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Re: trainspotting, virtually
To tie this and the sewing machine thread together, Singer had its own station in Glasgow.
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Today singer station still exists open for public use. But on a slightly different alignment.
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The KKG&I Long Beach, CA
Schooner sailors love to get blown offshore!Comment
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that is cool
what scale?Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.Comment
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The track is G scale. The War Bonnet and all that follow her are standard guage. The blue Santa Fe engine is also standard, but her posse is narrow guage. Standard guage cars scale out to about 22:1. Narrow guage is somewhere around 32:1. We don't mind mixing and matching. If it rolls, it rolls on the KKG&I. We are not "Rivet Counters"!Schooner sailors love to get blown offshore!Comment
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Come on guys. Is this really all we've got. I was hopin' to see at least another page or 2.
I'll try to re-energize this thread with an engineer's eye view of the KKG&I.
Schooner sailors love to get blown offshore!Comment
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I just picked up Dad's Railways of the World books - 2 volume set - I will grab a couple of pics from it later on. It's quite old.Comment
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The bookshelves in my office:
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In the kitchen above the microwave and all of the dog treats for Max. N Scale
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Asking your wife if she would mind if you tore out and removed the top half of a big kitchen cabinet, and then cut a couple of holes in the wall so that the trains could go through is a good test to find out if you married properly. Lucky for me, the big cabinet was a piece of junk.Comment
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I spend lots of time observing LA Harbor from the seat of a bike. Train encounters are common. I usually don't even bother getting my camera. This modern version of a chain gang got my attention though.
IMG_0436.jpgSchooner sailors love to get blown offshore!Comment
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Jeff CDon’t expect much, and you won’t be disappointed…Comment
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This and their other trains run past the bottom of my garden, the track is around 6' from the fence. As well as carrying passengers, they offer driver days etc
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And another local story
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Something halfway between Todd's G-scale and full scale:
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narrow gauge Bn2t 11458 "Borsig" on park railway "Maltanka", connecting main mass transit node on one end of the lake with city zoo on the other.WszystekPoTrochu's signature available only for premium forum users.Comment
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For a festival of steam engine eccentricity, visit North Wales.IMAGINES VEL NON FUERINTComment
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