009 Rabbit layout Free to Good home

[gtmspyder]

I have a 009 Rabbit layout that I made for my four year old at the time, Grandson.

Can I post details here?

Kind regards,  Brian twigg.

[Tod Sloan]

What size is it please? And how heavy?

Tod

[gtmspyder]

Hello Tod, here are the details you require.

009 Rabbit layout for sale.

Size 4ft x 2ft (1220 x 600mm)

Fully sceniced with two stations, a canal and operating lock gates.

Operating colour light signals.

Five electrified points.

Storage space for three 009 trains in series .

It requires some work doing on the electrics and scenery to bring it back to exhibition standards.

The layout is portable and can easily be carried by two people and cam be moved easily by one person.

It was built for my four year old at the time Grandson.

I have now moved on to 7mm Narrow gauge as my memory and dexterity are not upto being able to do the required work.

£50.00, buyer to collect

[Tod Sloan]

Thanks for your reply with loads of interesting detail and just what I'm looking for....BUT, I live in Hampshire, near Portsmouth. I gather you are considerably north of me and with the current travel restrictions, I will have to very reluctantly pass. I'm sure you will soon find it a new owner, who no doubt, will bring it up to spec. I wish you both well anyway.

Regards, stay well and safe,

Tod

[gtmspyder]

Hello again Tod, thank you for your quick reply, like you say, it would be a long walk with it tucked under your arm ;)

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[clayliner]

Hi, Brian -

A photo or two might be helpful, if you can do that.

David.

[Hobby]

Graeme linked to this one on NGRM which I think is the one Brian's selling if he could confirm?

[gtmspyder]

Thank you Hobby, You're a Gentleman, and there aren't many of us left ;).  (I would normally use your given name rather than your user name, I think you are Blair? but I can't remember, and i apologies if I've guessed wrong)Brian.

As I've tried to explain, my memory is so bad now, that I have forgotten how to do that, I know it sounds daft, but that's my state now I'm afraid.

I used to use Picasa for all my photographic needs, and lord knows how many pictures I have posted on here, resized as you have to, but i just cannot remember how?  ,and that programe seems to have disappeared.

I am using a Microsoft programme now, but compared to Picasa its rubbish.  You don't get any folders that I can title and number, it just uploads them one after another in the  sequence that I take them, or so it seems to me.

Is there any other similar programme available that i might down load? or get one of my children to do it for me?

Any way, thanks for your help.

Kindest regards,

BrianT.

[MickT]

Hello Brian,

Good to see you back after quite a while, but sorry to read about your ongoing problems. In response to your query about posting photos, you are correct in figuring out that Picasaweb has "disappeared". It created quite a "wave of discontent" a couple of years or so ago and many people lost their images as well as those that had been posted on various forums were either removed or remained but with a large "picasaweb" watermark printed over them, thus ruining them.

The solutions that regular users have found has been either to set up their own websites and use these as hosting sites, which I would imagine for yourself is not an option you would want to take up, or the popular approach has been to use free online photo hosting facilities such as Flickr or Imgur.

From my own experience I personally prefer Imgur, which is very easy to install and once installed is extremely easy and straightforward to use if you simply want to use it to upload your photos (which has a facility for resizing them to an acceptable small size suitable for online use automatically for you), then it is literally about 3 clicks of the mouse to put your selected photo into forums such as this one or NGRM etc.

You will probably need some assistance as you mentioned, in order to get going, but I can assure you as a totally out of date and numpty IT user that it is really very straightforward and simple to use for the purpose you want it for.

Hope this helps, I'm sure others will come along with their own preferences, but am equally confident that whether you are advised to go for Flickr or Imgur, those are the two "main" hosting sites of choice for the majority of people.

Mick

[gtmspyder]

Hello Mick, lovely to hear from you, it seems along time ago when I was posting the story of Glen Ogle.

I've now moved on to 7mm 0/16.5 and have a new layout called  "Knottworthy Magna"  this is basically a copy of Ted Pollets lovely "Nixnie", but obviously twice the size, and with my own twist on it, but in all respects a diagonally centraly divided roundy roundy layout, with a fiddle yard offshoot at one end.

I have always acknowledged the authorship of the designer as Ted, and the layouts I called Knottworthy as I don't consider my modelling to be up to Ted's abilities.

But it has been on the exhibition circuit, and is now in the middle of an upgrade when I find my roundruit gismo, as I have health problems and failing memory which is heavily affecting my modeling abilities such as they are.

The loss of Picassa has greastly affected my ability to tell a story, so I thank you for your suggestions and I think I'll give Imgur a try,  I have a load of pictures,
and want tell to tell a story to be published in a Covid inspired newsletter produced by the Western 009 group which I have just been invited to join, and I need the facility I enjoyed with Picassa.

The Yorkshire group has had a little competion between ourselves, which coincided with the start of the Pandemic so its never been judged, and I thought that it would make a nice little story to go along with my joining the group.

So thank you Mick for the heads up.

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[MickT]

So thank you Mick for the heads up.
BrianT.

No problem at all Brian, glad to have been of some assistance.

You mentioned the "Western 009 Group" - I'm not familiar with that one, unless you mean the North Western Group, aka primarily the guys from Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, along with a few "refugees" such as maybe yourself who from further provinces.

Mick

[gtmspyder]

That's the one Mick, the North Western Group.

have just posted off the little article, to see if the editor of the news-letter likes it.

Kind regards,

Brian.

[gtmspyder]

The 009 layout is now SOLD

Brian.