Need to shell out? Nothing beats Cadburys.
love their old Creme Egg, sweet and cheap.
Wish I can read some ghost stories related to the railroad here. But I am afraid it is against the forum rule #2. [W]
I see nothing in Brian’s ‘revised standard version’ of applicable TOS that would preclude rail-related ghost stories. There were certainly more than a few over the years in Railroad Magazine alone, which makes those historical for discussions here now…
Buffalo Grand Terminal would be better.
Looking down from the taxi ranks to the old train lines where at its peak, 200 trains ran daily. LUKE SPENCER
Cool. Let’s start with this movie “ESCAPE FROM LIMBO” by Pennsy. I think it fits the theme of Halloween. [}:)]
Good film, have not seen it before.
Meanwhile back to chocolat, this time in colour.
Was inside here in the Central days, Albany, too.
Don’t want to go back.
Thank You.
BOO!
Thank goodness, the Free Press, still rules at Kalmbach. If you submit anything that doesn’t qualify to fit the Classic Trains forum it won’t be approved to be read and that’s that! The only thing you loose is the time spent writing it.
Before you go do your Trick or Treat thing, be sure and check out The Way it Was above the Classic Trains Photo of the Day. The set of Black and Orange New Haven FAs is quite fitting for today!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Vince, you just reduced Lady Firestorm to tears! One of the things she always looked forward to during a trip to Newfoundland were REAL English Cadburys!
For a while there was a British import food shop in Ridgewood NJ where she could indulge herself, but it’s gone now.
The Cadburys available here in the US are good, but just not the same.
Me? I’m in mourning for the late, lamented “MilkShake” candy bars. It’s at this time of year I miss ‘em the most. [:’(]
And dang, I’d love to have that great-looking locomotive!
Wayne
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Wow, that was some spread! Looks like a GM factory!
Betcha it smelled great around there! Talk about a fantasyland!
By George, it’s the Kansas of Blighty!
Wonder how sophisticated the calculation to determine the ‘effective center of the country’ was? There’s sure to be an intellectual discussion of it somewhere.
I rather enjoyed the discussion of marketing on pp. 31-40.
Cadbury used to use the students at Roald Dahl’s boarding school (Repton) as test subjects for new products.
It’s where he started thinking of the story that became ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.
Every time I see ‘Repton’, I think of the most advanced steam locomotive at Steamtown, the ‘one that got away’. Why couldn’t you Britannophiles in Canada have taken it and restored it so we who appreciate sophistication in small packages could have it around easily?
We’ll probably lose the Leyland high-speed railbus in much the same way, for the same general reasons. Hard to believe all the places that thing has gone, or that no one at Amtrak or Leyland either could remember how the Budd-Michelines shunted signals relatively reliably with poor weighted contact… it was a kind of Eighties cover of the NH Mack FCDs, and about as worthwhile, but it was an early attempt at using the Wickens/HSFV research gainfully, and even though it has been aptly if a bit witchily described as product of “a joint venture between Leyland and BR to combine the worst features of rail and bus” it is still a valuable artifact of how things were looked at toward the end of the Carter Administration…
I never knew this, but it seems we did just that. And then sold it back to England [D)]
Repton ran in Nova Scotia after Steamtown sold it:
http://trainweb.org/sandlrwy/cbsr.html
A shame that DEVCO’s tourist railway ended up just like all their other ventures.
But maybe it’s just as well that Repton went back across the pond, we don’t have a great track record of looking after British locomotives over here. The CRHA neglected and damaged ‘Dominion of Canada’, which ended up having to go back home in order to get a proper cosmetic restoration.
And I shudder to think of what could have happened to ‘Flying Scotsman’ had Sir William McAlpine not stepped in.
Meanwhile Repton is back in steam:
lol. I once suspect such idea was inspired by the Aerotrain of GM. But at least the Aerotrain was constructed by new material not used buses. I am a big friend of betterment cars but the ‘Pacer’ aka “nodding donkeys” is probably the last thing I want to ride on it again. Remember the good old days when the UK wouldn’t set the bar too low:
Nodding donkeys, that’s hilarious!
From our friend Mike who continues to amaze with stuff no one can find. If you enjoy British rail at all here are vintage scenes around the Bournville plant and station at what appears to be ‘near’ the end of steam operations. In addition to No 1 there are others, notably a saddletank steam and a siderod Diesel. Also some mainline Diesel powered trains at the Bournvile station. Did the Brits not know how to handle their coal fuelling? Good grief, some pretty chunky coal in there as well. Well everything works so not too bad but perhaps they could get some expertise from the CPR and ring over to the Dominion.
One trip in a Pacer I recall was from Bristol Temple Meads to Weston super Mare. It was a two car Class 142, but sadly it was connecting with a seven car HST from Paddington. This wouldn’t have been a problem except that about half the passengers from Paddington caught the Pacer. So my experience was similar to peak hour on an LT tube train with the added dynamics of the Pacer. After a few stations i got a seat and the experience reverted to normal, at least for a Pacer.
There have been similar four wheel “railbuses” built and tested in the UK every ten years, from the mid 1930s onward, with varying degrees of success, and definitely preceded the GM Aerotrain. It is surprising how similar these railbuses looked from generation to generation, although being rejected each time (except for the last). BR did build a locomotive hauled coach, on a 64 ft underframe using Leyland bus panels which was analgous to the Aerotrain in some ways.
The Pacers were the only railbuses built in large quantities in the UK.
Peter