Now That is one clean steam engine ...

[dogtag]

I can remember one of many tube trips in from Hendon to visit The Imperial War Museum with my Grandfather. We sat on a bench on the pavement not far from the museum to eat sandwiches when a coal powered train went over a nearby bridge. My Grandfather said it won't be long before they are gone ... never forget it.

Ya know DT.... there are friends of yours on this forum that would say that you and I ... are not "real Americans "

I had a Cousin lived near Hendon Central. Used to take a 113 Bus to go visit.
And, I'm probably more "American" than many Americans.

[Sandpebble]

I had a Cousin lived near Hendon Central. Used to take a 113 Bus to go visit.
And, I'm probably more "American" than many Americans.

Actually I was Colindale... between Edgeware and Hendon ....

.... as far as being more American than many Americans .... seems most imigrants are now a days

[clintonhater]

Ya know DT.... there are friends of yours on this forum that would say that you and I ... are not "real Americans "

Those that do are idiots--the ancestors of "real Americans" came from somewhere, anywhere, in Europe. Despite different (though closely related) languages, they share a common, Christian, culture, inherited ultimately from Greece & Rome.

[dogtag]

Talking of Trains (well, I was anyway) I sold all my models
eons ago but I wish I'd kept my Japanese brass "Big Boy"
4.8.8.4. What a monster engine that was. It could pull over
two hundred loaded boxcars.

[Roadkingtrax]

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[togor]

I wired up my first & only HO set on a 4x8 sheet of plywood when I was 12-13 years old, using a 1950's Revell transformer. Had a little town with a lit main street and stuff. I think that's where I first got the circuits bug. Mechanically those rail joints were a disaster and had that tiny town had a rail inspector they would have shut down the line! But when it worked, turn off the lights in the basement and listen to the clackity-clack, and there was magic. Maybe I'll get into it again some time. The current problem is that the paying work keeps me indoors so much that when I'm not working I need to be outside (unless cleaning after shooting or reloading).

[dogtag]

Yes of course. The layout I built for my son (right)
was HO. stocked with Hornby models plus Japanese
brass (well, just one, the Big Boy. It was expensive.
My wife wasn't too happy about that one.

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I wired up my first & only HO set on a 4x8 sheet of plywood when I was 12-13 years old, using a 1950's Revell transformer. Had a little town with a lit main street and stuff. I think that's where I first got the circuits bug. Mechanically those rail joints were a disaster and had that tiny town had a rail inspector they would have shut down the line! But when it worked, turn off the lights in the basement and listen to the clackity-clack, and there was magic. Maybe I'll get into it again some time. The current problem is that the paying work keeps me indoors so much that when I'm not working I need to be outside (unless cleaning after shooting or reloading).

The Marklins ran on AC so you didn't need to use block sections. You could
run multiple trains every which way.

[JB White]

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No tight radius there. Did they ever mass produce models of the articulated engines? Or....was even that 4-8-8-4 scratch built?

*side track* Back to the ER on the Royal loco, E is for Elizabeth. There is no Latin version of her name such as "Elizabethious". ER is simply Elizabeth Regina.