{"id":5721,"date":"2024-01-22T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=2a7ba9bce27c427134b8df3a269f2877"},"modified":"2024-01-22T06:01:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T20:01:01","slug":"squeaky-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=5721","title":{"rendered":"Squeaky bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjazxZMzIzf_cHfg0mefJpOR3R7ObxfzeLIs1zH3assP33tzst49WYR3tMHX0jH8CU0FZTj8JWoPGVzJQEySzmPGGx3QxvNIIOeEtIwuVAgv9O_IGCOF0b0TL--Hc0FDUyUCKP2Z47rZepEpT6UXCWH-gczeBXew1HaWyqXxRewyJy8PksygEgOUhQfAyoe\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"3648\" data-original-width=\"5472\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjazxZMzIzf_cHfg0mefJpOR3R7ObxfzeLIs1zH3assP33tzst49WYR3tMHX0jH8CU0FZTj8JWoPGVzJQEySzmPGGx3QxvNIIOeEtIwuVAgv9O_IGCOF0b0TL--Hc0FDUyUCKP2Z47rZepEpT6UXCWH-gczeBXew1HaWyqXxRewyJy8PksygEgOUhQfAyoe=w408-h271\" width=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One of the boxes to tick on the Peco epic (I must&nbsp;settle on a name) was to make it generic and yet as un-generic as possible; and that it would use the brace of FR RTR that is now available. One of my pet peeves&nbsp;is the current crop of what are essentially&nbsp;narrow gauge GWR branch lines but running all the RTR small Welsh&nbsp;stock. If it was going to be an FR inspired layout, it had to look as though the loading gauge demanded the stock&#8217;s styling. This meant some drastic chopping and would definitely preclude all the &#8216;large Welsh&#8217; stock that will undoubtedly turn up, not to mention the Heljan L&amp;B locos. The longest stock would be the Peco FR Bowsiders; here some pre-production items from the hand that designed them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Some testing&nbsp; with a Bachmann Dolgoch which just scrapes under the loading gauge and the FR coaches. All looks well thus far. What will be required is some proper stock for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;One of the boxes to tick on the Peco epic (I must&nbsp;settle on a name) was to make it generic and yet as un-generic as possible; and that it would use the brace of FR RTR that is now available. One of my pet peeves&nbsp;is the current crop of w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276,1161,2277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2276","category-bridges","category-peco"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5722,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions\/5722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}