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Removed - wrong picture. Best Scott

Plus one. Although I have been look at the 2mm Assoc and Worlsey Works etches... Best Scott.

Thanks!! Best Scott

If built, the return loop station would take its inspiration from this layout (I can't remember the name of it just now, but I think it's an O gauge layout..: Best Scott

I posted this rough concept earlier in the thread, but I'm sure it will have been lost in the great photo pause. This was my idea for a user friendly Minories "system" with an out and back "fiddle Yard":

Thanks, that's very helpful. Best Scott.

Hello, I have a question with regard to Carflat trains, new vehicle transport as opposed to MOtorail services. I am modelling the period '62-63 and am using the NGS/Farish Carflat A to model a train. At this time the guard would need to be accommodated in a vehicle at or towards the rear of the train, unless I've got things very wrong in my head. Would this have utilised a BG of either pre or post-nationalisation origin, or would a goods brake van have been used? The only photograph I have in my collection that shows a whole train is in "Last Years of the Waverley Route", David Cross, but the train is so long that it is impossible to tell what the guard's vehicle is, although it does look like a coach rather than a brake van. I'm struggling to find other images on line that show the guard accommodation, but I may be using the wrong search words. Any help on this would be gratefully appreciated. Best Scott.

I visited on a two day stopover in Los Angeles in 2019. We stayed at a hotel at Tehachapi itself and then headed down to the loop one morning en-route Bakersfield to meet a friend. It's a wonderful location, with good access and plenty of good angles, although sitting in a valley, the sun takes a while to get over the ridgeline. Traffic flow is quite high as well. Best Scott.

This is an excellent initiative. I always read your explanations and reminiscences with great care and enthusiasm. Please continue to make these posts when you can. Best Scott.

Is it possible to retain the Y arrangement but have the Northern line feed into the lower fiddle yard? I hope that makes sense? In other words, have the Bodmin North line curve down into the lower fiddle yard, as in the second drawing, but off scene so it doesn't jar with the prototype layout. No ducking under then required. Best Scott.

You’re a big girl now - Bob Dylan

You actual what?! Incredulous of The Mearns.

Agreed. It does! Best Scott.

Fire up the Quattro!

Would it help if we had a list of what Accurascale offer/have offered in OO gauge?: Locomotives Class 30/31 Class 37 Class 50 Class 55 Class 89 Class 92 GWR 7800 Manor Coaches BR Mark 1 Non-gangway Suburban - BS, BT, CL, S, SLO, T, TO BR Mark 2b - BFK, FK, QXA (RTC Test Vehicles), SK, TSO BR Mark 2c - BFK, BSO, FK, FO, SK, SO, TSO, TSO(T) Mark 5 - Caledonian Sleeper Mark 5a - TransPennine Express GWR Siphon G Wagons CDA China Clay Cemflo/PCV KAV/Coil A Cutdown HYA Hopper FNA-D Nuclear Carrier HOP24 HUO HYA-IIA Hopper IIA Biomass JSA Coil Carrier KUA Nuclear Carrier MDO/MDV 21 Ton Mineral HAA Hopper HBA Hopper HCA Hopper HDA Hopper HMA Hopper MHA Ballast Wagon NER 20T Hopper NER 4T Chaldron PCO17B/C PCA Cement PFA Container Flat PTA/JTA+JUA Tippler SR Banana Van Best Scott.

Adhering to Fran’s request for shrinking of OO models already on their books: For me, I’d like to see the HUO to Accurascale standards along with the 21T Mineral. I’d also buy a skinhead 31. although too modern for me, the Mark 2s I think would be a particularly attractive proposition for the N Gauge community, esspecially if released in multiple versions at once. It would probably make sense to do different sub types (C, D, etc) from the Farish tooling. Best Scott.

The AIM-9 has a fragmentation warhead, and a proximity detonator, the effect being rather like a FlaK shell, so I’m not sure it would Be blown to smithereens. It’s interesting though, the seeker on an AIM-9 is infrared so the object must have been putting out a decent heat signature. On top of that I’d suggest a guns attack would involve the interceptor having to close to a much closer range, potentially endangering it if the ballon reacted with an unpredictable flight path after it had been hit. just my thoughts. Best Scott.

Flickr has a feature that allows you to designate any picture a "favourite". This will then be remembered in a "favourites" folder of sorts. To the bottom right of the image you are looking at, there is a star shape. If you click on that the image is placed in your "favourites" to be viewed whenever you fancy. Best Scott.

Bristol Blenheim? best Scott.

Worth every penny, I'd say... Best Scott.

Montrose to Kings Cross (in one go), multiple times, and I couldn't see what all the fuss was about in honesty. I actually found it was better for the posture than many other train seats and certainly nowhere near as uncomfortable as all the horror stores led me to believe. Best Scott.

Ah. I missed your commentary back in August. Thanks. However...*sigh* Best Scott.

I've been out of the loop with TSW on PS4. Wots...uh the deal with TSW3 ? I have TSW2 installed. Do I need to shell out for Mk3 should I want to purchase the upcoming Edinburgh - Glasgow Express package? Anyone know? Best Scott.

This will be an unpopular view, I appreciate, but it looks like the room is too small for what you're trying to achieve, not helped by the requirement to change height. Depending on the length of your trains would this be a potential solution, a train lift? Best Scott.

Understood. Best Scott.