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AlfaZagato

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  1. Sorry to hear you cutting back. Will you be mentioning here if or when you decide to let things go?
  2. Fitted for train weight, I suppose. Not necessarily speed. That's my argument, at least.
  3. The real drummers became fictional after large shows.
  4. I'll keep that link. Maybe when I catch up on some of my other projects I'll import something.
  5. Things are looking better here. I may be on for a preorder, if I can run it through a retailer. May be time to see if my first-run LMS Garratt will tolerate DCC and sound after 10 years of abuse...
  6. Looks like the eccentrics are doing eccentric things. Separately, too.
  7. Looks a shade out-of-gauge. Might be 7'1/4"?
  8. I'll take a look at the options. It is the RTR Pug. I was going to try to build a Neilson Box from the chassis.
  9. I just picked up a Dapol L&Y Pug. I haven't opened it yet. I seem to remember the motor is to the rear and vertical. Is there a method to laying it forward and horizontal if it is?
  10. This was discussed around another make's delays and failures. Even if KR doesn't voluntarily refund you, you may have a case via UK law.
  11. I just realized my only LNER locos are a J70 and an ES1. This'll look a sight pushing Toby along the mainline.
  12. Was that route electrified? Or were they moved as traffic? My current idea to justify mine on our club's unwired layout was to find a dead LNER steamer and run the ES1 in the middle of a train.
  13. Gresley finally allowed the frames to be extended for more footplate on the 'Hush-Hush.' Hence the extra trailing wheel. I'd imagine the same concession would have needed to be made if the P2 firebox pushed so far into the cab on the Mountain proposal. I'd imagine the actual mounting of the extra wheel would be similar, thus technically making the world's one-and-only 4-8-2-2.
  14. Rev. Awdry had built a model of the van to go with Toby and Henrietta. I think I've seen it on Ffarquhar in recent videos.
  15. @Michael Hodgson Reason I've seen given for the eventual retirement and scrapping of 69999 was 'priming,' resulting from crews overfilling the boiler to keep the crown covered when bunker uphill.
  16. Fair enough. I wasn't aware of the disconnect in era. I'm mostly used to a very specific pairing...
  17. My experience with Heljan has been 50/50, so I'll gamble on a preorder. I have a reputation in the Chicagoland area to uphold, anyways. 'As-built' would be correct for ~1933, correct? On the LMS B-G, I picked mine up by pure chance from a local show some 10 years ago. Been running fine since, so I don't know the issues usually lamented with the model. If Heljan has moved away from the very angry factory that did the 1366, this model should be fine.
  18. I'm surprised no-one's shown pics of these with J70s. Or is their association overstated?
  19. FWIW a piece of sponge or foam would work fine. Maybe an offcut from hill-building?
  20. They just need the grime. Is yours destined for a specific layout? Or a 'stock' loco for whatever you fee like having a play with?
  21. DHL did well. Now for it to languish in a box till I have have at a layout next.
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