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mugman wrote:I don't think blowing one's own trumpet a little when you're proud of something achieved is too much of a crime. I'll just add that all the model buildings on the railway are created from my own invention...a modelling system still on the market called JigStones. This system allows users to cast their own components in a rapid set cement, and to build pretty much anything they fancy. A sort of Lego for adults. If you google JigStones and pull up the images you'll see a massive amount of creations that have been achieved around the globe. That is extremely satisfying to me. Pete
Dam* Pete I did not know it was you who invented JigStones. I helped a friend build some structures for his out door layout and we used JigStones. I found it was easy to build all of his structures. They have stood up for quite a while now he never brings them in out of the weather. Rain, sleet, snow, heat nothing seems to bother them. I just wish I had taken photos of them. He has moved away from here and rebuilt his railway. He is still using the buildings.

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It's certainly a small world Fred! Yet another happy customer then.

Here's the very first small test model built in 1990-ish. Still out in my garden.

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A couple of additional steamers have come to the railway, one of which I've been keen on for some years. It's a B Class Darjeeling & Himalayan Railway model 0-4-0 saddle tank; this one is named 'Himalayan Bird'. A real beauty. The quirkiness of all the fittings appeals to my love of chaos.
The other engine is based upon 0-4-2 tank 'Tom Rolt', the name of a shining light in the 1951 rebirth of the Talyllyn Railway in Wales, after the line had been abandoned as a non profit millstone. Both are models by Roundhouse Engineering, Doncaster, UK. At least some products are still produced in Britain!
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I shared some of your photos of the railway with a friend and he was mighty impressed with your workmanship. He wanted to know if we could visit. I then told him the line was in England and he was so disappointed. Neither of us has the where with all to make a trip that far. Although I really want to visit the Railway museum too.

The new engines will make a great addition to your garden for sure.

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mugman wrote: At least some products are still produced in Britain!
I have a number of pair of shoes produced in and sent to me across the pond. Britain, like the US, still makes some things.
When I was still working and wearing nice dress shoes, all of them were from a US company that made them in Wisconsin. Fairly expensive, but if you used their recrafting service whenever they needed soles, I would get ten or more years out of a pair. Recrafting replaced the soles, heels and footbeds and they threw in a new pair of laces for about one third the price of a new pair.
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Wow! That is VERY cool!!
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Absolutely brilliant, what a hobby you have! It would be interesting to see it in person some day. :) I have thought about starting my own model railway, more than likely indoors though, it is just a case of finding the time to put into it!
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skirted_in_SF wrote:
mugman wrote: At least some products are still produced in Britain!
I have a number of pair of shoes produced in and sent to me across the pond. Britain, like the US, still makes some things.
When I was still working and wearing nice dress shoes, all of them were from a US company that made them in Wisconsin. Fairly expensive, but if you used their recrafting service whenever they needed soles, I would get ten or more years out of a pair. Recrafting replaced the soles, heels and footbeds and they threw in a new pair of laces for about one third the price of a new pair.
THAT is Un-American. Planned obsolescence, that's the ticket! <g,d&rvf> :hide:

I remember taking shoes up to the local cobbler/shoe shop for new heels and so on. Within easy walking distance of the house, even. Don't know if there are any such shops in my area anymore.
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Darryl wrote:
skirted_in_SF wrote:
mugman wrote: At least some products are still produced in Britain!
I have a number of pair of shoes produced in and sent to me across the pond. Britain, like the US, still makes some things.
When I was still working and wearing nice dress shoes, all of them were from a US company that made them in Wisconsin. Fairly expensive, but if you used their recrafting service whenever they needed soles, I would get ten or more years out of a pair. Recrafting replaced the soles, heels and footbeds and they threw in a new pair of laces for about one third the price of a new pair.
THAT is Un-American. Planned obsolescence, that's the ticket! <g,d&rvf> :hide:

I remember taking shoes up to the local cobbler/shoe shop for new heels and so on. Within easy walking distance of the house, even. Don't know if there are any such shops in my area anymore.
I should have been more clear. New heels were done at a local shoe repair shop, usually twice before the soles were worn enough to send for recrafting. There were about four repair shops within easy walking distance of where I worked.
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Try this link :arrow: BEKONSCOT Model Village and Railway - Outdoor Trains

Quite a bit of work went into this "Garden Rail Road"

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