Quote from: lanny on March 08, 2007, 09:56:06 AM
Here is the 'promised' photo of a CN/IC wreck. I believe this happened in Canada, so probably these are not locomotives marked with "IC" lettering on the cab,  as currently seen in the US on the ICRR mainline.

THNAKFULLY (and suprisingly) no one was hurt!

[img width=348 height=500]http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6603/cntrnwreckpd3.jpg[/

Two Canadian National Railway workers were pulled to safety on Thu Jan 4, 2007, after spending the night in a locomotive that slid down a steep hill in British Columbia's Thompson River Canyon Wed Jan 3, 2007.

The men were operating a Vancouver-bound freight train that went off the tracks after hitting a rock slide at about 1 a.m. local time (8 a.m. British time) on Canadian National's mainline, north of Lytton, British Columbia, CN spokesman Jim Feeny said.

Rescuers were able to use ropes to lower blankets and hot food to the train crew, but because of safety concerns decided to wait until daylight to attempt to bring them up the 50-metre (160-foot) embankment.

"It was steep and there were still some rocks coming down," Feeny said, adding that it was also safer to wait because the two men were not seriously injured.

The engineer and conductor were pulled to safety about seven hours after the accident in British Columbia's rugged Interior.

The accident has blocked CN's mainline through British Columbia for an undetermined amount of time, but the railway was working with Canadian Pacific Railway on temporarily rerouting trains.

Seasaltchap.

But the 9/11 bombers required the use of three commercial airliners, people who could at least fly a plane, the money to purchase tickets and a willingness to die for their cause.

The BBC programe showed you how to derail a train for the cost of a wrench.

And they had a TV show just after the accident where an expert demonstrated, on a steam heritage railway,  how to remove the bolts from the stretcher bar and release the points so that they could move under  a train.

Great.  Now any yahoo or terrorist knows how to remove the stretcher bolts and derail a train without the use of explosives.

IIRC, Floquil at one time, possibly in the 1950s, tried to break into the UK market but without success.  At thet time "Humbrol" were THE UK model paint company.

[My personal wish would be for an IC branchline Pacific with low drivers, but that's a pretty obscure prototype. How about something that looks nothing like a USRA engine, that there were hundreds of, like a NYC K-3 or K-11?
[/quote]

Right idea, wrong prototype.  Anything NYC always screams out "NYC", something not as identifiable would be better.

Yes!

But NOT a USRA design, nor any other design that screams out it's road of origin.

This means nothing streamlined, nothing with unique features.  Yes, a Southern Ps-4 would be fine but NOT the streamlined one.

   
ICRR 5063 trapped in rising flood waters near Holly Bluff MS 1937

Speno Rail Services power/control car for one of their rail grinding trains.

Read all about it here: -

http://www.raib.gov.uk/cms_resources/070226_I012007_Grayrigg.pdf

Seasaltchap wrote: -

"The RAF's Bomber Harris was a hated man for introducing it over German Cities. Coventry was their reprisal."

The Luftewaffe raid on the night of November 14/15 1940 was a revenge raid for the RAF's bombing on Munich on the night of November 08/09 1940.  Munich was the birthplace of Nazi Party, hence the revenger raid.

However, it must be kept in mind that Coventry, while at the time is was often said to be " the finest preserved medieval cities in Europe", it was a major manufacturing centre with Dairnler (Yes, the "German" Company), Dunlop, GEC, Humber and Armstrong Whitworth produced a whole range of manufactured products from bombers to Scout cars so it was, in theory, a military target, the same for whioch could be said any city in the Ruhr Valley later in the war.

I think Guildford Guy's got it.

Way too easy question.

As Gene said, we a drifing off topic.

However, it was the Germans who first used intersecting radio beams, on Coventry, and again "accuracy depends on your definition.  Accuracy in the his case was hitting Conventy, a city.

The Brits developed ground mapping radar, nicknamed H2S because the radar set reportedly gave off the smell of rotten eggs when warming up.  Once again, this ground mapping radar was "accurate" in that it showed when you were flying over a city.  If Berlin was your target, then as soon as the suburbs of Berlin showed up on the H2S screen, you dropped you bombs and got the heck out of there.

The Brit's were not shy in admitting their targets were civilians.  At the beginning of the war, crews were issued with maps that showed the location of churches, hospitals, schools etc..  Later in the war, the maps just showed the outlines of cities as seen in the dark and on the H2S radar screen.  All pretence of bombing industrial and military targets was put aside.

As for high altitude, precision bombing, yes the Americans were better at it but not that much better because, as Gene pointed out, they flew in formation and when the leader dropped, everybody dropped.  If the leader got lost, everybody got lost, if the leader and the second in command got shot down, everybody got lost because the average American aircrew was not trained in Naviagtion the same as the RAF crews were.  Flying 120 got you back to the UK, sort of.

Not only was the V1 target, and the V2 for that matter, "London", anywhere in London for that matter, so was the RAF's target "Berlin, or Frankfurt or any German city.  The average RAF bomber's bomb drop came within 7 miles, yes, seven miles, from the centre of the target.

Even the American's with their much vaunted daylight raids only did a little better, coming with in three or so miles of the actual target.

To say that the V!, or the V2 was targeted at a "railyard" or anything specific is like saying the RAF night bomber force was aiming for a factory, when they were just aiming for civilians, any civilian.

AFAIC, a kit is just a supply of kitbashing parts.

I frequently purchase interesting looking kits.  The reason they are interesting is that they contain nice looking walls, window openings and windows, doors and doorways, loading platforms, canopys, roof details, etc., etc..

A kit to me isn't what the manufacturer calls it, for marketing purposes, but just a collection of that I previously listed.

When the kit gets home, the box gets opened, the instructions go into the little round file, the walls go into the walls box, windows into the windows box, doors into the doors box, et.c, etc..

There is no such thing as "Structures not kitted by manufacturers" all there are are kits that supply a great source of parts.  If I want a building, I build it from the parts in the many parts boxes I've sorted the kits into.

Way too easy.

A Southern Pacific Krauss-Maffei ML-4000,  18 units delivered +3 exDRGW.
units.

German built diesel hydraulics.