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The brown livery is Welsh Pony's restoration livery, it has carried it since it returned to steam in May 2020 (lined out from October) Palmerston currently carries the red livery which is a historic livery with variations on it probably throughout it's entire life from conversion to a saddle tank in 1888 through to withdrawal in 1937. Little Giant similarly carried variations on the red livery from conversion to something similar to the form it's modelling in from late 1888 through to withdrawal in 1924. Martin

The locomotive crew of the Talyllyn might regard the provisions for access alongside the loco provided by the Midland Railway as luxurious! Pre and early preservation photos of Dolgoch show what might seem to be an injector pipe emerging from the cab door, running alongside the bunker and then ducking down below the footplate. In fact this was nothing of the sort and was an iron bar bent and located to provide additional footing for someone needing to get out and forward from the cab!

I remember that Function Refresh was a big deal when the firmware was updated to include this years back! There's a good video here explaining what it does and how to check the status/turn it on

Once you've got sound active on multiple locos how are you selecting a different loco, are you keying in the address or cycling through the recall stack using the recall button to select an 'active' loco? IIRC selecting a loco by number it resets the status, selecting the loco from the recall stack retains the settings. My Powercab is tucked away somewhere at the moment so I can't check Martin

I wonder if it might be a variation on the Quarry Hunlset theme. Statfold is home to Michael, one of the Dinorwich 'Port' class, straight frames/full height buffer beam and higher pitched domed boiler. That would also open up the option of a late Dinorwic era mongrel Dolbadarn, same frames but fitted with an earlier lower pitch domeless boiler as per Alice, Martin

Interesting photos of the Snowdon Mountain Railway in the period when Nos 2 & 8 were converted to oil burning, the photo of No 2 clearly shows the oil tank mounted on the cab roof. Martin

I see that the Dukedog has gone home https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/2024/02/26/dukedog-no-9017-returning-home-to-aberystwyth/ This article suggests that the loan is for 2 years https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/2024/03/05/93-year-old-aberystwyth-man-reunited-with-his-locomotive/ Martin

Damage/distortion/cracking around the cabs - most unprototypical https://flic.kr/p/2iX6pgH

I think the OP is working in HO, hence the interference between the frames and the overscale wheeltreads

Interestingly a friend at Porthmadog back in October noticed on release day of the 2-4-0TT green versions of the large Hunslets that the codes on the box suggested that all the variants of the model had come off the production line at the same time and the later versions may have been sitting in the warehouse a long time waiting on the release date. Martin C

Perhaps they're delayed waiting on central door locking... 🤣

What a carp system! Any decently designed system will associate your account with a unique unchanging ID, everything else the system knows about you can change: name, address, email, if the system is designed properly you as the end user don't need to know that unique key. I look after a number of enterprise level systems and they all work this way, even our old creaking at the knees and soon to be replaced ERP uses this type of structure from over 25 years ago. That's why government web sites use NI/Social Security numbers as keys, unique values that follow you throughout your life. Martin (with the day job Enterprise Database Analyst hat on)

It looks like all the remaining locomotives were in traffic at some point in 1910 and they would all have been in red/maroon livery. Small Englands: Princess, Prince & Palmerston Large Englands: Welsh Pony & Little Giant Note that the forthcoming Kato models are undersized and have the Small England wheelbase and cab Single Fairlie: Taliesin Double Fairlies: James Spooner, Merddin Emrys & Livingston Thompson At this time Prince still had a simple arc smokebox handrail like Princess & Palmerston as modelled by Kato on Princess. The wrap round handrail was acquired in 1913 when the smokebox off Welsh Pony was used. Palmerston re-entered service in 1910 after an overhaul started in 1907. Note that Palmerston's cab is shorter than Princess & Prince, Kato's forthcoming model will be incorrect in this respect. Welsh Pony was taken out of service in 1910 and did not return until 1915. The James Spooner of this period is of course not the same as the recent new loco. By 1907 it had been rebuilt to be visually similar to Merddin Emrys & Livingston Thompson but was shorter and had bogies with a smaller wheelbase. Martin

There's a photograph on the FR's photo archive with details of the old Rhiw Plas bridge, unfortunately it cuts off the top of the bridge Rhiw Plas bridge from FR iBase photo archive Martin

Do you have a link or contact for the ST Models roof lamps? THanks, Martin