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jpantera wrote:PS without sounding negative jdjonny having the message big up spoons on a topic relating to 37s amuses me somewhat do you know bout old school basher rivalries??

yeh, sure do, I like 'em both..

(37s more, I just dont have any pics of me with a 37)

JDJonny

Still going strong in the valley lines until december... 6 trains a day hauled by em aint bad, more on weekends!!

Took a trip up there last thursday, have a peek at my site for piccies

408, 411 and 405 were all out..

JDJonny

When I did the 3440 "return to mainline" kettle run a while back - (wasn't on it for the steam - yuck - it featured a tractor on the return leg :D ) - almost every coach had a mike taped to the roof, with a wire trailing through the quart-light puersumably to a tape recorder or similar.. (Although w...

It's because you've effectivley tried to use the IMG tag to link a webpage. Those files aren't the fotopic images - they're webpages - hence why they don't end in .jpg Open the gallery in the my.fotopic.net window, and choose images. If you look at the image properties (click the hyperlink), it'll g...

Rfairlie wrote:Is it just me or is Prince Charles constantly on steam loco footplates.

lol, if it carries on he'll soon gain himself a PTS card!

JDJonny

Was it raining, per chance?

JDJonny

I recon it's a place called "Waitotara"



JDJonny

Well there is a complete section on my site for tavy junc pics. As i only live just up the road from there, i tend to go down there for pic taking. Was the western the eden project railtour, cos i'm sure SWRG said that 67005 and 67013 was on the Eden project train on the same day. Might have been m...

PS - just realised that the jpeg compression has made the trees look blurred. If anyone wants I can post a high res pic, where you can see every branch in the distance

JDJonny

You'd have to be using SUCH a low aperture to get any sort of noticeable blur on a railway pic. Eg, http://193.0.234.78/548012000856.jpg Shutter 1/640 Focal length 13mm Apeture 6.3 Look at that pic. The trees in the distance are NOT blurred. There is heat haze which makes them look blurred, but if y...

Looking great!! Thankyou uncle red, lovely model

JDJonny

I was gutted that i missed it, turned up at Tavy junction a little late to see it go past, but just as i did turn up 66214 just left. Doesn't quite make up for missing it, but made me feel a little better. <IMG width="800" height="600" SRC="http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/103044/CIMG0439.JP...

unlucky about the fog... I was dreading opening my curtains and looking at the weather in the morning.. Coming home from Redruth on the bike the night before I had to keep my visor up because of fog.. It was in all honesty the worst I'd seen. However by morning it'd all gone! Horray.. Still, the fog...

Thanks for the kind comments

JDJonny

Some pics of D1015's trip to Cornwall yesterday, working Pathfinder's "Western Lizard". The tour went from London to Fowey and Newquay (both Cornish branch lines). http://193.0.234.78/563012000856.jpg D1015 arrives at Golant http://193.0.234.78/554012000856.jpg Slowing for the 10mph restriction over...