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Many thanks for the links...:)
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Thanks very much, I’ll definitely check those books out.
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Hi folks,
Can anyone point me in the right direction please, I’m looking for decent photos and information on rural (off the beat and track) rail served lumber yards and saw mills, anything from the 1950s through to the modern era. I’m looking for images of the type of cars used, trucks that...
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That’s nothing compared to the horrific crash suffered by Casey Jones...absolute carnage.;)
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Apart from the odd bit of flying debris and the constant risk of being blinded, killed or maimed, it does look like fun.
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Absolutely brilliant, I really enjoyed watching that. I could happily spend some time there.
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That’s true enough, even the loading gauges were curved.
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I really don’t know the answer to your curved tops question, I’d never really given it any thought. I guess that I’ve grown up around the British railway and the curved top is just normal here, it would make sense to have curved tops given that our tunnels are pretty narrow, come to think of it...
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I think Nohab was based in Sweden, they built locomotives for everyone and anyone, Denmark, Russia and Brazil all had locomotives built by Nohab, they were an impressive company back in the day.
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I don’t know if it’s common knowledge in the U.S but a great deal of freight on British railroads is being hauled by locomotives built in the USA, General Motors (EMD) had originally supplied the British rail network with four SD40-2 designs, they were reconfigured to suit the Brit loading gauge...
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Hello,
I’m not sure how other countries disposed of their steam engines but here in the UK our steam engines were sent to Barry Island in Wales where they were cut up and the scrap was recycled, thankfully, quite a few people had the foresight to realise that many of those scrapped engines could...
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Hi everyone, I’m happy to have found this forum.
I enjoy building railroad models and I’ve just completed my first small switching layout in (N Gauge) I live in England and my switching layout was my first attempt at building something based on railroad operations in the USA. I had researched...
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