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kbvrod		#1 Posted : 21 July 2012 13:45:13(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/08/2006(UTC) Posts: 2,597 Location: Beverly, MA		Hi all, Nice video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6VAuPPufNro Dr D


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Jeremy Palmer		#2 Posted : 21 July 2012 15:47:48(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/04/2005(UTC) Posts: 2,464 Location: St. Michael, Barbados		Dr, D., Thanks for that, what a great way to spend a day, here is another one for you - a Big Boy this time.
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EMD_GP7		#3 Posted : 21 July 2012 17:16:19(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/11/2010(UTC) Posts: 192 Location: U.K. Midlands		The link below is to a 7.1/4" line which is near to me in the U.K. Midlands. It is at Kingsbury Water Park and runs lots of interesting stock as you will see from the photos. I sometimes cycle there on nice days. Click on the "Standard W/E 2012" or other menu items at the top to see the photos. At least two Garratt locomotives visit the line and I have also seen a photo of a Big Boy or Challenger but I cannot find the link. http://echillsrailwayobserver.webs.com/ Hope you find it interesting. Colin


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kweekalot		#4 Posted : 21 July 2012 23:28:36(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/06/2012(UTC) Posts: 3,437 Location: Holland		In my hometown one can find a big layout for that type of trains. They call it modelrailroad, but you can sit in the cars for a ride. In the summer they operate every day and on Sundays a much larger piece of track is open in a very beautiful park. With a nice station and so on. 1 round takes 15 to 20 minutes on Sunday, on other days only 3 minutes on a small layout You see mostly kids but also lots of fathers and grandfathers who like the smell of steam and oil. One can see 7 or 8 different steamloco's and 2 diesels. I go there every Sunday with my kids for a ride or to watch only. A 20 minute ride on these little trains is super relaxing. I will make some photos tomorrow if the weather is OK.
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cookee_nz		#5 Posted : 22 July 2012 21:48:34(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 31/12/2010(UTC) Posts: 3,955 Location: Paremata, Wellington		For me, the ultimate 'ride-on' train would be a Gauge V (just under 5" / 120mm) Marklin-made train from the early 1900's. It was discussed in this thread last year, I have some additional photo's giving perspective to the size but they are on my PC in transit. If ever I was to join a Model Engineers Society, and had the opportunity to make (or have made) my own ride-on Loco & Wagons, it would surely be a replica of this famous "Gardiner Family" train. No doubt it would probably still cost at least half as much to re-make as the original set sold for at auction. Cheers Steve PS, for those in NZ, I was dismayed to have a wander around the Wanganui Model Engineers property where it seems their outdoor railway is completely overgrown and unused for several years. The club rooms are still there but I was not there at a time when it was open so I don't know how active the club still is. The landscape is still quite clear in Google Maps (satellite image) shown below..... (the clubrooms are reference "70A") cookee_nz attached the following image(s):
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kweekalot		#6 Posted : 22 July 2012 22:47:42(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/06/2012(UTC) Posts: 3,437 Location: Holland		Hi all, Yesterday I promised some photos of the modeltrains where you can ride in. The layout is in the "Zuiderpark" (South Park!) in THe Hague - Holland. The Gauge is 7 1/4 inch. As I said yesterday, in the Summer the trains operate every day, a ride takes about 15 - 20 minutes in a very beautiful and typical Dutch park. Everybody have lots of fun, the volunteers, the children, the fathers and grandfathers, mothers...it is so enjoyable there. There is a medium size LGB layout to. Some of the volunteers have a Marklin layout at home (maybe all, but I don't know them all). (The photos are of this afternoon). Marco kweekalot attached the following image(s):
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kweekalot		#7 Posted : 22 July 2012 22:53:57(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/06/2012(UTC) Posts: 3,437 Location: Holland		And the last photos: kweekalot attached the following image(s):
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