Scalefour Forum

I haven't found any details, but apparently there was a strike by some railway workers at King's Cross in 1957, in an attempt to impose a colour bar. From a record review on http://www.wcml.org.uk/maccoll/maccoll/music/industrial-songs/ THE COLOUR BAR STRIKE. Charlie Mayo, loco-motive fireman of Kin...

Jol Wilkinson wrote: EMI is unlikely to emanate from the transformer or the mains foot switch as they are both enclosed in metal cases. Maybe from the Mains Lead itself? Metal cases seldom do much to prevent EM radiation. They are as likely to act as an antenna as a screen- even if earthed. If it i...

All models are train sets, we (I mean ordinary JoeNobodies) can't approach the distances on real railways. But I know of a prototype standard gauge curve well under (scale) 30" radius. I walked the trackbed as a young'un when the world was new, and it's there for anyone tp see on Google Maps. A...

Can someone explain what this insurance is for? It should be for stuff like you've mentioned, but what frightens insurers off is potential liability. Your 60p plastic buffers go to the USA. K.C. Jones Jr finds the packet and puts the contents in his mouth and has to be rushed to hospital to get the...

And I'd just done all the conversions to turn the EM Society's measurements (from the Finney & Smith website) to Kt and Kv values! And I also see that F&S has disappeared too... truly, we live in the latter days.

The Manchester Science Museum Beyer Peacock collection has a lot of general arrangement drawings of early locos: here's a link to an 1860 Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway 2-2-2: http://emu.msim.org.uk/web/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=15246 . And to a page around that period: http://emu.msim.org.uk...

My first Scaleforum since about 1993, and thoroughly enjoyable. Every layout worth a long look, no less than three London Roads... (OK one of them was trade) but my vote went to Enigma Engineering in the end, as it's about the size of layout I'm looking at!