The Woodlock Line

duncan1_9_8_4 said:
Sometimes I think they're clever, and then they do silly things like that.
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Well, sometimes it's because they fall asleep in the sun. But for ginger cats, white cats and black and white cats with white tips to their ears, too much sun (maybe too strong doses of sun) can lead to cancer of the ear, not in the ear but on the sticking up bit of the ear. One of my secretaries had two cats both with white ears and both had had to have bits of their ear amputated because of cancer. Fortunately, the amount removed didn't have to be large and the vet did a bit of "sculpting" to make the loss less obvious and both lived to good ages (despite still liking to sleep in the sun!)
 
Tempted by the T3 railcar, sort of luckily for me, when I was over there in 94 & 95, didn't see any of the railcars, so can't get excited about them, mind you if someone put batteries in one and brought it over the Pennines...... :mm:
 
Fezwig said:
Tempted by the T3 railcar, sort of luckily for me, when I was over there in 94 & 95, didn't see any of the railcars, so can't get excited about them, mind you if someone put batteries in one and brought it over the Pennines...... :mm:
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They're lovely. But very long. Lots of clearance work had to be done to make them fit.

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Jasper said:
How long are they?
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I searched the LGB site and unlike original cats no length is shown. But here is some interesting info on the beasts from that source.

DR Class VT 137 Powered Rail Car​

The Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railroad Company (NWE) ordered a four-axle diesel powered rail car in 1932 from the Wismar Powered Rail Car and Car Builder, Inc. to simplify and rationalize its passenger service. This unit had a 400 horsepower MAN diesel motor and was placed into service as road number T 1. The NWE was very satisfied with this unit and its maximum speed of up to 60 km/h / 37 mph thus resulted in two more powered rail cars of this type being bought. These units came starting in 1935 to the NWE route network as road numbers T2 and T3. They had a somewhat different superstructure. They had baggage areas instead of a passenger area and were equipped with a 520 horsepower motor to haul heavier loads. After the founding of the GDR in 1949, the NWE was confiscated and integrated in the newly established German State Railroad (DR). The motive power was reclassified in the numbering plan valid on the DR and it lost the original red paint scheme, since they were repainted in the paint scheme valid for diesel powered rail cars on the German State Railroad, in beige-red. Our LGB model reproduces the former NWE T3 that continued on the DR as VT 137 566. This powered rail car was used on the DR as a route maintenance vehicle as well as a freight hauling powered rail car.

DR class VT 137 566 diesel-powered rail car in Era III.
 
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