What's the Most Desirable Man-Made Object?
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
PurpleMoonlight said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymT91LupA6M
jet_noise said:
I couldn't quite afford this:
This has to do, still haven't unpacked it yet!
A fascinating tale of design & build cockups being rectified after the loco was scrapped and preserved,
regards,
Jet
Ahah! The Duke.This has to do, still haven't unpacked it yet!
A fascinating tale of design & build cockups being rectified after the loco was scrapped and preserved,
regards,
Jet
Yes indeed. Small schoolboy Rail Enthusiast me, about 1954, spent his half-a-crown pocket money (12.5 pence ..
)on a cheap day football return rail ticket from Gloucester to Tamworth. Those memorable trips included several highlights. Such as being "assisted" up the Lickey Incline by no less a celebrity than the Big Bertha Lickey Banker Locomotive herself, 58100. Purposely built for the sole purpose of shoving trains up that steep slope. Arriving at Tamworth in ample time to observe the northbound Mid-Day Scot at speed, usually hauled by my all time favourite Locomotives, the Princess Coronations, watched as the image of the loco at speed appeared and became clearer in the far distance which did not look quite "right". There was a good reason for this. On duty that day was no less a one off than 71000... Duke of Gloucester itself. Despite the alleged valve gear cock-ups affecting performance later revealed, it was shifting and then some.
Move on again for another cheap football Saturday half-a-crown return to Tamworth, including the magnificent Big Bertha assist again up the Lickey, only to experience the disappointment then surprise that the M-D-Scot was not steam hauled. This time it was the "new" Diesels 10000 and 10001 double heading the northbound Scot... the shape of things to come...
My biggest regret not having sufficient funds to own a camera back then. Fabulous sights and sounds lost forever. Unlike today, Photography and image capture was not the low cost easy thing everybody can own and afford now. It was bluddy expensive for most folks in still war-impoverished working class UK of the day. Rail travel was superb value though .... always an upside if you know where to look ...
Mind you, little later did get to see my favourite Princess Coronations at work. Many times. Great days gone forever.
Youngsters today don't know theyze born...
MGJohn said:
Ahah! The Duke.
Yes indeed. Small schoolboy Rail Enthusiast me, about 1954, spent his half-a-crown pocket money (12.5 pence .. )on a cheap day football return rail ticket from Gloucester to Tamworth. Those memorable trips included several highlights. Such as being "assisted" up the Lickey Incline by no less a celebrity than the Big Bertha Lickey Banker Locomotive herself, 58100. Purposely built for the sole purpose of shoving trains up that steep slope.
Arriving at Tamworth in ample time to observe the northbound Mid-Day Scot at speed, usually hauled by my all time favourite Locomotives, the Princess Coronations, watched as the image of the loco at speed appeared and became clearer in the far distance which did not look quite "right". There was a good reason for this. On duty that day was no less a one off than 71000... Duke of Gloucester itself. Despite the alleged valve gear cock-ups affecting performance later revealed, it was shifting and then some.
Move on again for another cheap football Saturday half-a-crown return to Tamworth, including the magnificent Big Bertha assist again up the Lickey, only to experience the disappointment then surprise that the M-D-Scot was not steam hauled. This time it was the "new" Diesels 10000 and 10001 double heading the northbound Scot... the shape of things to come...
My biggest regret not having sufficient funds to own a camera back then. Fabulous sights and sounds lost forever. Unlike today, Photography and image capture was not the low cost easy thing everybody can own and afford now. It was bluddy expensive for most folks in still war-impoverished working class UK of the day. Rail travel was superb value though .... always an upside if you know where to look ...
Mind you, little later did get to see my favourite Princess Coronations at work. Many times. Great days gone forever.
Youngsters today don't know theyze born...
Glad to stimulate the memories Yes indeed. Small schoolboy Rail Enthusiast me, about 1954, spent his half-a-crown pocket money (12.5 pence ..
)on a cheap day football return rail ticket from Gloucester to Tamworth. Those memorable trips included several highlights. Such as being "assisted" up the Lickey Incline by no less a celebrity than the Big Bertha Lickey Banker Locomotive herself, 58100. Purposely built for the sole purpose of shoving trains up that steep slope. Arriving at Tamworth in ample time to observe the northbound Mid-Day Scot at speed, usually hauled by my all time favourite Locomotives, the Princess Coronations, watched as the image of the loco at speed appeared and became clearer in the far distance which did not look quite "right". There was a good reason for this. On duty that day was no less a one off than 71000... Duke of Gloucester itself. Despite the alleged valve gear cock-ups affecting performance later revealed, it was shifting and then some.
Move on again for another cheap football Saturday half-a-crown return to Tamworth, including the magnificent Big Bertha assist again up the Lickey, only to experience the disappointment then surprise that the M-D-Scot was not steam hauled. This time it was the "new" Diesels 10000 and 10001 double heading the northbound Scot... the shape of things to come...
My biggest regret not having sufficient funds to own a camera back then. Fabulous sights and sounds lost forever. Unlike today, Photography and image capture was not the low cost easy thing everybody can own and afford now. It was bluddy expensive for most folks in still war-impoverished working class UK of the day. Rail travel was superb value though .... always an upside if you know where to look ...
