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| Date | 30 Dec, 2009 |
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| How did you find us? | Favorites |
| Message | I just found a connection from real life to the railway series. In "Duck and the Diesel Engine", Diesel tells the trucks that Gordon is a "Galloping Sausage". I've found that there actually was an engine that had that very same nickname: LNER W1 No.10000. It was an experimental high-pressure 4-6-4 steam locomotive designed by Gresley in 1929 and was considered "hush-hush". It was never officially named, but its nickname became "Galloping Sausage". |
| Date | 17 Dec, 2009 |
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| Message | Thanks to your website, I found the necessary information needed to model The Skarloey Railway for Trainz 2006, a Railway Computer Simulator. Currently, I am gathering information on The Mid Sodor Railway in order to model that as well. Do you have a good map of the line? I only have a map of The Arlesdale Railway to go by, and I would need a plan of The Mountain Road section from Arlesdale to King Orry's Bridge in order to plan the stations, tunnels, and topography. Thanks for Reading, and Keep up the Good Work! Matt Cooper |
| Date | 07 Dec, 2009 |
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| How did you find us? | search engine |
| Message | I have a question for anybody who can answer it. It's about the illustrations of "Enterprising Engines" and "Oliver the Western Engine". Duck and Oliver each were given two Auto coaches. For Oliver, notice that in some illustrations he is carrying a single red lamp indicating he's the tail end of the train. Wouldn't it have been standard practice to put Oliver in the middle of his train of auto coaches (as he is equipped for such operation)instead of putting him on the end of the train? He indicates in "Escape" that Isabel is used in push-pull standard pratice. Wouldn't that be hampered by having a second coach between her and Oliver? I can understand about Duck reversing because his class was never equipped for auto coach operation (heck Thomas does the same thing with Annie and Clarabel in the illustrations of "Down the Mine" even though he has no tail lamp)but Oliver just bugs me. Could this just have been because of the illustrators or maybe the practices on Sodor were different? I'm perplexed! Understand this is a question for the illustraions and not of the knowledge of the Reverend. Doubtless he knew GWR practices.
From my limited knowlege of push-pull practice, I think you are right, that to extend a push-pull train, carriages are added at either end with the loco in the middle. Probably, Peter Edward's illustration in the station of "EE" was meant to show Oliver in full detail without being encumbered by a coach. My guess is that the line was run with no need for push-pull gear in operation, as there was a turntable at each end. That leaves the lights as an anomaly, for sure! Thanks for your interest and sharp eyesight! Cheers, Martin |
Private Message added 05 Dec, 2009 |
| Date | 24 Nov, 2009 |
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| How did you find us? | Wikipedia |
| Message | I can see you've added Victoria to the RWS character 'section' but what about Albert? After all, I can clearly see that Albert is based on a Furness Railway 2-4-2T. |
Private Message added 20 Nov, 2009 |
Private Message added 15 Nov, 2009 |
| Date | 11 Nov, 2009 |
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| How did you find us? | Yahoo |
| Message | My Birthday is comeing soon Martin and I Sent the Pics To u... Happy Birthday to Gordon On November 4th. |
| Date | 21 Oct, 2009 |
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| Message | Get a base face from a toy and make a mould out of silicone, rubber, or latex etc, latext shrinks the cast a tad but that helps sometimes. Get some fine modelling plaster and make the cast using the mould (other materials for casts are optional) then when dry pop the face out and edit it to change expressions. If you haven't a base face then you will have to carve one from scratch, milliput might be better therefore. Hope this helps. Gordon 1 it seems isn't based on an A1 as such, site updates soon will explain why. My model is changed also. |
| Date | 17 Oct, 2009 |
| Message | Hi, my name is Jordan. I am just wondering how you were able to create a face for the original Gordon which was based on a class A1 Great northern locomotive. If you could tell me how you did this, it would be great because I am wanting to create a face for the NW Spiteful Brake Van. Please reply asap. Kind Regards, Jordan. |
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