Get on board the Train, rail, locomotive and train modelling thread

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HS2 construction gets green light despite lockdown

The government has given formal approval for construction work on the HS2 rail project to begin despite lockdown measures.

Construction firms involved in phase one of the high-speed rail project will need to follow social distancing rules.

HS2 minister Andrew Stephenson said: "We cannot delay work on our long-term plan to level up the country."

Prime Minister Boris Johnson approved the decision to build the rail link in February after a review into its cost.

Matthew Kilcoyne, deputy director of the free-market Adam Smith Institute, called the government's announcement "tone-deaf" in the light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Hopefully I’ll get to ride it next time I’m in the uk

 

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My new Hornby model came in

 

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The world record for pulling a train using model trains

 

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This could be interesting

 

[C. Lee]

Actor William Gillette is featured in a two-minute newsreel, “Sherlock Holmes Turns Engineer,” filmed by Fox Movietone News in 1927. Gillette’s point of pride—his short-line, narrow gauge train—is shown traveling over the three-mile route on the grounds of his 184-acre estate, the Seventh Sister (known today as Gillette Castle) in East Haddam, Conn. From the 1920s through the ‘30s, Gillette’s personal railroad amused visiting dignitaries from Albert Einstein to Calvin Coolidge as it carried them across bridges, trestles, and through a tunnel Gillette designed himself. The railroad included electric- and steam-powered locomotives, two Pullman cars, and an observation car. You can see them at the castle’s visitor center.

 

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That would be so awesome. If I ever become a millionaire that’s what I’m doing haha

 

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Turn a train car/caboose into your apartment/tiny house. Interesting!

Caboose for Sale: Yes You Can Live in a Refurbished Train Wagon!

 

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Geez that would legit be amazing. I would love that

 

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When I was about 19, one of my supervisors from work invited all of us to his house for a Halloween party.
We pulled up and he had a real train caboose over in his side yard.
He had converted it into a man cave, complete with a fully stocked bar.
I don't remember much after that....

 

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When I was about 19, one of my supervisors from work invited all of us to his house for a Halloween party.
We pulled up and he had a real train caboose over in his side yard.
He had converted it into a man cave, complete with a fully stocked bar.
I don't remember much after that....

I’m so jealous! That’s the ultimate Batchelor pad lol