luckymucklebackit

Then tuck their back legs in your long school socks...........

Google maps has good 3D coverage here, I reckon the photo was taken form the little wall on the road going down to the industrial estate

The King Will Come - Wishbone Ash

Complete with this - luxury

For a 1960s layout you should have longer hoods above the aspects than later installations, i believe installations from the 1950s and 60s had a longer hood as a throwback to ARP regulations to reduce the amount of light being seen from the air. Jim

Just looking at Google Maps and the bridge that appears in the photo would appear to be still there, and there are are sharp bends on the road at each end, that one looks like it has a straight approach https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.2022&lon=-1.2162&layers=168&right=BingHyb Difficult to get the right view though as the bridge that was at the station has gone and there is a lot of tree growth blocking the view Jim

T thought it was Scotland as well but would never have placed it - there is a photograph of the bridge here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4066409 Jim

I managed to get quite a lot done over the weekend and tonight, I had painted the backscence boards a pale blue and started to position them in place, makes quite a difference I have also fabricated a "shelf" for the back of the shunting plank, this is needed to raise things above the levers that actuate the uncouplers, there will be low relief buildings sitting on top of this shelf with a brick faced wall to track level And below the bridge, the low level track diorama is taking shape, it is quite surprising how good some old Hornby set-track can look with a bit of ballast and some paint I need to have a think about the fiddle yard end of the layout now, cant make my mind up whether to have a fixed board with a couple of points, or to attempt a sliding cassette, need to sleep on that one! Jim

Coming Back To Life - Pink Floyd

Would it be possible to split the Layouts section up into defined sections (by gauge/era or geographical location), at the moment there are a huge number of projects competing for space and with only 25 entries per page and a large volume of traffic you can miss good layouts as they are away down off page 1 in a matter of hours. Just a thought Jim

Clearly the right kind of snow!

Klearly Overpriced!! How Much!!!!! (Found on another forum - had to share it here)

I would be interested to see how much was actually handled at the harbour station as opposed to the Town station, the Town station had a much larger yard. In later years steel traffic for Ireland was unloaded there. Jim

Livin' Lovin' Maid (she's just a woman) - Led Zeppelin

Hi - Their matt brown makes a great (and economic) base coat to colour the otherwise black plastic sleepers, I will pick out the sides of the rail in a slightly different brown once the ballast is down then it will get a general misting of the halfords again to tint the grey ballast. Much of that track will be heavily weeded to reflect the overgrown state of the prototype tracks around Parkhead Forge as I remember it in the 1970s and 80s. Cheers Jim

Continuing to set the bits and pieces up for the backscene and the diorama that goes under the bridge, tonight I laid the track, which is just old Hornby set track salvaged from a display layout that I dismantled a while back, as nothing will actually run on it there are no wires or anything to worry about this was then given a general spray of Halfords matt brown to remove the plastic look, After a trawl through the Canmore database I have found a couple of distinctive buildings to sit at the back of the layout, both were part of the Beardmore complex at Partkead and should be fun to build This building has a unique slatted wall which might be a challenge to build but not impossible, also managed to get the sign! The other is a simple but distinctive warehouse which will go along the back Going to need a lot of brick plasticard so I can wait for the show to get that, will carry on with as much other stuff before then Cheers Jim

Lay Down - Strawbs

Surely that's a meower, not a woofer?

Never ridden a motorbike, I saw the mess my mate ended up in after a crash and that put paid to any notion in that area. Never tried fishing, standing up to my waist in a cold river trying to entice some poor fish to its death doesn't do it for me, although standing in the freezing cold at a platform end waiting for that perfect shot of a locomotive does - go figure. Never fired a real gun, although that is one that I fancy doing (in the controlled environment of a gun club I may add) Jim

Mississippi Queen - Mountain

Check out these videos - how not to operate narrow gauge mine railways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhXEQQk8G8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvq9k6t4aUY&feature=youtu.be ...perhaps I should have posted these in "prototype for everything" Jim

Couple more interesting ones at Millerhill 26007 with VIA translator vans 26024 on an ECML wiring train Jim

Unidentified 26 at Perth Another UID 26 at Kilmarnock 26037 at Grangemouth 26008 getting ready to release 60009 (masquerading as 60008) and support coach at Glasgow Queen Street Line up of Withdrawn 27s at Smithy Lye Carraige SIdings Glasgow, taken from a passing train Will see what others I can find Jim

The NLS maps are better, this large scale map shows individual tracks https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=57.1323&lon=-2.0987&layers=170&b=1

Glasgow Queen Street, the exterior of the beautiful trainshed at the George Square end was for years hidden behind a hideous extension to the Hotel, with similar 1970s buildings stuck on each side, the developers photographs suggest a more sympathetic blending of new and old, we need to await completion before making judgement though. Jim