RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2023 23 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Just need that Gallagher bloke for Parker. Never seen them in the same place together so it does make you wonder..... Parker's got a better voice............😄 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 20 minutes ago, melmerby said: Parker's got a better voice............😄 I bet he smoked Capstan full strength.. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 2, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2023 1 hour ago, Porkscratching said: Blimey 6ft gauge tube trains now... I believe the Breitspurbahn was intended to work on a similar principle, a double track main line being available for 'normal' running after the ridiculous impractical bloated monster had passed (I mean the Breitspurbahn train, not Hitler, but the desccription works both ways...). 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 3 minutes ago, The Johnster said: I believe the Breitspurbahn was intended to work on a similar principle, a double track main line being available for 'normal' running after the ridiculous impractical bloated monster had passed (I mean the Breitspurbahn train, not Hitler, but the desccription works both ways...). His chum Goering had a posh train too as I recall.. Not to mention a massive, no expense spared, model railway at home.. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted December 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2023 22 minutes ago, Porkscratching said: His chum Goering had a posh train too as I recall.. Not to mention a massive, no expense spared, model railway at home.. Unfortunately, not too many photos of it still exist; if many were even taken. I have seen maybe one or two views. That reminds me that I acquired an O scale German 1930's prototype passenger car that is decalled with "DEUTCHES X REICHSBAHN"* but has what look like PRR 2D-P5 refrigerator car trucks under it. Oddly, no one else bid on it so I got it real cheap! I wonder why? 😲 * The X represents the gammadion. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2023 2 hours ago, Porkscratching said: His chum Goering had a posh train too as I recall.. Not to mention a massive, no expense spared, model railway at home.. The few photos I've seen show exactly what I imagined Hermann Goering's train set would look like; ordered symmetrical track layout, roadways all at dead right angles, set out on the floor with a control console on a raised lectern, so the operators' (over)view was that of a bomber, which he was familiar with from his WW1 career, or perhaps a god, looking down on little irrelevant people and ordering their world in a way that could not be challenged. It seemed to be product of a mind obsessed with control and, uber alles, POWER!!! Fits the high-ranking Nazi profile to a T. He liked to show it off to his house guests, who mostly enjoyed it, or said they did... Ridiculous impractical bloated monster is a pretty good description of 'Meier'. Built and installed for him by Marklin as a gift, IIRC. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, The Johnster said: The few photos I've seen show exactly what I imagined Hermann Goering's train set would look like I'm not defending the individual, but that feels like you are projecting and I suspect that most customers of Frank Hornby's O gauge tinplate model railways of the 1930s looked quite similar - on a much smaller footprint. Apparently the Reichsmarschall had two model railways - one in the basement and one in the attic from both Trix and Märklin. Images are easy to find on the web. The 'state of the art' of British model railways of the period seems to be in vicarages - one of the few places where there might be enough room to break out of the roundy-roundy format. The 1930s magazine "Railway Wonders of the World" (I have my grandfathers set) has a couple of examples. One by the Rev. Edward Beale. Another by Rev. A. H. Webb. I suspect these were quite remarkable in a time dominated by roundy-roundies. The magazine has far more examples of live steam 'miniature' railways than smaller scale 'model' railways as we know them. Edited December 3, 2023 by Ozexpatriate 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted December 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 3, 2023 Intresting to know where some of these pioneer gauge 0 live steam engines ended up 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BachelorBoy Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 10 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: * The X represents the gammadion. You might be surprised by the number of swastikas in Asia. It's used as symbol to represent the creativity of God/good fortune/the universe, still There are Red Swastika Schools in Hong Kong and Singapore. And it's not unusual for statues and pictures of Buddha to show a swastika on his chest. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted December 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2023 17 minutes ago, BachelorBoy said: You might be surprised by the number of swastikas in Asia. It's used as symbol to represent the creativity of God/good fortune/the universe, still There are Red Swastika Schools in Hong Kong and Singapore. And it's not unusual for statues and pictures of Buddha to show a swastika on his chest. In South Asia (India) those are reversed and it's quite offensive to compare them with the "German" version. I know I was VERY surprised on my first trip to India and was quickly "educated", in a friendly way, by my hosts - who were obviously well used to the reaction from European visitors. Kev. 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tangoman69 Posted December 4, 2023 Share Posted December 4, 2023 Just taken a six foot roll of bubble wrap to a charity shop. The bloke on the till said to pop it in the corner. Took seven hours. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MarcD Posted December 4, 2023 Share Posted December 4, 2023 I was in the natural history museum this afternoon and saw this. Santa Claws is coming to town! Marc 1 1 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Popular Post BoD Posted December 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 6, 2023 I have just tried to log onto the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers website and …. 1 2 2 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted December 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2023 57 minutes ago, BoD said: I have just tried to log onto the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers website and …. There aren't any, that I can see. and I know I won't be the only one on this forum dull enough to check... (red-red-brown, 220 ohm) 2 2 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted December 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2023 (edited) 48 minutes ago, Nick C said: There aren't any, that I can see. and I know I won't be the only one on this forum dull enough to check... (red-red-brown, 220 ohm) I did have a little bet with myself that somebody would. I've just won a tenner off myself... so, thank you. Edited December 6, 2023 by BoD 5 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 6, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2023 3 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: I shall use a that diagram elsewhere - but with the names changed for suitable effect. (You know who you are) 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 6, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2023 10 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: Total spoof, look at the maker's name😉 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 4 hours ago, Tim Dubya said: Definitely fake. The real one is here. https://www.cbr.com/he-man-masters-universe-fisto-meme/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcD Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 7 hours ago, BoD said: I have just tried to log onto the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers website and …. Witchcraft! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted December 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2023 2 hours ago, melmerby said: Total spoof, look at the maker's name😉 With a quick glans, not everyone would notice. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted December 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2023 Just now, franciswilliamwebb said: With a quick glans, not everyone would notice. Thats not where the fist goes... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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