Model railroading

[Ben]

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@jcarmody wrote:

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@Ben wrote:

[...] chicken coop out back where my mother was born.

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Your mother was born in a chicken coop?

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Yes sir!

My grand father was one of the guys who tried to start up the unions in the coal mines and was black-balled. Work was scarse back then and my mother's older brother (who died of malnurition on the same day of the year I was born) and sister were also born in that same chiken coop. The coop itself is long gone but the house it was behind and the school house are still there.

When your mother was born in a chicken coop and your father was the son of a garbage man, it helps to keep me humble (and God knows, I need all the help I can get in that area).

Ben

[_Ian_]

I've just caught the end of a TV re-run of a James May show (For those who don't know, he is of Top Gear fame - a BBC car program and source of Darin.K's avatar), it takes model railroading in a slightly different direction. They build a ten mile long, 00 scale track from Hornby rail along a route of a former real railway line.

Its an hour long show, but some kind person has split into into six youtube clips for your viewing pleasure...

Part1

Part2

Part3

Part4

Part5

Part6

Enjoy,

Ian

[tst]

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@_Ian_ wrote:

I've just caught the end of a TV re-run of a James May show...

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The other episodes of that show were also good. In the last few years May seems to be making the better shows out of the three (although Clarkson did have a fairly good run in the 90's and early 2000's).

[_Ian_]

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tst wrote:

The other episodes of that show were also good.

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The Lego house was great! Although a Lego purist at heart, I think its a shame they couldn't have diverted a little from the traditional lego and squeezed in a little Mindstorms/LabVIEW to modernise things a little - that could have been even more impressive.