ugly trains
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We should have an "Ugly Trains video thread" ... I wanna' actually hear that one (as still-photos are not enough) ULEL ... lol ... I acually love that green brick !
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You stuck a Thomas The Tank Engine quote in there. Did you do that on purpose or was that just spontaneous? I like a few British engines, though the muscular looks of the ATSF 5011 class 2-10-4 beat the British engines in looks and the tones of their whistles. Otherwise they are spectacular machines that deserve a place in history.
captainkman
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Completely intentional.
"But is it right? Is it decent?" Gordon, Off the Rails/Gordon Takes A Dip.
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Completely intentional.
You're reminding me of just how awesome the older episodes were. I still watch some of them even though I'm 21!! Only my favorite episodes, though, like the classic "Toad Stands By"
captainkman
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Might wanna re-quote my post, I got the episode the quote comes from wrong. I just noticed now.
I personally will watch Season 1-5, nothing much else. Was never a fan of Toad, Oliver or Duck. Mainly because they're Great Western.
lol :hehe: Haddock, let me introduce you to Kapitan Kman, my slightly-looney (remember, I can only say that because I'm TOTALLY looney!) Aussie/brit steamer loving partner in crime! 
BTW, I second the Madame Queen sentiment (got to climb around in her cab a few summers ago, totally worth it! The guys who own her are actually going to try to restore her to operation) but I do love me a good LMS 2MT Tender/Tank and the odd 8F, plus a few 4MT moguls for good measure...oh, and 9Fs!!!
BTW, I second the Madame Queen sentiment (got to climb around in her cab a few summers ago, totally worth it! The guys who own her are actually going to try to restore her to operation) but I do love me a good LMS 2MT Tender/Tank and the odd 8F, plus a few 4MT moguls for good measure...oh, and 9Fs!!!
lol :hehe: Haddock, let me introduce you to Kapitan Kman, my slightly-looney (remember, I can only say that because I'm TOTALLY looney!) Aussie/brit steamer loving partner in crime!
BTW, I second the Madame Queen sentiment (got to climb around in her cab a few summers ago, totally worth it! The guys who own her are actually going to try to restore her to operation) but I do love me a good LMS 2MT Tender/Tank and the odd 8F, plus a few 4MT moguls for good measure...oh, and 9Fs!!!
Are you bloody serious mate?!?!?!?! The Madame Queen is slated for restoration??!?!? First the UP's news about the 4014 and now this!!! You just made a diehard steam fan extremely happy!! I have to second the 9F's, they were always a good-looking engine. I'll watch any of the old series that used the actual G scale layout. Found that out from browsing youtube and making a few comments. I even tried watching one of the newer episodes (the one about Misty Island, only bc it had them logging locos) and that was an absolute dump compared to the glory days when it was a real series and narrated by none other than George Carlin. I don't quite understand how you say Cap'n Kman is your partner in crime, though. Are you two out sabotaging diesels? Putting sugar in the fuel tank, I think?:hehe:
You remind me of the guys at the local railroad club. We're always making jokes about each other's rolling stock. People keep saying that CSX actually stands for Crash Spill & Xplode.:hehe: I always thought Donald and Douglas were pretty cool.
lol :hehe: Haddock, let me introduce you to Kapitan Kman, my slightly-looney (remember, I can only say that because I'm TOTALLY looney!) Aussie/brit steamer loving partner in crime!
BTW, I second the Madame Queen sentiment (got to climb around in her cab a few summers ago, totally worth it! The guys who own her are actually going to try to restore her to operation) but I do love me a good LMS 2MT Tender/Tank and the odd 8F, plus a few 4MT moguls for good measure...oh, and 9Fs!!!
Totally looney, eh? You remind me of me when it comes to anything train related lol. I'm a bit crazy anyway, though I see it as a good thing and I'm crazy as in smart, not in the bad way lol. Need I bring up a reference from SpongeBob Squarepants? Somebody did actually make a reskin of SpongeBob on an F7 in Trainz.
funnily enough, I think Cappy made a horn for ye-old spongebob F7 :hehe: and putting sugar in diesel tanks...you didn't see nuthin'
(I thought what you did about the Madame Queen as well...until they said they were going to run her on french fry oil, possibly anyway! Lotsa cookouts in their future methinks.)
