 |
| Posted: Wed Nov 26th, 2008 07:44 pm |
|
31st Post |
ytter_man
Guest
| Joined: | |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Modern day China:
Didnt one of our German members modeling Romanian logging have something similar? 
|
|
|
| Posted: Wed Nov 26th, 2008 10:42 pm |
|
32nd Post |
Dave D
Registered
|
Woodie that MK&T #2 inspection car is very cool!!
Thanks for sharing that.
____________________
My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master.
|
|
|
ytter_man
Guest
| Joined: | |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Here's one from Syria, any idea what it is? The full article can be found HERE.
|
|
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 05:49 pm |
|
34th Post |
Mudge85
Registered
| Joined: | Sat Jul 14th, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | 68 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Judging from the windows and the center door it looks as if it got hit front and rear by something square.
Bill Caldwell
Never look back...something might be gaining on you...my favorite quote from Satchell Paige
|
|
|
| Posted: Sun Oct 18th, 2009 01:22 am |
|
35th Post |
W C Greene
Moderator
|
Jake-I know what that is...it's some real funkiness! Woodie
____________________
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, its' how you rig the game.
|
|
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2009 01:09 am |
|
36th Post |
Huw Griffiths
Registered
|
Whilst checking out some industrial archaeology websites, I came across this link:
http://www.mylearning.org/image-zoom.asp?jpageid=769&picid=2
It's a photograph of a steam tram, built in Leeds by Kitson. They supplied similar trams to a number of cities in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.
I don't know whether you'd call them critters - they certainly weren't mainline - but they've always fascinated me anyway!
Regards,
Huw.
|
|
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2009 01:38 am |
|
37th Post |
Herb Kephart
Moderator
|
Good golly Miss Molly!
That thing deserves inclusion in any critter discussion just on it's funkiness!
That's funky, with a capital F!
Wonder if they issued gas masks to the passengers on the upper deck?
Herbie
____________________
Fix it again, Mr Gates--it still works!"
|
|
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2009 01:52 am |
|
38th Post |
Huw Griffiths
Registered
|
ebtm3 wrote: Wonder if they issued gas masks to the passengers on the upper deck?
No, but the front ends of the upper decks had screens, to stop soot landing on passengers.
Regards,
Huw.
|
|
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2009 02:26 pm |
|
39th Post |
Huw Griffiths
Registered
|
The requirement for screens at the front of steam tram trailers was just one of a whole collection of regulations that British steam tram operators had to obey.
Quite a few of them seem to have been devised specifically to ensure they could never be viable.
Some were so ridiculous that they even passed into folklore - 2mph speed limit in towns - having to have some guy walking in front, carrying a red flag - a maximum of 2 trailers (which was why double deck, bogie cars became popular) - plus onerous requirements about steam and smoke emissions (which was why lots of them had roof condensers and ran on coke).
All in all, the only people who really stood to gain from this nonsense were the owners of horse tramways.
Rules on mainland Europe seem to have been a bit more sensible, with the result that steam trams got bigger and lasted longer. Here's a link to footage of a restored steam tram in Bern, Switzerland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iax79ezuQPM
I'm not sure about the fake sepia effect and Scott Joplin soundtrack - but they're novel.
As for models, steam trams have been neglected by RTR manufacturers, especially in Britain. (I think you can safely ignore the toys with no interiors - but with silly faces, aimed at Th*m*s fans.)
For O-16.5, there are some very nice card kits of Kitsons, produced by Alphagraphix. Other than that, British steam tram modellers are abandoned - I'm sure there are commercial reasons, but it's very frustrating.
I guess I might end up scratchbuilding!
Regards,
Huw.
Last edited on Thu Nov 12th, 2009 06:23 pm by Huw Griffiths
|
|
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2009 03:01 pm |
|
40th Post |
W C Greene
Moderator
|
Huw-see if you can find a Grandt Line STEAM DUMMY kit. This fine O scale superstructure is made to "cover" their On3.On30 Porter locos to make them more acceptable to "city operation". The dummy looks pretty much like the British tram lokies and may just be what you want. Also, the old San Francisco cable car in O scale is available again from Lindberg. You can find these by Hawk & Testors on the old kit tables. These kits can be "bashed" into a fine representation of a tram also.
In my scale, 1:35/1:32, Airfix made a beautiful old double decker bus used in WW1 London which can be used for this tram, but alas, there is no "dummy" body made in that scale.
Woodie
____________________
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, its' how you rig the game.
|
|
|
Current time is 12:31 pm | Page:   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...   |
|
|
|
