Work halted on Mattington for a short while as I wanted to do some touching up on the Junk Yard boxfile layout mainly planting a few bits of vegetation, scattering some more grit and scenic powder and hunting in the bits box for a small door for the shed - (found one eventually! no scratch building required yay ! )Older photos of this layout are located in the gallery.

Why build a boxfile layout - Simple - for a laugh! and somewhere to run 009 stock on a portable layout (possibly even at work as it is disguised as an office item)

Still need to do some more painting on the brick building at the back and paint the sides a green colour and add some more vegetation or rock wall.

Major problem with this layout at the moment is motive power. I have a small German 0-4-0 that has a broken drive cog and the Hunslet 0-4-0 appears to have a burnt out motor at least it got slower and slower when I was testing it last year and it smells of burnt engine. Wish I could replace it but farish are not making the power bogie anymore.

Doesn't seem to be an awful lot on the market at the moment for 009 small locos - even the FR's Penrhyn engines won't fit the loading gauge. I need something small like an 0-4-0 so Roco or Backwoods are looking likely candidates. If anyone knows of an engine or an 009 repair company comments are welcome