Layout in my Garage

[steamerdave]

sounds like you need a MAN CAVE!

A Man Cave, nice name, thats what I have, Its got trains, tv, kettle and heater, when the outlaws decide to visit its time to hide out there for the peace and quiet!!!!!!!

[Greybeema]

Steamerdave,

You need a fridge for the beer......  I am defo gonna have a fridge in my Man Cave....

[scotsoft]

Well you know how you start something and time just flies away?

This is what you need for those times, I was sent a couple from my cousin in Australia and they are really good 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOTOGP-NEOPRENE-CAN-COOLER-TWO-PACK-BIKEIT-BIKE-MOTORCYCLE-/370568517158?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item56479ad626

cheers John.

[Greybeema]

Scotsoft,

Stubby holders - Have a couple both Neoprene and Polystyrene lined...  Really great invention... 

Having said that there is not often a problem with keeping your beer cpold in Dublin....   

[Bealman]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but seeing as my layout is in the garage, I thought I'd post it here. I posted a photo I took of a poster in my garage showing the Flying Scotsman in apple green livery hauling BR blue & grey coaches in the NGF raffle thread, in relation to the LNER B1 I was lucky enough to win. I just thought folk may be interested in a couple of others I have up there (also old and faded due to the harsh Aussie sun shining through the garage door, which is usually open when I'm working on the layout).

The first is a print of a painting by M.A. Turner which apparently was included with a copy of 'Rail Enthusiast' magazine. It is entitled "All change at Crewe, 1961" featuring green diesel D214, electric locomotive E3001 and Duchess 46248. How wonderfully atmospheric and indicative of the change that was occurring at that point in BR history! Just the era I am trying to portray! Faded as it may be, I love it!
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I also have another faded print entitled "Pause at Rugby: Princess Beatrice about to depart" by Jim Petrie which is also brilliantly atmospheric, showing the 4-6-2 in LMS livery. Will take a pic when the leftovers of the Queensland cyclone stop raining on us here in the south!

Finally, I have this stuck on the wall also, which shows what I believe to be a very dirty unknown 'Standard' (or 8F) of some description hauling minerals through a VERY narrow gorge, which to my (long time ago) geology trained eye looks to be limestone. Any ideas as to location, anyone?
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Hope this isn't hijacking the thread too much, George.

[Bealman]

Oh, and plenty of stubby holders in my garage, by the way.