Trams in the spirit of the Two Trees

[John Busby]

Hi TJ
Unable to participate due to more pressing GR projects.
But I do thing 14" is too long
I think it should obey LGB's 1100 rule and go round train set track.
a maximum of two 2 driven axels just in case some one builds a centipeed
A price fix is OK but better check every one can get enough parts in there country for that.
I don't think scale is such an issue for this one.
must have apropreate crew on board.
Its life Jim but not as we know it only if it fits.
I think Victorian era imigary sounds good as long as not to restrictive ie
Acme engineering can also have a place in the machinery
But I canot play on this one so what I think is some what irelevant
so who is going to use a coffin with obligitory resident ghost ha ha!! OOH clank rattle
regards John

[Anonymous]

We need a grown up to lay down the rules.
14 inches does seem rather long! (I won't say what my wife said)
Could you also specify a Municipal use vehicle.Language barrier.
Remember we invented the bloody language so you have no right to change bits of it [:D]

[vsmith]

How about these rules

No bigger than a loaf of bread (white bread, shepards bread, baggette, you decide)

Should reflect some kind of use (if you can justify it, OK)

Should not cost more than a good dinner for two ($50 about right?)

Should be able to fit thru a standard tunnel portal ( how gracefully it does this is up to you)

Should be able to negotiate a standard LGB R1 curve (see comment above)

Style is like clothing (Please dont tell me I can't where my Aloha shirt to a wedding)

Era is like clothing (see comment above)

Drive mechanism is up to the builder but it does have to move under its own power (what that is, battery, standard block, wind-up, wind, explosives, harnessed Gophers, is up to you but gravity does not count)

We'll take your word for it that it actually WORKS[:p]

Deadline? Nov 1 is a little tight, how about Veterans Day weekend here in the US, lets say Saturday Nov 12th at midnight photos must be posted, with heckles and derisive comments and laughter posted Sunday the 12th?

Other than that, lets race!

Waddaya think?

[Anonymous]

The children have decided that I have to build the Wallace Anti-Pesto car.Is this allowed under Municipal use vehicle?

[Rastun]

Sounds pretty good to me Vic. I think the comment on Era was to mean victorian style fantasy. I do like the idea of as long as you can justify that it has a purpose be that what it may be. I can see it now the Gnomish Gyromantic Snigglefuser. [(-D]

Jack

[powlee]

I would love to involved but I am engrossed in my first effort at building a boxcar from GR plans[banghead]. My wife says I must come out of the shed sometime.

All the best Ian P

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by troybetts

The children have decided that I have to build the Wallace Anti-Pesto car.Is this allowed under Municipal use vehicle?

sounds as about as municipal as you can get, Go for it...

As for me I'm thinking of building something I've been planning for a while now... hush hush and all that....[;)]

[Anonymous]

Ah Vic.Tell me .Go-on.
Does it involve Marvin?
You don't have to tell me really.I'll just shuffle off and do the things that electricians do.Here I am,brain the size of a planet................

[vsmith]

Let just say I'm going to take a stab at a Tram, sort of....[:P]

[tangerine-jack]

OK, here is my last bit of input, then I'll let the online community vote:

Intercourse the rules, just build a goofy piece of M.O.W. (maintenance of way) equipment that can run around your RR without snagging on anything, show the photos Nov 12th and have fun.



[oX)]

P.S. Now now, Troy, need I remind you that at Yorktown we told you Brits once and for all that we have the unalienable right to butcher any language we see fit?

[Capt Bob Johnson]

TJ,
Don't be so hard on the poor guy, he wasn't there; a gentle reminder would have been sufficient!

I'm gonna sit back and fling stuff all over the place on this one! Go for it, it sounds like fun!

You could build a station track washer (would qualify as MOW) that is used to wash down track and ballast in station to keep it from stinking after express bypasses that station but somebody flushed anyhow! It would be predecessor to the zamboni.

[BudKarr]

Gentlemen,

I am not a modeler nor do I engage in model railroading at any level. I do, however, appreciate viewing a well done layout or something scratch built.

Your talents are appreciated and I thank you for the photos.

BK

[tangerine-jack]

Bueller??






I'm building anyway, you all can play "catch me if you can", but you won't, hee hee hee[:-,][:-,]



[oX)]

[Anonymous]

Why don't Iunderstand any of this?

Have I been on holidays too much? since coming back from Europe i have been up to Hervey Bay whale watching and now I have just got back from the Great Barrier Reef at the Whitsunday Islands.

Incidentally they were called this because Captain James Cook discovered them on White Sunday 1770.

Does anyone know when white sunday is?


Rgds Ian

[ttrigg]

Ian

Whisuntide is the week following with Whitsunday, which is always the seventh sunday after Easter Sunday.

as per:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/whitsun.html

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Gee, the things you can learn here! Now, pray tell, why is it called whit - or white Sunday?