Lurking in a bush!!!

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Lurking in a bush!!!

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I went out for a walk yesterday to test run a new skirt and pair of boots along the old formation of the Somerset and Dorset railway when I found the remains of an old rusted brake van (caboose in American?) sat on old section of track!!!
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Tackleberry wrote:[...] I found the remains of an old rusted brake van (caboose in American?)
Roughly equivalent.

I wish the image was a bit larger as I was hoping for a closer look!
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British freight brake vans are small by comparison with the American caboose, as they are usually built on a 4 wheel frame instead of sat on a pair of bogies.
They provided accommodation for the Guard, together with a handbrake. Most British freights ran 'loose coupled' - that is to say that there was no continuous brake, so the brake van was important in keeping the train under control. If the route covered a long (or steep) downhill section, the train would stop at the top for the crew to apply waggon handbrakes to increase the braking effort - this obviously necessitated another stop when the gradient had been safely descended in order to release these brakes again.
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crfriend wrote:
Tackleberry wrote:[...] I found the remains of an old rusted brake van (caboose in American?)
Roughly equivalent.

I wish the image was a bit larger as I was hoping for a closer look!
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Hopefully a bit bigger, wouldn’t allow me to do the large size :roll:
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Or this might be better as I found a free photo hosting site :wink:

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Tackleberry wrote:Or this might be better as I found a free photo hosting site :wink:

https://imgshare.io/images/2019/11/09/5 ... 918594.jpg

I am getting that 404 "That page doesn't exist"

???
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Tackleberry wrote:Hopefully a bit bigger, wouldn’t allow me to do the large size :roll:
Better, certainly -- and thank you!

I've got things tuned so images of about 800 pixels in the "long dimension" will fit within the (octet-)size limitations. So, using your favourite image editor, do all the resizing in pixels instead of inches/cms/whatever; doing it in raw pixels circumvents all the guesswork (which is frequently done wrong by the software) involved. If the image is above some threshold (which I forget, there's a surprise!) a "thumbnail" will be automatically created for display in the post but "clickable" to bring up the larger one.

I think that all has a writeup at the top of the "Pics and Looks" section...
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r.m.anderson wrote:
Tackleberry wrote:Or this might be better as I found a free photo hosting site :wink:

https://imgshare.io/images/2019/11/09/5 ... 918594.jpg

I am getting that 404 "That page doesn't exist"

???
I’ll check my privacy settings...
Yeah I’m getting that too and I’m logged into it :roll:
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crfriend wrote:
Tackleberry wrote:Hopefully a bit bigger, wouldn’t allow me to do the large size :roll:
Better, certainly -- and thank you!

I've got things tuned so images of about 800 pixels in the "long dimension" will fit within the (octet-)size limitations. So, using your favourite image editor, do all the resizing in pixels instead of inches/cms/whatever; doing it in raw pixels circumvents all the guesswork (which is frequently done wrong by the software) involved. If the image is above some threshold (which I forget, there's a surprise!) a "thumbnail" will be automatically created for display in the post but "clickable" to bring up the larger one.

I think that all has a writeup at the top of the "Pics and Looks" section...
The “technical” bits went right over my head... :oops: :oops:
But yeah you’re right, never though to take a pic/get my pic taken, minus the shirt I was wearing as that’s JUST gone into the washing machine... :oops:
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Tackleberry wrote:The “technical” bits went right over my head... :oops: :oops:
There's no shame in that. Just read up a little bit and all the pieces will fall into place nicely.

The basic premise is that a digital picture is broken up into a large number of points (or elements, hence the term "pixel" which is a contraction of "Picture Element"), with so many in one dimension (say "X") and so many in the other (e.g. "Y"). I don't know what you use for image manipulation, but there should be a way for it to express everything in pixel measurements, and you can then work with that (I use GIMP, the "GNU Image Manipulation Program). In mine, the operation is called "Scale Image" and allows inputs in pixels, so I use that.
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I use IRFANIEW to resize my pictures as many are way too big for the forum. I have it set to maintain the ratio and then I can just set one aspect and it falls right into place. I always work in PIXELS and not in CM or Ft and In. :D

Nice picture of the brake van.
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Tackleberry wrote:I went out for a walk yesterday to test run a new skirt and pair of boots along the old formation of the Somerset and Dorset railway when I found the remains of an old rusted brake van (caboose in American?) sat on old section of track!!!
I assumed all the track had been lifted and recovered when the line closed, I wonder why this was left behind?  Have you told the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust about it?
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pelmut wrote:
Tackleberry wrote:I went out for a walk yesterday to test run a new skirt and pair of boots along the old formation of the Somerset and Dorset railway when I found the remains of an old rusted brake van (caboose in American?) sat on old section of track!!!
I assumed all the track had been lifted and recovered when the line closed, I wonder why this was left behind?  Have you told the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust about it?
They know that there is track left as they did as a reminder of what it used to be... :wink:
The intention is to reopen the line from Radstock to Frome, not quite sure what the owners of Whatley quarry think as that part joins the quarry line just outside of Hapsford...
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Tackleberry wrote:The intention is to reopen the line from Radstock to Frome, not quite sure what the owners of Whatley quarry think as that part joins the quarry line just outside of Hapsford...
Going well off topic here:  I've been involved in that from a distance.  Re-opening that line would transform the Radstock area in terms of prosperity and property values but it has been held back time and again by personality issues and moronic short-sighted decisions by the local council.
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pelmut wrote:
Tackleberry wrote:The intention is to reopen the line from Radstock to Frome, not quite sure what the owners of Whatley quarry think as that part joins the quarry line just outside of Hapsford...
Going well off topic here:  I've been involved in that from a distance.  Re-opening that line would transform the Radstock area in terms of prosperity and property values but it has been held back time and again by personality issues and moronic short-sighted decisions by the local council.
Yeah the council doesn’t seem helpful, especially the new houses built pretty much where the station was :twisted:
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