The Night Mail

[Chris Snowdon]

Also relevant to port, and back to poetry, or doggerell.  I learnt this at school a million years ago:

"If two lights you see ahead/ Then Port your helm and show your red" (ie, turn to starboard).

We read Masefield's "Cargoes" as well, and I have a happy memory of walking down Bamburgh beach with my parents, about 25m apart, shouting lines from this at each other above the sound of the wind and surf.

That same week, I was too slow with my camera to capture a photo of a Sea King from RAF Boulmer heading down the beach at about 150ft, with Bamburgh Castle in the background.  Then I accidentally walked through some jellyfish corpses and I don't recommend that for fun.

[AndyID]

26 minutes ago, Chris Snowdon said:

"Port to port" - Back to the COLREGs

"Pass the Duchy 'pon the left-hand side" - Back to music, even if in this case, back in the day, some producer thought it better to have teenagers singing about a stoneware demijohn of proof-strength rum rather than a huge spliff...

 

My children and grand-children have just re-discovered that vinyl recordings are a load of cr.... 😄

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Navel gazing?

 

Hello sailor.

[J. S. Bach]

3 hours ago, Chris Snowdon said:

I only have two green panniers but still I apologise.  Please don't hate me.  In mitigation, I also have an LT red one.

I liked the 0 scale GWR one enough to get a used one from Hatton's mostly though just to brag about it! BTW, I need to put a "&" between the G and the W as it really operates on the Greenville & Winnsboro Railroad! Now, my real preference for small locomotives is this one:

Baltimore & Ohio "Docksider"; they had two for use in street trackage in the port area of Baltimore.

 

EDIT: I will have to put the two (GWR & B&O) side-by-side one day for a comparison photo shoot.

 

Edited 24 minutes ago by J. S. Bach

[J. S. Bach]

9 hours ago, DenysW said:

That can't be a proper paneer - it hasn't got any ridiculously polishable copper on the chimney.

I can add some, maybe??

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[SM42]

10 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

I liked the 0 scale GWR one enough to get a used one from Hatton's mostly though just to brag about it! BTW, I need to put a "&" between the G and the W as it really operates on the Greenville & Winnsboro Railroad! Now, my real preference for small locomotives is this one:

Baltimore & Ohio "Docksider"; they had two for use in street trackage in the port area of Baltimore.

 

 

Typical isn't it.

 

You take a photo, post it and then notice it's derailed. 

 

Back to friction and F = mrN

( I haven't got a mu on my keyboard, sorry)

 

If friction is independent of area, why are truck brake pads so much bigger than cars and why aren't those on your car much smaller and thus cheaper to replace?

 

 

 

Andy

[BR60103]

27 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

I liked the 0 scale GWR one enough to get a used one from Hatton's mostly though just to brag about it! BTW, I need to put a "&" between the G and the W as it really operates on the Greenville & Winnsboro Railroad! Now, my real preference for small locomotives is this one:

Baltimore & Ohio "Docksider"; they had two for use in street trackage in the port area of Baltimore.

 

EDIT: I will have to put the two (GWR & B&O) side-by-side one day for a comparison photo shoot.

 

I even have one of those. (in HO)

It's one of my candidates for the lead in the models to prototype high ratio.