{"id":6206,"date":"2015-05-15T21:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2015-05-15T21:55:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T20:55:05","slug":"railway-modelling-in-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railway-modelling-in-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway modelling in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, really!<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Picciotto built a HO (1:87) scale model railway module inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-to-mazar-i-sharif\/\">Uzbekistan &#8211; Hairatan &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif line<\/a> <em>while in Kandahar<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Read all about it in his article <a href=\"http:\/\/model-railroad-hobbyist.com\/\/magazine\/mrh-2015-05-may\/free-mo-foreign-land\">Free-mo in a foreign land<\/a> in the May 2015 issue of the free digital magazine Model Railroad Hobbyist. The article describes the challenges of building a model railway 7000 miles from his home in the USA; although it notes &#8220;rocks and gravel were all locally harvested from the ground outside my tent&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http:\/\/model-railroad-hobbyist.com\/\/magazine\/mrh-2015-05-may\/free-mo-foreign-land\">Free-mo in a foreign land | Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine | Having fun with model trains | Instant access to model railway resources without barriers<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There is also a Facebook group focused on modeling 5 foot gauge railways as well as armour and aircraft from the former USSR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russianmodelerscollective.com\">Russian Modelers Collective<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, really! Matthew Picciotto built a HO (1:87) scale model railway module inspired by the Uzbekistan &#8211; Hairatan &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif line while in Kandahar. Read all about it in his article Free-mo in a foreign land in the May 2015 issue of the free digital magazine Model Railroad Hobbyist. The article describes the challenges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[92,276],"class_list":["post-6206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-models","tag-kandahar","tag-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6210,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions\/6210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}