive..
"En schöne Gruess" from an Alpine railway in Holland.
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Just about a one man lift.
If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger hammer!
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Ooooh - I am well jel!
Phil
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Sporadic Garden Railer who's inconsistencies know no bounds
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You just have to add a big whistle on the place of the blow-off valves and you have a giant mammod..
"En schöne Gruess" from an Alpine railway in Holland.
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The new beastie had its first run today. Not as good as I hoped, the blower is blocked and we struggled to raise steam. This was not helped by some rather iffy coal. It was more than happy to pull me around with 15psi, albeit slowly. This suggest that all is okay and once the blower is sorted and some decent coal is sourced, all will be good.
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I was going to put a post in 'Wanted', saying I want that engine, but I thought better of it - don't want to encourage any ne'er do wells
Phil
Sporadic Garden Railer who's inconsistencies know no bounds
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Sporadic Garden Railer who's inconsistencies know no bounds
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Cleaning and refitting a blower on that loco must be miles easier than on a 16mm coal fired one (mine is fun to do although it has only blocked once and that was my fault).
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