Mind you, little later did get to see my favourite Princess Coronations at work. Many times. Great days gone forever.
Youngsters today don't know theyze born...
I can't recall much steam, I'm probably 5-10 years junior to you and lived in the SE as a child so it was wall to wall 3rd rail electrics but...
...I've also got models of 10000 (scratch built by my father & grandfather) and my father's P+J as a child - a now well battered Trix Twin streamlined Coronation Scot box set!
regards,
Jet
jet_noise said:
Glad to stimulate the memories
I can't recall much steam, I'm probably 5-10 years junior to you and lived in the SE as a child so it was wall to wall 3rd rail electrics but...
...I've also got models of 10000 (scratch built by my father & grandfather) and my father's P+J as a child - a now well battered Trix Twin streamlined Coronation Scot box set!
regards,
Jet
I can't recall much steam, I'm probably 5-10 years junior to you and lived in the SE as a child so it was wall to wall 3rd rail electrics but...
...I've also got models of 10000 (scratch built by my father & grandfather) and my father's P+J as a child - a now well battered Trix Twin streamlined Coronation Scot box set!
regards,
Jet
...and why not. Cue question from my son.Son No.1 said:
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Did you really travel to work on a steam train Dad? You must be really old.
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Really old ... Did you really travel to work on a steam train Dad? You must be really old.
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... One of the less positive aspects of becoming a Dad in middle age.. Mostly positive though .. Yes I did for around six years soon after leaving school in 1958 aged sixteen. Several years on the Chingford ~ Liverpool Street line steam hauled a lot of the time into the early 1960s until electrification. Previously the occasional commute Gloucester~Hereford Steam hauled through the Forest of Dean. Memorable stuff. A work colleague bought a property in "The Forest" in the 1970s. Me exploring their massive overgrown garden during a house warming, noticed "ballast" at the very bottom of it. I then realised I had travelled through their garden ... on a steam train before Beeching had the line closed and pulled up. Had a giggle about that ..
I have flown jets of carriers, raced an F1 Brabham Repco, & spent some years sailing around the Pacific. I have had a fair bit of experience with toys, & love them all dearly.
However we were flooded in for 5 days recently. We were caught quite by surprise and unprepared, it wasn't even the wet season.
The mains power went in the first couple of hours, & we had only enough fuel for a couple of hours small camping generator a day. The food in the freezer & the fridge went off during day 2, & we only had enough gas to run the barbeque once an hour or two a day as it might have to last a fair while.
At that stage I realised that our greatest achievement is electrical generation, & the grid distribution system. Toys are great, provided you have power & food. Without them, toys are not much use or fun.
I won't be caught again. I now have a 10 KVA gen set, & 250 litres diesel tank.
However we were flooded in for 5 days recently. We were caught quite by surprise and unprepared, it wasn't even the wet season.
The mains power went in the first couple of hours, & we had only enough fuel for a couple of hours small camping generator a day. The food in the freezer & the fridge went off during day 2, & we only had enough gas to run the barbeque once an hour or two a day as it might have to last a fair while.
At that stage I realised that our greatest achievement is electrical generation, & the grid distribution system. Toys are great, provided you have power & food. Without them, toys are not much use or fun.
I won't be caught again. I now have a 10 KVA gen set, & 250 litres diesel tank.
rohrl said:
Bisonhead said:
Has anyone mentioned personal peace and enlightenment yet? Although not an object, surely what we should all be trying to achieve? Otherwise, what are mere inanimate objects there to do?
If plump for the bullion myself, or a fair lump of platinum...maybe weapons grade uranium.
Bisonhead said:
Has anyone mentioned personal peace and enlightenment yet? Although not an object, surely what we should all be trying to achieve? Otherwise, what are mere inanimate objects there to do?
Well I did mention peace and happiness on pages 1 and 2. And if I can't have that then I'm having Concorde. Preferably all of them. To those of you with steam loco tendencies, if you had a spare £5M hanging around, you could order one of these:
You might have to wait, there's a bit of a waiting list (of 1 admittedly). http://www.p2steam.com/
Zad said:
Well I did mention peace and happiness on pages 1 and 2. And if I can't have that then I'm having Concorde. Preferably all of them.
To those of you with steam loco tendencies, if you had a spare £5M hanging around, you could order one of these:
You might have to wait, there's a bit of a waiting list (of 1 admittedly). http://www.p2steam.com/
Another 1/2 hour of my To those of you with steam loco tendencies, if you had a spare £5M hanging around, you could order one of these:
You might have to wait, there's a bit of a waiting list (of 1 admittedly). http://www.p2steam.com/
regards,
Jet
Tornado.... sights and sounds like this were commonplace when I was a schoolboy.
Turn the sound up ... What's not to like :~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF2Jgg1LpzU
Back then, I thought such things would be around forever ... nothing lasts forever.
Turn the sound up ... What's not to like :~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF2Jgg1LpzU
Back then, I thought such things would be around forever ... nothing lasts forever.
jet_noise said:
Another 1/2 hour of my life wasted education enhanced, It's wonderful that some nerds are of the engineering rather than computing persuasion. And mad enough to actually make it happen rather than just dreaming about it down the pub
regards,
Jet
This is not a bad project for you then, all 40ton+ of it.regards,
Jet
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