[modeleng] Re: 12" scale loco
- From: "kenny.macdougall" <kenny.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:45:46 -0000
Hi Cliff
It just goes to show it does not matter what our geographic position is we
can all be friends in our steam hobby
regards
kenny
> Hi Kenny,
>
> I think that we have something in common in that you have a 5" gauge
> garden
> line located almost as far North as you can get and I have one located as
> far South West as you can go with out swimming.
>
> Regards
>
> Clif
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "kenny.macdougall" <kenny.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:33 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: 12" scale loco
>
>
>> Hi Clif all the best with the raiway
>> kenny
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi Dave and All,
>>>
>>> Met one of your guys Mike Osbourne to other day, having a look round our
>>> embryo railway down here in the far West of Cornwall at Helston.
>>>
>>> Had a long natter.
>>> As we have a Park Royal, he mentioned a guy called Trevor Daw who he
>>> says
>>> is
>>> a Wiz with Diesel Units.
>>>
>>> So far we have been going for 2.5 years from nothing and a couple of
>>> months
>>> ago brought in our first trains.
>>> Getting the units in was great fun as we are located in the absolute
>>> middle
>>> of the countryside with only Farm tracks and country lanes for access.
>>>
>>> We even have a Web site if you are interested at
>>> www.helstonrailway.co.uk
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Clif
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Dave Beaman" <davebeaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:12 AM
>>> Subject: [modeleng] Re: 12" scale loco
>>>
>>>
>>>> Got to agree with you Barrie, why did the rest of the world put all the
>>>> pipework on show???? The beauty of a British loco was it was pleasing
>>>> to
>>>> the
>>>> eye and mostly practical. Ok, Bullied chain driven valve gear was not
>>>> the
>>>> best of ideas, Super D and LMS compunds braking systems were lousy but
>>>> at
>>>> least they looked good. Even the narrow gauge locos hid the pipework
>>>> and
>>>> doesn't it show, still being photographed after over 100yrs. Now don't
>>>> get
>>>> me wrong, I love all steam, have fired locos in Germany, Austria,
>>>> Zimbabwe(Ok they were built in Manchester at Gorton works), Isle of
>>>> White(Well it's over the water), even lowered myself to fire Great
>>>> Western
>>>> locos and they look nice really but look at the sleek lines of a
>>>> Duchess,
>>>> not the upturned bathtub one, a rebuilt Coronation is one of the finest
>>>> looking locos around. Even a clean black five looks good.... Actually,
>>>> clean
>>>> or dirty it looks great and will do anything for you except make the
>>>> tea!...
>>>> Ok, enough about how good our British locos look, remember, steam is
>>>> steam
>>>> and there isn't a lot of it left to see so enjoy what you find in any
>>>> country.
>>>>
>>>> Dave.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Barrie Purslow" <bpduo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:43 PM
>>>> Subject: [modeleng] Re: 12" scale loco
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jesse,
>>>>
>>>> At the risk of inflaming nationalistic passions even further - American
>>>> locos invariably look pretty ugly to my British eyes!!
>>>>
>>>> Barrie
>>>>
>>>>> That is one yougly looking lokie to my way of thinking. Since it was
>>>>> made
>>>>> for the Frenchies, does it complete with a set of white flags????
>>>>>
>>>>> REDNECK
>>>>>
>>>>> I dont know if any of you have seen it, but there is a full size loco
>>>>> on
>>>>> Ebay.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-6-0-FOUR-CYLINDER-COMPOUND-LIVE-STEAM-OCOMOTIVE_W0QQitemZ200167574456QQihZ010QQcategoryZ9883QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemIt
>>>>> is an awful lot of metal for the money!! http://www.alanstepney.info>
>>>>> Alan
>>>>> Stepney's Model Engineering, steam, andworkshop pages.
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