Trams in the spirit of the Two Trees

[Capt Bob Johnson]

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

[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

[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

[tangerine-jack]

Bueller??






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



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[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

[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.

[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?

[vsmith]

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

[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]

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....[;)]

[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

[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

[Anonymous]

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

[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]

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]

[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

[Capt Bob Johnson]

ttrigg,
You could always arm him with a sooper dooper pooper scooper and call him the town doggie doo guy! After contest he could become early model snowplow!

Or his lance could be used to lift girls skirts (DOM) to check for proper undies!

Even as envisioned he could be cleaning trash from the right of way, heavens knows most of them need that!

Oh, the seating for 2, Lady Godiva could be riding in back (How Victorian can you get?).

[ttrigg]

As I was reading through this issue, I envisioned something like Sir Lacerlot strapped to the front end of a keboshed engine, leaning forward with the sharpest pointed lance ever seen by man. Now with this rule set (public service vehicle) that bombs that idea!!!!! Bumer!!!!!!!! I'm game!!!!!! We'll have to post the full rule set somewhere in its own topic!!!!!!!

[tangerine-jack]

Should we drop the Victorian style and let the modeler choose the style? I think that would be less restrictive to creativity? We got a size, cost and theme already, why constrict style?

All in favor, say AYE by midnight forum time! Tomorrow one of you will have to post a new thread stating the complete rules, I'll be on a mission tommorrow and not able to get to a computer until much later in the evening. This could be really exciting! The digital gauntlet has been thrown! May the best Southeastern Virginia modeler win!


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[Rastun]

A dead line of the 1st of November sounds pretty good to me TJ.

[GP-9_Man11786]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Rastun

That'll teach him to park that close to the track


[(-D][:-,]

Hope he's got good insurance.

[tangerine-jack]

2 weeks was a suggestion, maybe 1 November we can post photos of what we got?





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[Rastun]

Sure I'll get in on this one too lets figure out a start date and such.
Jack

[Anonymous]

Sounds good.
Whos up for this ?
2 weeks could be tight.I'm in the middle of no-where.I won't be able to get any bits until the weekend.
You in on this Jack?

[tangerine-jack]

At-Ease, Troy!

Ok, we got so far:

1. Fit through normal tunnels/ 14" (350mm) length
2. Municipal use vehicle
3. Victorian fantasy styling
4. Cost restrictions as posted above.
5. seating for 2
6. one powered truck

Now, to be completed in two weeks? I think that would be fair for a non-scale one time use model.


[oX)]

[Anonymous]

[Rastun]

TJ had a mentioned a size restriction of 14 inches or 355mm for length, it should be able to fit thru normal tunnel portals also. How about just the restriction that it has to have a public works purpose like a police vehicle, fire truck, ambulance, dog catcher,electric company what have you just a work vehicle.

[Anonymous]

Check it out[:D]
http://www.hotink.com/wacky/index1.html

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Bout the only thing I can think of is to mount a rubber shark on the motor block, connect the tail to a gear so it will sweep back and forth and sweep the comptition off the tracks.

Seat 1 figure between the jaws, and the other hanging on to the dorsal fin!

I'm a wordsmith boys, I can fling excrement at the rotating turret and then stand back and watch where it lands all day long!