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Yep that sounds like its probably the Canadian. I think the old Budd cars (the stainless steel ones) are only used on the Ocean from MTL to Hfx and on the Canadian. Graham

Spent most of the weekend on chores. I love my trees but why is it when you rake so many bags of leaves, an hour later the lawn is covered again!. Still I did manage to get some model railroading done. I sprayed a large hillside of batting trees and flocked them (actually I spent most of...

Congratulations Val!, A good choice to ensure that the gauge remains the best place there is online! Graham

and I'm even further North East that that. Modelling the CN / CP in Maritime Canada (can't get further east unless you're modelling Narrow Gauge in Newfoundland! Graham

Thats a beautiful GMD-1 Dan, I remember on my first visit to NS there were two of them switching the small yard in Dartmouth, its a pity they've gone now, they really are kinda neat. Graham

Hi Everyone, I'm finally trying to collate all of the photographs that have been taken of my local (Atlantic Canada wide) BendTrack group. To this end I've uploaded all that I have to a fotopic site at : http://easternbenderrrs.fotopic.net/ None of the photos are categorised yet, and...

Had an awesome weekend. It was the Truro (NS) model railway show and my bendtrack group set up a fantastic 3 scale mile setup (I'll see if any of the guys have pics and I'll see if they can post them. There was even some new second hand gear and I managed to acquire 2 CN green and gold DCC...

Yay!!! I'm the Ocean Ltd, which Ironically runs from my home town and about 100yds from my office in Truro!! It couldn't be any more perfect if I'd tried!! Graham

I too am coming to this thread late, and am deeply saddened by this news. Robin, seeing your creations has been an inspiration to me, you truly are an artist. My family and I will be holding you in thoughts Graham

I had another thought, I don't think the world has changed all that much (there was as much crime when I was growing up, it just wasn't reported as well) I think its more that fact that people seem to be scared these days, not only of crime but also being prosecuted for being a "bad parent" etc...

Newer Pics and a question Yeah, Some of the pictures were taken on a trip back in the late 90s. I had a wonderful nostalgic afternoon scanning the older pics, but of course I had to do some surfing too and discovered that Cardiff Canton and Bristol Bath Road are both closed!!! :( :( :(...

Hi all, I've spent all afternoon scanning some negatives from when I was a boy. Various trips in the early 80's, Crewe, Birmingham, Cardiff, Cardiff Canton Open Day etc etc. you can find them at http://grumbeast.fotopic.net/c391645.html if interested. I was from between 12 and 15...

This is an interesting thread. I really don't know what got me interested in trains. I know my mother loved trains (and we used to visit my great uncle who was a signal man on the ex GWR mainline at Pencoed in S.Wales) so she encouraged me. My aunt also used to indulge my obsession...

Great photos!, Looks like you had a grand time. I love the red stone, it would really place a layout geographically. Graham

Hi Charles, There is much speculation on the origins of "standard" gauge (4' 8 1/2"), it was introduced by George Stephenson in Britain and was adopted by many other countries. I don't think there was any particularly well though out reason for it (after all, Richard Trevithick who built...

I grew up in the uk and was a super-train-recognising-nerd. I could tell identify everything with a 5 nanosecond glance from the top of a rainy bridge from 2000meters. Now, over the course of time I did two important things. 1. I got a life and 2. I moved to Canada. All that hard earned...

Hi Val, All of the local switch jobs we get here are double headed. The usually run tail-to-tail so it may be a visibility thing as we don't have many Y's Of course it may also be that we get all of the dross and old loco's and they're worried about reliability. Still it gives me a...

As an Ex-Pat in Canada my thoughts go out to all Londoners today, My Sister works in London a lot but thankfully she was safely at home in South Wales today. Graham

A few More Here is the train as it approaches the cement plant Graham

After seeing Farmer Ron's photo's I was inspired to pop out this lunchtime with my little 2.1Mp snap camera that my wife bought me. I managed to catch train 501 (a local job out of Truro) on its way to switch a local lumber yard and cement works. Here are some of the pictures. Graham