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It’s #frontendfriday again folks. Harry the Hammer, loves his small lump hammer. He uses it for everything, including breaking eggshells on raw and hard boiled eggs. After adjusting the aperture of the colliery screen behind the loco to allow taller engines through, his focus it now the engine. For years he’s pondered on reworking the front of the colliery Peckett to make it look like a streamlined A4 pacific express loco. Just a few taps is all it will need….
#frontendfriday sees four beautifully preserved trams at Tramway Museum - St Kilda, South Australia on display back in December 2015.
From left to right: MTT F1 Type Drop Centre Tramcar, Number 264 (1926), 264 worked most lines throughout the extensive Adelaide system.
Next door to that we have, MTT C Type Tramcar, Number 186 (1918), 186 worked on the Croydon to Keswick line and the C-Type cars also found use on the Port Adelaide System during the 1930s.
Next, we have an MTT H Type Tramcar, Number 360 (1929), which worked the converted steam to electric traction line to Glenelg from 1929 onwards. The H's also found use on the Kensington Gardens line too!
On the far right we have, a Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (M&MTB), W2 Class Tram, Number 294 that was actually built in Adelaide by Holdens Body Builders (later General Motors Holden) at Woodville in 1924.
The W2s found themselves working out of the Kew, Malvern and Camberwell Depots in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
It’s that #frontendfriday thing again. Unusually a ‘USA’ tank engine is shunting the sidings at the colliery. But nobody can be seen, the reason for this being that all our favourite miniature weirdos and fruitcakes have been abducted by aliens. But to be honest it’s quite nice to experience a bit of peace, quiet and ‘me time’ without them cluttering up and getting in the way of the camera. I’ve a feeling that Nasal Nigel will be the first to return, for it’s unlikely that even the little green men from planet Zob 13a will be able to cope with him for more than a few hours.
It’s #frontendfriday again. With warm hands deep inside his special heated pockets, Nasal Nigel enjoys the warmth of his bus-spotter green flasher-mac whilst watching the 9am goods from Frome trundle between the pub and the colliery. Mother will be pleased.
It’s front end Friday #frontendfriday folks. In the latter years of the Evercreech to Highbridge line, engines were usually limited to ex Midland and SDJR 0-4-4 tanks, Midland 3F 0-6-0 tender locos, BR Std Class 2 & 3 tank engines, and later ex GWR Collett 0-6-0 locos. But very occasionally other locos would appear, this being one of them. In the early 1950s for a couple of years, Bath Shed homed a small number Ivatt 2-6-0 engines, and here we have 43017 blasting through Catcott. I’m not sure what the service was, for it certainly wasn’t going to stop at Catcott if the exhaust is anything to go by.
#fef #frontendfriday A hot summer Friday in 1959 at Windmill Sidings. Scaffolder Erik, pays little attention to his twin half brother Driver Dave propelling his wheezing old kettle in to the sidings to collect freshly harvested triffid plants. They being much sought by the more adventurous 1950s diner.
Well it’s that #frontendfriday thing. Here we have one of Gresley’s A4s, number 60029 ‘Woodcock’ (oooh I say matron) to be precise. And here is the steamy greasy beast blasting north on a 3ft board of Peco in my studio. 12 coaches wouldn’t fit, so just pretend they’re beyond the carefully posed coach on the left which hides the edge of the world. The Flat Earth Club will like this photograph, because it explains why not a single one of them has actually seen the edge of the earth.
Dairybeck has multiple ‘personalities’. But it’s not its fault. I just need to keep taking the meds. 😉
It’s that #FEF or #frontendfriday many in social media land get excited about. It’s particularly popular with diesel fanatics and soft porn fanciers for some reason - though ‘mother’ won’t be impressed with the latter. I’m sorry it’s not a Class 37 or a Deltic, but I don’t have too many diesels, so this is about as diesel loco-horny as it gets. But there are many more sites out there, especially featuring loco hungry traction maintenance depots for the disappointed who need that multi loco English Electric fix, ideally in BR banger blue of course.
Anyway, and finally: here’s the morning goods from Evercreech Junction arriving at Combwich, which today is most unusually hauled by old ‘sad eyes’, aka a Class 22. It’s loco 13 and a Friday - specially for those glass half empty types, of which there are many, especially when the major toy train manufacturers announce their forthcoming releases for the year.
I missed a trick here, for I should have posted this load of nonsense on Friday 13th a couple of weeks ago. Sorry.
#FrontEndFriday with Automotive Rhythms & Throttle Life’s 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4X for our 2022 Adventure Tour! Featuring an off-road suspension with a 2-in lift, the AT4X is energized by a 6.2-liter Ecotec V8 producing 420 hp and 460 lb.-ft. of torque. It’s mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission with multiple driving modes and a towing capacity of up to 13,000 lbs. More importantly, the pickup handles various road and weather conditions utilizing Goodyear Wrangler DuraTrac LT 275/65R18 all-terrain rubber. With a base MSRP of $73,300, the Cayenne Red Tintcoat exterior and Obsidian Rush interior tips the scale at $76,790. #LetsRide #GMCAT4X GMC GMC AT4 GMC Arabia
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An excellent turnout of motorbikes at Boston Bike Night yesterday.
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