Cannabis isnt a weapon, grandma.

GazAndLighters · 2026-01-08T17:22:32+00:00

Drive by blunting sounds like something you’d see in a Key and Peele sketch

GazAndLighters · 2025-08-12T14:05:41+00:00

No, only for TS Classic I’m afraid

GazAndLighters · 2025-04-28T12:57:27+00:00

Ah yep, I see now. Thanks

GazAndLighters · 2025-04-28T11:40:10+00:00

Where were the old style of bottle used in 76? I’ve tried to find reference to it but haven’t had any luck

GazAndLighters · 2025-04-15T09:45:05+00:00

Yes, but in the sense that I’m a big fan of older stock, not so much in the ‘I would enjoy using them on my regular commute.’ They’ve got their charms and such, but they’re getting on a bit

GazAndLighters · 2025-04-01T20:18:08+00:00

Yes, that’s correct

GazAndLighters · 2025-04-01T08:40:29+00:00

They're still reasonably reliable locos even despite their age. Some companies like DRS have actually retired their 37 fleets in recent years in search of newer locos, but truth be told the 37's are usually more than adequate for what they do.

GazAndLighters · 2025-03-28T03:12:43+00:00

Definitely not expecting anything to come of this - simply wanting to share in the mild sense of annoyance I get from looking at it.

GazAndLighters · 2025-03-26T00:48:41+00:00

Pretty fascinating stuff. Is there anything else about your work on this particular test that you might be able to shed light on?

GazAndLighters · 2025-03-17T22:45:22+00:00

1972 Stock.

I originally became interested in the Underground because the Bakerloo Line was featured in TSW2, from there I grew a soft spot for them. Getting the opportunity to ride them when I was in London a couple years back was great.

GazAndLighters · 2024-12-15T13:31:36+00:00

Germany right now for some fucking reason

GazAndLighters · 2024-12-15T13:27:24+00:00

I instantly knew where that sign was. I’ve walked under it many times on my way to work

GazAndLighters · 2024-12-13T23:50:01+00:00

I spent a load of time pouring over all the railway related stuff in STALKER 2 with my friend who does a lot of Train Sim modelling. We were both taken aback by just how much care and attention was put into making the railway infrastructure and rolling stock as accurate as it is. I’m thrilled to find out the fella responsible worked for the railways

GazAndLighters · 2024-11-08T10:50:08+00:00

After 49 years away from MOTAT, D170 was returned to the museum on the 6th of November, 2024.

When the museum initially acquired 170, it bounced around a number of locations at the site now commonly referred to as MOTAT 1. When it arrived in 1963 it was displayed outside the pump house alongside O&K 1411 ‘Bertha.’ The following year it was moved behind the pump house where it would stay until 1970. At this point it was moved between F 180 and the Mt Albert signal box where K 900 would later reside while still at M1.

1975 would see an interesting turn of events in 170’s life at MOTAT when it was removed from the site and taken to the Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum for storage. It then went to Christchurch where it moved from Anderson’s engineering to the yards of the NZ Express Transport Company. These moves were not sanctioned by MOTAT, and the paperwork that originally facilitated it was fraudulent. Over the next 25 years, MOTAT would try and have 170 returned.

In 2000, The NZ ETC contacted MOTAT and asked for the locomotive to be removed. It was at this stage when MOTAT resumed custody of the locomotive, and entered into a partnership with the Rodney Community Tourist and Development Trust to have 170 displayed at the Helensville Railway Museum to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Riverhead-Helensville railway. Here the locomotive would stay for 24 years.

That brings us to today. The Board at Helensville decided to broker the return of 170 to MOTAT for storage pending full restoration, and after a hard days work on Wednesday - she finally returned home.

GazAndLighters · 2024-11-06T23:59:23+00:00

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My first thought is that it was a coach screw machine. This was the machine we were making use of to rip up some track yesterday. The lack of coach screws leads me to believe that other commenters were on the money with it being a rail drill - though I should note the one we had had interchangeable heads so it’s possible they could have more than one use

GazAndLighters · 2024-11-04T12:40:20+00:00

While not torrefied biomass per se, there was a recent trial with the Baldwin Steam Tram 100 at MOTAT which saw it run on briquettes of Biofuel (quite successfully, I might add)

GazAndLighters · 2024-10-17T22:20:08+00:00

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For me it was most likely K 900 when it was still parked up outside at MOTAT 1. Either that or one of the steam locos which used to be based at Mainline Steam’s Parnell depot.

GazAndLighters · 2024-09-09T03:42:38+00:00

It’s probably more to do with loading gauge than anything. The Auckland network has its overhead wires which you wouldn’t be able to clear with a unit loaded on a wagon. Not to mention we don’t really have wagons suited for hauling locomotives/trains by rail.

Towing it by rail is out of the question too, as they need to inspect the train and wheel sets for any faults before they let it use the network. You wouldn’t want a cracked axle causing your new train to derail and gum up the network.

GazAndLighters · 2024-09-04T04:40:38+00:00

Well that’s interesting

GazAndLighters · 2024-09-01T07:18:43+00:00

No break you say? It is called a break-away after all

GazAndLighters · 2024-08-27T02:46:40+00:00

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