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20)     David Jordan, Chairman of EATM  Location: East Anglia Transport Museum Society	Wednesday, 25. April 2012 17:51 Host: dcb.gotadsl.co.uk     Due to high volumes of rain and extremely soft ground, car parking capacity for the forthcoming London Event at EATM has been reduced by approximately two-thirds, making spaces very limited. In order that all visitors can enjoy the event with the minimum of inconvenience, we respectfully suggest that, wherever possible, visitors park in the nearby towns of Beccles and Lowestoft and use the FREE BUS SERVICES to reach the museum. These will run at regular intervals throughout the event. A full timetable will be available on www.eatm.org.uk very shortly. Ample parking is available in both towns on a 'free' or 'paid' basis. Locations and details can be found at http://www.waveney.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=508&categoryID=200072 Hope you can help, and hope to see you there.
19)     David Bradley  david(at)cyberpictures(dot)net Location: United Kingdom	Sunday, 18. March 2012 14:32 Host: dcb.gotadsl.co.uk     Sunday 6th May and Bank Holiday Moday 7th May. Opening Times 10.30am - 5pm on both days. This working museum is at Chapel Road, Carlton Colville, Suffolk, NR33 8BL. Every available London trolleybus will be on site that weekend, and hopefully they will all be fit for operation with passengers. The "fleet" will comprise Nos.1 and 1768 from LTM, 1348 and 1812 from Sandtoft, plus EATM residents 260, 796, 1201 and 1521. The 'Diddler' and 1768 [plus possibly an EATM-based trolleybus] will return to Acton Depot via the Fulwell Depot Open Day the following Saturday. Trolleybus 50 Open Day at Fulwell Garage, Twickenham, TW1 5NX on Saturday 12th May 2012. Open 10am to 5pm. An event to mark the 50th Anniversary of the end of London's Trolleybuses. Static display of preserved London Trolleybuses and other classic London buses, transport collectors fair and more. Free entry. A vintage bus service will operate between Hampton Hill and Fulwell Garage. NvhQIHKwbyQwlzXRFly: Hi Steve:- Miraculously one of the 1921 Merton/Mt. Pleasant trolley checoas survived and is now at Rockwood, although without any of its electrical or mechanical equipment. It does have its original wood spoked hard rubber wheels. An early edition of one of the trade journals had an excellent treatise on how these checoas used off the shelf, Birney car components to power the Packard bus/trucks with a cobbled together controller and, just like the gas powered vehicles, all of this was under the hood with a driveshaft to the rear axle. At each end of the line the checoas were turned by wyeing. At Eglinton using a TRCo. style layout and at Yonge Street by using an off street tail. Ever seen a trolley coach Wyed? I hadn't until I had an opportunity, while driving a Chicago Marmon Harrington at the Illinois Railway Museum, of doing it myself. I'm doing WHAT? I asked the man who was my guide and pilot!I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a groundman for the eyes in the back of your head, but I was amazed at how easy it was. Using the rear view mirror and keeping the poles' ropes in the centre of the coach body while your operating the beast in reverse and Bob's your uncle you'll stay under the wire the entire time and ready to go back the way you came, sweaty palms and all! By the way, unlike Toronto's ex-Cleveland Marmons, that Chicago retiree had a lot of get up and go. Its accelerartion rate really impressed me as I kicked up the dust on their hard packed dirt demonstration road.
18)     John Eastaff Models  jd(at)jemkits(dot)com(dot)au Location: -	Wednesday, 18. January 2012 18:20 Host: dcb.gotadsl.co.uk     Nice pantographs are available here: http://www.halling.at/railwaymodel/pdf/katalog.0.pdf in HO scale, but you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between HO & OO. Working trolley poles, ready assembled, you can buy from http://www.miniaturesbyeric.com/itmidx1.htm and http://www.mtsimports.com/misc.htm#TROLLEY . I have MTS poles, and Eric's HTP2 poles, admittedly not yet running under wire, but they certainly look promising. Spring tension on Eric's is higher than recommended, but I stretched the springs on mine so they should be OK now. Several of my trams use Precision Scale (ex Kemtron) kit-built poles, but the springs are too long & need to be cut in half or replaced, and sometimes the castings are poor. With my hands getting shaky I tend to buy 'ready rolled' these days. EvzNeBnyEEPNJO: In an ideal world the proposed Oxford Street Tram would have exndeetd westwards, from Marble Arch to connect with the West London Tram at Shepherd's Bush, to create the spine of a new tram network. However, thanks to my NIMBY neighbours in W12 and the political opportunists that run my local council, this is now nothing but a pipe dream. For shame...THC ivmiunAaWcpzVzYh: I'm not sure if a parking gaagre is necessarily safer unless there's camera on each level, but then again it's more likely an accident will occur as well. Regardless, I like gaagres, especially the massive one at Universal Orlando. I would also LOVE to a roller coaster attached to / take advantage of the structure. Interesting piece here, and I loved the buffet of statistics. From now on if it's a gravel lot and it's free I'm not going to complain!
17)     Syd  Location: -	Wednesday, 18. January 2012 18:17 Host: dcb.gotadsl.co.uk     I am now able to continue my OO models but need help. I intend having my stock to work off overhead but I'm stuck. Can anyone point me in the direction of trolley poles and Fischer bows ready made and a "how to" make my own working models thanks in advance RvDhSCijAWEjyz: Good post! I think that looking at tghins from a new angle is the only thing that will keep us young. Certain tghins I won't change--they're non-negotiable. But most tghins can benefit from a different perspective. (Like I DO look ridiculous when I run now--so we run before sun up. Everyone looks better in dim light.)
16)     Evan James  bce(at)xtra(dot)co(dot)nz Location: Auckland	Sunday, 18. December 2011 10:01 IP: 118-93-69-92.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz     Interesting to see so much is available to model trams in 7mm scale. I am a member of the Tram Section of the Museum of Transport and Technology at Auckland where I help restore and drive the real thing, including ex Sydney Baldwin steam tram 100, which I am helping overhaul at present. I model American narrow gauge railway in On30, and am building a Sacramento Northern interurban kit as a diversion at present. This has got me thinking that scratch building an Auckland tram or two in 7mm could be rather interesting, so I could well be back.

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