>>6608
what happened to banners?

>>6614
I couldn't tell you, to be frank. That's a better question for the admin. I'll shoot him a text and see if he has some time to drop by and chime in.

>>6616
Does he still use some homebrewn email solution gmail refuses to deliver?

Communication with him has been terribly one-sided :(
Considering how long it took to fix the tmp full issue, he's been moderately busy.

>>6562
An average of one train set a year from Lego is enough to just barely maintain "L-gauge" being a thing but not enough for the hobby to grow on its own
We should realistically never expect more wheels, buffers, track pieces -- especially now that third-party companies took it upon themselves to fulfill all Lego train modeller's needs to a high quality standard
Purism is dead if you want to get anywhere in Lego trains -- go wild
(that being said the Orient Express passenger cars is a high point and a highlight of the last several years, and it's an indication the niche seems profitable enough for Lego to keep occasionally putting these gems into production)

I just picked up a pair of HO scale steel 40ft boxcars in CPR "Spans the World" for $10 each off a widow disposing her late husbands collection. I like these boxcars and have a soft spot for the 'Spans the World' ones.

>>6615
Rapido did me a solid.

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https://archive.org/details/vintage-trains-songs-of-the-steam-age

That's a pack of 25 songs and tunes for folk with steam-oriented lifestyles.

https://archive.org/details/lp_railroad-the-sounds-of-a-vanishing-era_no-artist_
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It's an LP from the late fifties with recordings of various steam and diesel locomotives.

>>6578
Stobe.

Shoestring was old and rickety but he seemed like an alright fellow. Rest in peace.

RIP Shoestring

>>6578
Stobe, he got killed in the Baltimore area in Nov 2017
Last I heard the story was he got dragged or fell while crossing an overpass, not actually riding
Anyone know any details?

Oh I remember hearing about him going missing and was worried something had happened. A few days later, I was watching a Jaw Tooth video on YouTube and he mentioned that he unfortunately died.

Sad news. He always seemed like an interesting man. Seemed really humble, was a good father and just had a lot of great knowledge and history to share about railroads.

>>6583

I don't think anyone knows for certain what caused Stobe's death, but it's most commonly said that he got a bit too close to an Amtrak train and his backpack got caught, which resulted in him being pulled towards the train. It's possible that he was intoxicated because as genuinely intelligent and talented as that guy was, he had heavy substance abuse problems. Riding trains - even being near trains - while drunk is not a good idea, especially when you've got a heavy and bulky backpack and other supplies with you. It's far too easy to get killed while sober and freight hopping, so being intoxicated only makes the risk increase. I've freight hopped a bit and almost never bring alcohol. It just isn't worth the risk of being maimed, paralyzed, put into a coma or being killed.

>>6602
Honestly? Nothing. People just dislike them because they lack the SOUL of the older EMD engines and feel generic. Like an economy car, I guess.

The truth is that there's a good reason GE engines more than 80% of the new locomotive market in North America. They're just better than the EMD ones.

>>6603
This isn't entirely true. There are objective and quantifiable reasons why Gensets suck. I've of the biggest reasons is that railroads will often cheap out on maintenance by letting a locomotive enter service with one engine inoperable for whatever reason, thus leaving the train with, effectively, 1/3rd less of a locomotive, or even half of a locomotive if you're unfortunate enough to be running one of the older ones with two engines in it.

Also, the lag in getting power is a bummer. It's easy enough to forget that, even though an EMD or a GE won't get you power *instantly*, they'll still get power to the rail a lot quicker than a Genset that has to start up one or two engines before it can produce the extra amperage.

Also one of the manufacturers went out of business and stopped supporting existing customers so if you have any unusual issues, especially with the programming of the computers, you're just shit out of luck. This is how we end up with things like a locomotive that shuts down for fuel conservation purposes after only being idle for about 40 seconds, and will not restart unless you drop all the breakers, pull the knife switch, wait a minute, and then start it all back up again. All you should have to do is just move the reverser out of neutral and then it's supposed to start back up automatically, but because the idle limiter is borked, we end up leaving it in forward all day and running the engines even when we're sitting at a red signal for a few hours.

>>6537

This would look good pulling the Tropicana juice train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JIOZ81aYLo – The <embed> title says it all, I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky61PWAx_9g – Driving a fifty-five-year-old Düwag GT8 tram around the block in a museum in Hannover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZpmaJJV1Kc – Hannover's Line 8 as seen from the driver's seat in a TW2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFkTpifhhmk – Another TW2000, this time on Line 16.

Japanese train foamers raging when something gets in their perfect shot (bonus clips of them breaking harmonious Japanese rules to jump fences to take a picture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GctvcjIx5u8

It's like an archeological dig site. Of the sites that still work only 1 or 2 still have users on it.

BTW why isn't the banner showing up?

Just use waybackmachine and have fun seeing the past

>>6296
This is superb, thank you for posting.

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Hobbies-UK.htm – Hobbies Weekly is another British magazine that had features and articles for the railway modeller from time to time.

There were also articles on fishing, woodworking, photography, stamp collecting, music, electronics ...

https://archive.org/details/ModelEngineerVol073No1807wIndex
https://archive.org/details/modelengineer

This is the final UK magazine I know of with content for railway modellers. I am sure there are more; I just don't know of them.