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Found this video tape (no longer available) https://www.videoscene.co.uk/deltics-the-style-the-sound-and-the-speed which claims the following: I do think each reply on this derailing of the topic should carry a donation to charity, but eh. If Hornby were actually planning a Deltic, we might have the narrowest thread of justification 😀

So far off topic (there should be a button to pay a small fine for this, proceeds to charity). (Embed from flickr - click through for original with caption) Also this from the Steve Banks parcels formations page: https://www.steve-banks.org/images/historical/parcels/pcls_1967_1_22_d9018_2000_870_72.jpg

These are excellent, thanks 👍

Perhaps...what they actually know is what they learnt from their childhood train sets? big passenger locos only ever hauled matching rakes of passenger carriages, all of the same generation tender locos never ran tender first parcels consists weren't wildly mixed, they were always a neat and tidy TPO + matching vans big passenger locos would never be seen hauling freight brake vans are only ever found at the rear of a freight train a brake coach is always the last vehicle in a passenger train, and there's only ever one in the consist restaurant cars always go in the middle of a passenger consist Said with much love.

+1 These are (slightly) the majority of what I fit now. The flexibility is useful where NEM mounts aren't kinematic, or the kinematic mount is sticking or the spring is broken (I buy a lot of secondhand stock, so this is common). The only downside is that when both vehicles have pivoting couplings, the propelling performance can be degraded. For fixed rakes it can be minimised by fitting one end of the vehicle with fixed coupling and the other end pivoting.

I have the Roco Ludmilla and it's excellent. I had picked up the idea somewhere that Roco had quit TT, but eh, clearly not 🙂

I don't have a list, but I have 2 of the latest ones per (at time of writing) https://www.Dapol.co.uk/collections/br-class-73 73 120 BR Blue 73 136 Intercity Executive Both worked perfectly out of the box. I had (and no longer have) a first batch Civil Engineers Dutch one which had the known issues (stuttering, stalling, sluggish performance), and didn't improve with running in or cleaning away excess grease. It also had the 'Dapol Lemon Yellow' issue with the paint. Both of the second batch ones are excellent in my view, at a good price. Wish-listing is bad, but I'm hoping they do a further batch with Intercity Swallow, NSE, and a more accurately coloured Dutch livery. Or plain grey.

rmweb's ability to go off-topic into pointless nitpicks is legendary, but then we also get off-topic gems like this. 🙂 Probably the best thing I'll read today 🙂 Thanks.

Was it this one? Such realism 😛

Some people are just unlucky. Bad RNG in this round of the game probably. As an unhelpful anecdote I’ve bought around 200 OO or HO locomotives in the last 10 years, and maybe 15 had issues. So < 10% failure rate. Only 2 DOA, both secondhand purchases. Sorry this is unhelpful, but it’s a data point 🙂

Gandy dancer (pump handcart). I had the Bachmann one 30 years ago. I feel it could be…improved upon.

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If that’s true that’s looking like a career wind-down or a passion move. The Lego Group (TLG) is a much bigger enterprise with a much stronger public brand 🙂

ImaginatioN? 🙂 I'd buy a couple, wrong chassis or not. But then again, many fortunes have probably been lost on rmwebbers saying "well I'd buy a couple". 🙂

Oh I should have spotted, BSC Friction Pedestal vs. Gloucester, if I remember correctly things I learnt 30 years ago 😛 Brake gear and other chassis arrangements might be different also. I have a feeling RevolutioN aren't going to be keen on 'near enough' liveries which don't match the wagon diagram. Perhaps a new RevolutioN sub-brand is needed? 🙂