Round Robin boxcar

I assume it's on its way to me?    Not got here yet, but it probably went on vacation over 4th July!

As soon as 'she' arrives, I'll report back.

If anybody else in the USA wants it before it goes international they had better PM me an Address to send it too!!! Don't worry Garrett I havn't forgotten you!!!!!!!!!

The boxcar arrived here in Shalimar, Northwest Florida this afternoon.

Photos this weekend.  First it's got to go and relax on the beach for a while (avoiding in the oil, which we are being spared this week at least) and get a tan.

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Yaaaay!! It didn't and up lost forever! I was really beginning to worry and feel bad.

G' Day minimans

I shall be in Spain in Sept,  NY in Dec and Oz ( ACT & Victoria evan) in Feb if that is of any help?
 Between trips I shall evan be in West Sussex (Chichester, the resting place of the world first passenger railway fatality, an MP) 
so if any dates fit, be glad to help.

The box van arrived here in beautiful Northwest Florida (nothing like Miami or Orlando - Kingdom of the Rat!) lat week and rested by spending a couple of days on the pure sugar white beaches of the Emerald Coast.  Then got into some serious operation on the South Buckinghamshire Light Railway.

Luckily the new bridge over the Tortoise River (trying to work out a name for this as the river is used by our local Gulf Coast Box Turtle - Terrapene Carolina Major)  so the branch is now open allowing the van to pose on the new bridge.
 
Lyn and the branch goods from Gerrards Cross to Datchet wait while Number 21 brings the Saturday afternoon passenger service into Farnham Common from Beaconsfield.
 
Much moo-ing from the cattle waggon









Sunday morning and the box van does duty on a Beaconsfield to Farnham Common mixed.





Sunday afternoon - the box van waits in a goods from Gerrards Cross to Datchet via Farnham Common and Burnham Beeches.

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A few more before the box van is packed off to Garratt in Tennessee on Tuesday.

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Having grown up in Windsor in the 1950s, don't I just wish there had been a narrow gauge railway connecting Datchet and Beaconsfield, instead of the number 441 bus!

It wouldn't have been as fast as the 441 and the girls from St Bernard's and the LVS wouldn't have been on the train!

The South Buckinghamshire Light Railway runs from Datchet (connection with the Southern - previously LSWR), up through Eton, Dorney, Cippenham, Burnham (connection with the GWR), East Burnham, to Farnham Common. From there one line runs up through Hedgerley to Gerrards Cross, and another via Littleworth Common to Beaconsfield.   When built there was no railway Beaconsfield to Gerrards Cross - the Great Central came later, so a connection was laid between the two branches making a convenient loop.

Owned independently, but with some stock and locos contracted to, and running rights given to the GW and Southern.

Now, what was that about needing to get out more?

The box van will be on its way courtesy of the USPS on Tuesday to Tennessee.

Box vans are supposed to carry goods, so inside this one is a small container of white sand from Okaloosa Island on the Emerald Coast of Northwest Florida.

Perhaps folks could put a little something from their area in the van - no contraband of course!

Martino


The box van will be on its way courtesy of the USPS on Tuesday to Tennessee.

Box vans are supposed to carry goods, so inside this one is a small container of white sand from Okaloosa Island on the Emerald Coast of Northwest Florida.

Perhaps folks could put a little something from their area in the van - no contraband of course!

Yeah!!! (Oh wait, weeds to pull and track to clean....and I picked THIS month to rebuild the front of the house!!!)
 
Hmm, what from Tennessee (that is not contraband) that could be put in it.
 

I guess there's always a Goo Goo Cluster!

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Martino


The box van will be on its way courtesy of the USPS on Tuesday to Tennessee.

Box vans are supposed to carry goods, so inside this one is a small container of white sand from Okaloosa Island on the Emerald Coast of Northwest Florida.

Perhaps folks could put a little something from their area in the van - no contraband of course!

Yeah!!! (Oh wait, weeds to pull and track to clean....and I picked THIS month to rebuild the front of the house!!!)
 
Hmm, what from Tennessee (that is not contraband) that could be put in it.
 

 
Well if it's comming back to me................................................
 

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What a cool idea.  I sent a PM with address

minimans

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Martino


The box van will be on its way courtesy of the USPS on Tuesday to Tennessee.

Box vans are supposed to carry goods, so inside this one is a small container of white sand from Okaloosa Island on the Emerald Coast of Northwest Florida.

Perhaps folks could put a little something from their area in the van - no contraband of course!

Yeah!!! (Oh wait, weeds to pull and track to clean....and I picked THIS month to rebuild the front of the house!!!)
 
Hmm, what from Tennessee (that is not contraband) that could be put in it.
 

 
Well if it's comming back to me................................................
 

Hmm, or take it a couple miles north for some Makers Mark out of Kentucky?  I have been working a lot in Chattanooga, so instead of a GooGoo cluster how about a Little Debbie or a Moon Pie?
 
Soeaking of, I may have arranged a "side" trip for the car, I figured it should do some sightseeing while here in the US.  Working on the logistics as we speak....stay tuned!!!

Shawn


What a cool idea.  I sent a PM with address

Lemme guess, it is going back east when done here eh? 

For sale one box car only 1,000,000 miles!!!!!! Anybody else after Shawn???????? otherwise it's off for it's first international journey..................Canada..........Don't worry Bob it's going to get there eventually!!

Well as long as it gets here before the snow drifts do , late Nov, and if not I will do what everyone  else does ,I will blame it on Fred.

In all the construction debris in the front of the house today was a box from Owen.

Now to wait for the weather to break!

Weather to break? it's 78f and a glorious day her.........................................