Thank you for starting a new thread George @Bealman .

I asked for my original one to be locked as it was getting out of hand and moving well away from my original intention.

Perhaps we can now just concentrate on football on here.

Well done Scotland and Australia by the way.
I watched the first half of Qatar v Switzerland which was less than inspiring shall we say.
 

Thought south Korea did well but shall hust wait to see if England perform

Not bard start scotland

Changing sport thought England did well good first start in the women's cricket world cup

Thanks! Yeah, just watched the Aussie game. Our goalkeeper is awesome!

Scotland off to a start,too.

Of course I'll be watching England too!  

Agreed,there are plenty of threads here that are of no interest to me so I just ignore them and I've never felt the need to tell everyone why or make sarcastic posts.
Anyhow, as I typed his your lot have just scored a second so looking good for you.
Possibly more surprising is Scotland find themselves top of their group.
I await to see which England turn up!

I think it's rather sad that this thread has been locked (albeit by the OP).

It's sport, for Heaven's sake. We've had discussions here about the World Cup since the forum started!

If you're not interested, don't look at the thread!

Simple,

Now I'll return to watching Australia vs Turkey (and I spelt that wrong, too).

Football fans please feel free to use this thread.

2nd Round.

We've established who I am, where I'm stationed, and my role. Now I'll be showing random pics of fire station life, fireground photos, training, physical fitness, etc...

Feel free to ask any questions.

Sometimes weird things happen.  That car somehow jumped a curb, flipped, and cartwheeled; coming to rest against the house without damaging the house.



The 2021 Great Texas Freeze or Snowmageddon: at this point we fought fire in the coldest recorded conditions  - 0 degrees. Later that night our short-lived record was broken when another fire was fought below zero.

This crazy cold snap caused a cascade of systems to collapse. Most of my city was without power and water for days. People froze to death. Our station had a generator so other stations and some old retirees came and slept on cots and recliners for a few days.




Holidays at the station.




Foreigner came to town!!  It happened to be the singer's birthday.

I laid out a loop of Kato track and slid in one full length of 2% riser foam.

It's finally time to test every loco headed for Black Douglas Vale on the 2% grade I propose. I put a rake of 10 American N Scale wagons behind as a test.

Graham Farish BR Blue Class 40 Sound:

Passed with ease. The Kato powerpack is weak so it only crawled due to the sound demands.

Graham Farish Class 37 Dutch Livery

With ease. My best UK runner. 

Dapol Class 22 BR Blue


This little tank also passed with ease.

Graham Farish LMS 10001BR Black Sound

Because of the sound demands it crept along, but never faltered.

Graham Farish Deltic DP1


This beauty has always been steady. Easy hauling.

Graham Farish Class 20/0 London Transport Maroon Lined

She stalled about half way up with 10 wagons. No problemo. She'll be doing branch line work so I'm still pleased. I'm sure 8-10 British milk wagons will tag along nicely.

I haven't attempted surgery on my dead-in-the-water Union Mills, but if she runs she'll have zero struggle.  I've seen her with more wagons conquer my stupid 4% grade.


I have two steam locos in transit from TMC so I'm a bit more optimistic.  Even if they're reduced to 3,4,5 coaches or 4,5,6 wagons, it'll work on my proposed layout.

 

Thread locked at the request of the OP

if politics is banned on here--lets make phut ball banned also. Boring waste of time.

After the tyre fiasco detailed in the Unhappy Thread

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=659.msg884696#msg884696

I did a bit of research. I called the two tyre shops that had replaced tyres for me.

The first one looked at their records and said that they had fitted an all weather tyre.

At the second one they printed out the receipt for me and it showed that back in January they had fitted a summer tyre to my car. They accepted full responsibility and a new all weather tyre has been ordered.   

The other good part is that I'd only been driving on the wrong tyre for 4.5 months rather than since last September.

Regards,

John P