I'm having one of my 'OO interludes', so work on the layout is temporarily on hold. The main job at the moment is to get the new chassis for 82044 (in OO) finished. I started this a couple of years ago, and have modified a Comet 76XXX chassis kit to fit the 2-6-2 tank. The reason for this is due to the original Bachmann chassis refusing all attempts to get it to run smoothly.

The process of building the new chassis has not been without it's frustrations, requiring a complete strip down once I'd got the valve gear 60% complete, in order to establish the precise cause of hesitant running (that hadn't been there earlier when building the valve gear).

Anyway, here is the chassis having a good few hours running in on the circle of Lima set-track:

In the meantime, a new heavy freight tank loco has also arrived...

7229 of Ebbw Jct shed arrives at Callow Lane with a heavy mineral train, bound for the marshalling yard at Westerleigh and onward transit:

This one seems to be quite intact when removed from the box, although one of the tension lock couplings was loose, not something I'm worried about. It runs nice and smoothly straight out of the box as well.