RichardT

Bachmann don’t just make things in 00, and as always the plural of anecdote isn’t data. 😉 RichardT

Looking good. Plausible deniability: the pseudo-GWR livery unit has obviously been transferred to Stratford depot to cover an urgent motive power shortage so they’ve not had time to repaint it yet. As for the bridge at the LH end of the layout, if it’s running between two warehouses why not make it a pipe bridge/covered conveyor rather than a foot/road bridge. Can be a bit more complex (to distract the viewer), and perhaps a bit lower, closer to track level (having been installed after the line was truncated) so as to mask the blank end of the cameo? But great anyway. RichardT

Lots to debate about this, but I just want to point out that the one thing oil-firing steam locos *isn’t* is inauthentic, both here and in the USA. RichardT

Packed with modelling inspiration! £10 incl postage to UK address. Less for collection/handover in person: I can do Darlington, Durham localities or York city centre. PM me if interested. Richard Softcover, ISBN 9780901115430 Publisher: R.C.T.S., 1978 Detailed history of the Brampton Town branch and the colliery railways around Brampton, east of Carlisle, via Hallbankgate to Lambley on the Alston branch which originated from early tramroads and were finally operated by the NCB. 127pp, photos, drawings, maps etc. Very good condition - no fading.

https://www.trains.com/mrr/news-reviews/news/in-memoriam-kirk-reddie/ Perhaps not so well-known in the UK, but his N Scale Railroading magazine was a very useful source of tips and inspiration, and he was a talented modeller (should probably say “modeler”) in his own right. Thought he should be remembered here as RMWeb is fast becoming the model railway journal of record. RichardT

“FTFY”, as I believe the young shavers say nowadays 😉 RichardT

Beat me to it - I was going to say A Stringency of Auterities.

Congratulations to an excellent model shop. Always a port of call when I’m in Edinburgh. And now I finally know where the name “Harburn” comes from - saves me fruitlessly poring over Edinburgh maps looking for a local small stream called the Har Burn… RichardT

Hi Pilotman You don’t need to restrict your potential buyers in this way. The restriction on selling NGS kits only to NGS members only applies to sales by the NGS: it allows the society more favourable tax treatment from HMRC because they are trading with members only, not the public. These kits are now your property: you can sell them as secondhand goods to whoever you like. You never know - the person who buys them may become inspired to join the NGS to get access to the other kits! Good luck with the sale. (Not my period I’m afraid 🥲) Cheers, RichardT (NGS member)

Oh bless. The whole point was that the factory management - well, the shop floor supervisory grades at the very least - were in on the fiddle. RichardT

Oh yes, and there’s absolutely no doubt that these are illegal products (or in breach of contract.). My point about the use of “counterfeit”, as meaning “a physical fake” was a more philosophical one. RichardT

Tried to reply to the other topic but it’s been deleted. On the thin evidence available this sounds like a revival of the old “third-shift counterfeiting” trick: the contract manufacturer runs the two main shifts for the benefit of their Western client, and then runs a shadow third shift producing the same items for “local” benefit. To what degree these third-shift items are “counterfeit” is a nice semantic question, depending on whether the third shift uses the same quality of materials and assembly techniques as the two other legit shifts, but they won’t be covered by any manufacturer’s (or should I say commissioner’s) warranty. It’s the risk you run contracting out your manufacturing to plants where you can’t supervise them on the ground. But hey, we wanted cheap stuff. RichardT

It’s a brand new item, announced to members in the last Newsletter, so possibly hasn’t made it into the online shop yet. (Planning to pick up a copy at the NERA AGM on the 13th!) Richard

You must speak as you find but I thought there were lots of traders selling rtr items, both new & second-hand, including some attractive show discounts from Locomotion Models, and the excellent local trader Monk Bar Model Shop. If what you mean was “no box shifters offering stuff at mega discounts” then yes, you’re correct. But they’re available all the time on the internet. Whereas it can be very useful to see the small specialist suppliers’ items in the flesh, and chat to the owners about their products and plans. And ditto the various scale societies and railway historical groups. That’s the value of shows like York. But YMMV as our US cousins say. Richard

I believe that this was the sense intended - if only because when I attended yesterday I noted a very large number of specialist traders. (But then again, I also noted a lot of stands selling core rtr stock in all scales, so I think all bases were covered.) An excellent day out all round. I do enjoy seeing a variety of scales and both UK & non-UK prototypes modelled, rather than the over-domination of “BR transition-era”. Seeing Grantham working a full sequence in grand LNER 1930’s style was worth the price of admission alone. So many excellent layouts it’s invidious to name all my favourites. But especial thanks to @queensquare for patiently staying around answering my questions about Iain Rice’s models, even though Mick Simpson had just taken over from him on Trerice specifically so Jerry could go off and see the rest of the show. It was a joy to see “Hercules”, “Pioneer” and the rest in reality, evoking cover photos of “Model Railways” past. Nick Freezer joining the conversation was incredibly serendipitous! Well done @John of York61 and the team. Sorry not to catch you, but I suspect that you were busy… Richard