Decypering the Cyphers

"On the newly exposed face of the pyramid, a series of sixteen characters was pricisely engraved into the smooth stone":

Illustrations from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

"'The engrsving is indeed the Masonic cipher. However, the cleartext is meaningless..' 'It must say something.'"

"'It's a grid-based matrix, so I can run the usual - Vigenere, grilles, trellisers and so forth'".'".

Illustrations from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

"Although there are a few unsolved cyphers: Phaisto Disk, Dorabella Cypher, the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, this cypher might be broken yet."

Text is from the Lost Symbol, Dan Brown.

Puerto Borracho, an On30 Railway

When visting this page, please say hello to the thick hombres. This railway is in On30 narrow gauge, that is a O gauge railway that runs on HO gauge or 1/87 track. The scenery is of Mexico and is fabulous, as are the loco's and train cars.

Puerto Borracho Railway Open House

There are also some shorter videos featuring other scenes of this model railroad.

More Superstructure for the Four Min-Flat Cars

This is the second superstructure for the "four flat cars" (See above) I have completed and the third storage tank I created for this project. I had orignaly created a "metal" constructed storage tank which if you remember, I forgot that the outside dinensions the plastic sheet would increase the overall dimensioins of the tank.Taking the width of the plastic sheet into account I created a second tank. (below)

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After seeing someone create an wood storage tank on Pinterest I created my own wooden storage tank. I can use the former on another flat car.

A water tank or whatever?

My Collection of Model Railways Storage Tanks

Do You Remeber These?

I found the data sheet for these miniature Bottles and Jars. They are available from Scale Structures.

When searching for this page I came across a mention of Bottles and Jars so I am going to create a "Bottles and Jars" label.

In Search of the Mystical

Screenshot from Poldark, a PBS series.

"I penned

It down, until at last it came to be,
For length and breadth, the bigness which you see."

Manly P. Hall

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The Research

• Hermetic
• Rosicrucian
• Kabbaliste
• Alumbradian
• Alumbrados

Data from Dan Browns The Lost Symbol

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Seven hermetic principles

Ancient Hermetic Adage: As above, so below

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Added two contextual links above on 11/08/25 at 1735.

Narrow Gauge Around the World, Part 4

Lst us visit the narrow gauge railways in Java, China and Eritrea with Peter Crook.

Narrow Guage Around the World, Part 3

This is the third in Peter Crook's series, Narrow Guage Around the World. In this episode: Narrow Gauge Railways in Germany, Poland and Romania.

Narrow Gauge Around the World Part 2

This the second in Peter Crook's Narrow Gauge Around the World series: "Indian narrow gauge railways, The Nepal railway, Tipong Colliery, Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, Riga Sugar Mill."

Narrow Gauge Around the World Part 1

"South Africa (Some preserved steam and SAR) and Australia (Queensland Rail). Part 1 of a series of 7 on narrow gauge railways around the world.", by Peter Crook

Another Storage Tank

This storage tank one will replace the last storage tank I built and this one will fit niecly on the flatcare. This storage tank measures 18w by 28mm H. This one like the last one is built from the contents of a scrap box. With the exception of the weathering all is complete with this unit.

If my maths are correct this tank would hold a scale 880 gallons of liquid. Now that that I have started working on a wood storage tank, this "metal" tank might be replaced.

All I have yet is the gondola sides for the last superstructure.

A Quick Repair

I took a short break from my storage tank builds and have a Lynton & Barnstaple Railway boxcar from Nine Lines for a quick repair. There was a small gap on the body that needed bending where I use a bit of baking soda and a cyanoacrylate . Next step to give the body and roof a good base coat.,.

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Blade Runner — Deleted and Alternate Scenes

I recently received a two dvd Blade Runner set. I have watched both on several occasions and had to add these two classics to my collection. Blade Runner number 1 was, at the time, one of my favorite movies. Imagine a whole new world in the future with people, vehicles, and structures. Blade Runner reminds me of the Sprawl series by William Gibson, namely Mona Lisa Overdrive, Neromancer, and Count Zero.

My Dimensions Were Way off

I built this for a flat car and although it fits it does overhand just a bit over the sides, so I am not going to use it and have built another storage tank with smaller dimensions.

The tank is built from plastic, scraps from my scrap box. It measures 20w by 30mm high. I will make use of the tank somewhere on my layout.

Egger - Bahn Mini HOn30 Train Cars

A few decades ago Egger-Bahn were manfacturing a line of products in HOn30 gauge including these charming little train cars. It is ashame these models are no longer available. However there are two places where tiny train cars can still be found. One is Minitrains which sells miniature railroad freight cars. The other is JTs Trains and Stuff. They sell parts for a few small cars. This a a flat car. The small cars, usually at 6 foot, come in packs of two. You will need to provide the wheels and couplers.