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I have an unbuilt DC kits class 105 that I bought in 1994, still in it's original box. Jim

A man and his wife check into a hotel in Chigago. The hotel is unfortunately placed very close to the famous Chicago "L" (Think Blues Brothers here) The husband wants to have a drink at the bar, but his wife is extremely tired so she decides to go on up to their room to rest. She lies down on the bed... just then, and elevated train passes by very close to the window and shakes the room so hard she's thrown out of the bed. Thinking this must be a freak occurrence, she lies down once more. Again a train shakes the room so violently, she's pitched to the floor. Exasperated, she calls the front desk, asks for the manager. The manager says he'll be right up. The manager is skeptical but the wife insists the story is true. "Look... lie here on the bed -- you'll be thrown right to the floor!" So he lies down next to the wife. Just then the husband walks in. "What," he says, "are you doing here!?!" The manager calmly replies, "Would you believe I'm waiting for a train?"

Nadir for 34016 "Braunton" at the end of the scrap line at Barry in 1981. Happily In 2007 she returned to steam for the first time and she returned to the mainline for the first time in August 2013 Jim

"There can be only one", Colin, or is it Connor MacLeod from the Scottish Highlands, known as the Highlander

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

Surely all real life locomotives were referred to as "she", never "he"?

I believe that this is a Newspaper Courier Van, at Craigentinny C.S. Edinburgh jim

The top one is an oddity, the unit has the correct headcode for Bridgeton but it is at Bellgrove, one stop past the junction for Bridgeton, wonder if he had been wrongly routed?

GWR memory sleepers - they were trying to get back to having the rails 7ft apart :-)

A recent disturbing trend on recent years has been the practice of throwing eggs at houses that appear to have people in but don't answer the door to "guisers", We try to go out on Halloween now. Jim

Does this count NS 1700 class No 1734 at Appledoorn on an inter regional working formed of DB stock Jim

What would be the minimum time allowed between a medium sized locomotive coming on shed to be turned, watered and coaled and being ready for it's next duty? Jim

The film was on Channel 5 last night! Jim

It can be quite funny sometimes if you are on a new road and the Sat-Nav has not been updated, a few years ago I got one supplied with a hire car and it was obviously out of date. Driving along a new stretch of the A1(M) every time I approached an overbridge it would tell me - "sharp right in 200yds" Jim

Drem - 90031 on an Edinburgh to North Berwick working 29th March 2005, eagle eyed viewers will see the 37 in the distance on the binliner. Jim

Going back to yesterday - The Railscot site confirms the middle road has been lifted, don't know exactly when, but photos from the 1980s show it there but photos from the 1990s show it lifted. https://www.railscot.co.uk/search/index.html?textfield=dumfries# Jim

68030 and 68003 on a Hunterston to Sellafied working on 5th July this year One week later 68001 and 68023 were in charge Both photographs taken at Prestwick. JIm

On the Turning Away - Pink Floyd

We will send a few down from Scotland to swing on the lighting bar and break it, then dig up your static grass and take it home in wee squares

Can we have a NSFW warning for any more of these please!!

Looking in very clean exterior condition, 47747 "Florence Nightingale" at the now demolished Millerhill Fuel Depot 12-03-2005 JIm

Neither are DCC chipped but the sound is way better than anything else on the market!

J3832 - The Dunragit Bypass now cuts right across the fields in the foreground in that view. Jim

Until 1996 they were still regarded as a weapon of War! Before slagging off the playing of bagpipes have a wee read at this page http://www.scotclans.com/bagpipes-a-weapon-of-war/ the bravery of these men was astounding. Jim

318266 is currently en route to Doncaster http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O35904/2017/10/17/advanced