(I thought what you did about the Madame Queen as well...until they said they were going to run her on french fry oil, possibly anyway! Lotsa cookouts in their future methinks.)
funnily enough, I think Cappy made a horn for ye-old spongebob F7 :hehe: and putting sugar in diesel tanks...you didn't see nuthin'
(I thought what you did about the Madame Queen as well...until they said they were going to run her on french fry oil, possibly anyway! Lotsa cookouts in their future methinks.)
Looks like McDonalds will have to donate a whole lot of oil from their fryers!:hehe: I don't think that would work too well though. Methinks it would be a good thing if someone had sabotaged DR Rudolf Diesel's original engine and either seized it or did something that would have made it break down so it couldn't be saved. Although it may be just as good to run the 5000 on the same stuff UP 844 runs on, recycled crude oil.
Crude oil has to be refined before it will burn very well. UP #855 runs on No. 5 fuel oil according to the Union Pacific's Web page about #855.
UtahRails.net has a page about the subject: Using Bunker "C" as Locomotive Fuel
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captainkman
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@Sawyer: Yes, it was me who did a Spongebob hornsound for the F7's mentioned.
@haddock56: The layout was O scale, not G scale. OO gauge, running on HO track, is half the size of O gauge. O gauge was the standard in England for quite some time. All early Hornby clockwork trains are O gauge. Then the smaller scales were introduced as technology improved, and OO was so called because it was half the size of O.
You might be interested in a website called CSX-Sucks.com, Google it.
And Sawyer, please do mention what nickname you give Amcrap. There's mine.
Kieran.
@haddock56: The layout was O scale, not G scale.
OO gauge, running on HO track, is half the size of O gauge. O gauge was the standard in England for quite some time. All early Hornby clockwork trains are O gauge. Then the smaller scales were introduced as technology improved, and OO was so called because it was half the size of O.You might be interested in a website called CSX-Sucks.com, Google it.
And Sawyer, please do mention what nickname you give Amcrap. There's mine.
Kieran.
... @haddock56: The layout was O scale, not G scale.
Was it really O scale? Everything I'd read on Thomas and Friends years ago said the models used in the original series were 1:32 scale (Gauge 1 scale) locos running on 00 gauge track, powered by Märklin mechanisms.
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I'm not trying to imply that your wrong -- I really would like to know the scale used. Based on the size of the human figures in the original episodes, O scale (1:48) would seem about right, or maybe even S scale (1:64), although the most characters did have some exaggerated features, like big heads and rotund bodies, etc. Also the building don't seem over huge, as you'd think 1:32 scale would have been.
There's certainly been a good many different scales that have made up of HO/OO gauge track (to represent narrow gauge). One manufacturer, American Flyer, went off in the other direction before WWII, with it's line of 0 gauge trains that used bodies that were 3/16"=1' - 1:64 scale, that road on O gauge track (at that scale the track gauge = 80").
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Let's see... OO scale is 1:76.2. HO is 1:87. O is 1:48. HO track gauge = 16.5mm/0.650" which is the same gauge width as 00 scale track. Gauge 1 track = same gauge as G scale track which is 45 mm/1.772", but the actual scale used for Gauge 1 can vary from what's used for G Scale.
If all of that's not confusing enough, Bachmann makes a line of 0n30 gauge trains (1:48 scale, commonly known as O scale) that run on HO/OO gauge track.
Oops! I forgot about the S scale trains (1:64) that run on Sn3.5 track which is the same gauge as HO/OO.
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I'd bet they used a combination of different scales (I'm thinking O and G scale), unless they found a way to waterproof the mechanisms for episodes like 'Percy Takes The Plunge' or 'Gordon Takes a Dip'. From what I've heard LGB engines are very water resistant, and G scale is the only scale I've ever heard of people using around any water feature. In fact, one person brought an Athearn Sound/DCC SD70ACe to the club once and somebody else said "Brought the BunNy SniFfer again, eh?" No idea where BNSF got the nickname "bunny sniffer" though.................
Now that I think about it, they may very well have used O scale or maybe On3 for the Skarloey Railway episodes such as "Special Funnel" and others like "Home At Last" since the Skarloey Railway was narrow gauge and not standard gauge like the Sodor mainline.
captainkman
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http://sodor-island.net/ May be able to provide you with answers. I thought I read O gauge or Gauge 1 there. Heading more towards Gauge 1 now.