Does that mean 475 will become a Klingon "bird of prey"? Will Kelly be getting pointed ears?

I don't know any of the people refered to in these posts but the theme reminds me of so many incidents over the last 20 or so years in the UK. Three examples, all involving the same locomotive in the 1980's, should illustrate that this is a worldwide problem.

#1 - Wishing to continue reassembly during a major open day we had moved the partially complete locomotive to a building to which there was no public access. One member, at the time, had a large black alsatian which used to enjoy, amongst other things, chewing bricks and carrying around lengths of 2 x 2 wood which it would rap people round the legs with. Therefore the aforementioned mutt was tied to something substantial - to mutt this meant that whatever it was tied to was to be "guarded". Needless to say the great unwashed climbed over fences to see what we were working on - well they tried but "Lima" (yes that was muttley's name...) would wake up and start barking at the intruders and they ran away - we just laughed!

#2 - Locomotive in undercoat - question from great unwashed "what livery will it carry?" - response from dog owner "silver with red cab doors!" (London Underground livery at the time) - exit one very confused questioner while the painters are pi**ing themselves laughing........

#3 - Locomotive complete and running but regulator (throttle) proving stiff so myself and another on top, dome cover off, looking to see if anything was amiss with "Topshed" on the ground as "gofer". Now the late, lamented "Topshed" had a wonderful sense of humour which he inflicted on a gricer who appeared to announce, loudly, to his companion that the "lining out was in the wrong place". Needless to say this couldn't go unchallanged! "Topshed" informed the gricer that the lining was in the correct place as it had been measured when the loco was sanded down prior to painting and if he "did not go away quickly(I will grant that this not the actual phrase used...) he might find that the extra large spanner, currently in the hand of the man who applied the lining(my accomplice on top), might land on his skull........"

You just can't make them up.

G

No, because Birds of Prey never operated in revenue service with the high-mounted phaser port and "party hat" squadron emblem 475 currently carries...

Sorry, that reporting mark and number are already taken by the tool car to Pere Marquette 1225 in Owosso, MI! (actually NCCX 1701)

Steve Zuiderveen

The two of you have failed the "geek check."

A Bird of Prey is ROMULAN, not KLINGON.

My eyes are rolling in disgust, but thanks to Hume's dislike of smilies you can't see it.

JAC

John, that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Thank you!

OK, a serious question if Kelly and Linn and colleagues are still following this silliness. When Owen and I were admiring 31 after our trip I noted she had one sand dome forward of the steam dome, with the downpipe now routed between the first and second pairs of drivers. When I got home and looked at my old copy of the Road to Paradise, I noticed that she came to SRR with two, the other squeezed in between the steam dome and the cab, and indeed ran that way on SRR for many years.

So at the risk of sounding like a Bleepin' foamer--when did she lose the second dome, and why? One less thing to maintain? Better aesthetics? Kelly mislaid it out back during her last rebuild?

And while I'm discrediting myself publically, can someone tell the story behind the short-wheelbase tender? It's cute as a button, but I wonder what the back-story might be.

John, I beg your pardon. Romulan ships are "Warbirds". The "bird of prey" is the smaller class of Klingon ship. (what's the Klingon word for "daisypicker"?)

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BLASPHEMY!! BLASPHEMY, I SAY!!


We do not adhere to that "Next Generation" heresy. We are keepers of the true Star Trek.

An exegesis of Season One, Episode Nine, Scene Three will clearly show that the Romulan ship was not a "warbird," but a Bird of Prey. The perversion of the truth that you try to foist on the RyPN faithful was a later corruption, as exposed by the holy brethren of the Monastery of Ex Astris Scientia:

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/bop-size.htm




Repent your heresy, brother, and beg forgiveness.

JAC (where's a smily face wink when you need one?)

uhm......do we need to start another thread here?

Star Trek - The Road To Parageekdom?

" Sit back relax and enjoy the sights and sounds of the Next Generation. See the Klingons working their feilds of the outer galaxies. Taste the homemade Romulan Fly Pies. Smell the scents of "....well....lets just not go there!

W A R N I N G

There are lots of other BBs for Star Trek. The RyPN Grinch is about to steal Christmas here and lock the topic for being Off Topic.

Ed

Maybe it didn't come come across as such or maybe it did, either way, that was my point with a little local tourist railroad humor thrown in.....We're way off topic on this thread.

WOOPS -- I edited the post rather than replying. Sorry about that!

I'm not going to go there. While it's sometimes interesting to go somewhat astray from the main focus of RyPN from time to time, "Star Trek" is way too far afield. Since RyPN has only a single forum, we need to keep the focus fairly tight.

Thanks,

Ed

Correction
It wasnt a complete Steam locomotive on TNG
sorry
Andrew