WW1 narrow gauge

engerth399 · February 02, 2021, 07:49

Hope this will be of interest to some of our members.

https://youtu.be/aWla__n-_sA

B.Meldon · February 02, 2021, 10:35

Quote from: engerth399 on February 02, 2021, 07:49
Hope this will be of interest to some of our members.

https://youtu.be/aWla__n-_sA

This has been on youtube for over 7 years now.
So not exactly something new!

Hugh Norwood · February 02, 2021, 11:18

That's not an issue, really, Brian.

Do we have a thread on this forum for folk to list links to videos of interest? Is it something that should be considered perhaps?

B.Meldon · February 02, 2021, 12:34

Yes, sorry about that.
It is just that this video has been postsed a great many times on many of the various narrow gauge and modeling groups over the past few years.
But I guess there may be some on this group that have not seen it before.

paul ludlow · February 02, 2021, 23:01

Hi, that piece of cinematic joy may have been around for years, but it has successfully evaded my attention all this time. Thank you for sharing. Please don't hesitate to suggest more gems, when you find them.😊

Tom Haythornthwaite · February 03, 2021, 16:22

So in the video we see them hand-laying track and using settrack, but they didn't use flex?

I'll get my coat...

WALLSHIRTS · February 04, 2021, 15:37

Great to see this again, thanks for the link.
Mal.

clayliner · February 08, 2021, 15:49

Excellent footage - thanks. It could all look like a jolly jape without knowing the context - you do wonder how many of them made it home to Blighty. Not many safe working practices in evidence, but I guess they weren't big on H&S at the front, either. I wonder why they changed trains towards the end?

David.

B.Meldon · February 08, 2021, 16:07

Quote from: clayliner on February 08, 2021, 15:49

Excellent footage - thanks. It could all look like a jolly jape without knowing the context - you do wonder how many of them made it home to Blighty. Not many safe working practices in evidence, but I guess they weren't big on H&S at the front, either. I wonder why they changed trains towards the end?

David.

Perhaps none in this film 'made it home to Blighty' as it looks like US army locos and rolling stock to me. However I do not know about the uniforms, so there may be some British in the film?

Brian Meldon

Stephen Rainsbury · February 09, 2021, 23:37

Quote from: Tom Haythornthwaite on February 03, 2021, 16:22
So in the video we see them hand-laying track and using settrack, but they didn't use flex?

I'll get my coat...

At least they didn't have the perpetual "Live Frog/Insul frog" quandary :-)