Drawing Office records of major locomotive & carriage works are a valuable reference source for historians and scratch builders.

In the UK there are many preservation projects for this purpose, NRM York(National Railway Museum), HMRS(Historical Model Railway Society) and GWS(Great Western Society) to name a few. Most interest groups serve researching and retaining original DO records, as the SDT(Somerset and Dorset Trust) and others.

UK scratch builders are spoilt for the amount of  records just waiting to be explored.

Many scratch  builders in the UK would love to have access to such wealth of information on American prototypes.

Are there repositories in the US for similar resource of drawings and information?

There is always a commercial interest in everything.

Today the discussion is about the extra hour of light in the evenings bringing more people out to the shops.

We now have 8 months of Summer Time, and only 4 months of STANDARD Time.
again, so much for anything standard!

Come to sunny Arizona where time stands still, and is the same all year round. We do not change our clocks.

Anyone interested in a Hornby Travelling Post Office, one has just come up on eBay. It comes complete with mailbags, but you need to check for the lineside equipment

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230100783237

Do you think if the 9/11 bombers needed a wrench too, that they would have been short of the funds for it?

Just how many different types of electric motors are there in use for the HO Bachmann range?

It always makes me wonder how it is that reference is made to livery, and as here "GP-50", whereas under the shells it is a Detroit built job.

The more important questions are surely how old is the motor, and what bogie is it in.

Good on you Terry !

I'll rememer it too !

Destroyer !!!!!

Looks more like the barrel for  the 15" shells of a Battleship!

"Queen Anne is dead!"

Thanks Bill.

lanny : I attach a pic' of a special 18-wheel wagon used by the LNER to transport naval gun barrels.

The pic' was taken in 1942 in the freight yards outside Paddington Station, London.


© 1981, OPC.

What weight will these well wagons take?

Surely the loco is more than 2 containers.

Think yourselves lucky you are not caught in the experiment of 20 years  ago Double British Summer Time.

Road crashes increased and more kids were killed on the roads going to school - but we still had to try it!

It's God, not Gad for me.

I use the English vowel sounds, however there are many who use the -gw- in Jaguar: I think they rely on the OED

My feeling is that -gw- would require a spelling of "qu", which may indeed be an old style of spelling.

Bill :

Technical point - "For anyone that doesn't know,........."

"That" is the impersonal for a thing, whereas for the personal it is "who" or "whom".

This is a common mistake in English.

Regards

For Mark D:

A mainly women crew of cleaners in WW1.



© Colin G Maggs, 1986

glennk28 : It is useful to have a Paypal Account. They will transmit to anyone with an e-mail address. - that is how easy it can be.

Regards