[Imaginary Locomotives]

Not a Crosti 9F - but an FS 741 class 2-8-0. Although set in Italy some scenes in the last ten minutes of that film were shot in Spain as well necessitating fitting cosmetic smoke deflectors to 2-8-0 with a normal boiler as the sequences shot in Spain utilised a RENFE 141F 2-8-2 which was so fitted.  

[Hornby announce the LNER J36]

Is there anything worth making for the Highland? Certainly not RTR wise.

 

No class bigger than twenty examples. Very few locomotives lasted until the 1930s.

 

Only one locomotive preserved which would be extremely difficult to produce due to it's driving wheels. Nice but impractical.

 

A couple of nice looking 4-4-0s but they were heavily rebuilt (the Big and Small Bens) which meant the last one which was preserved was scrapped as it wasn't original.

 

 

 

Jason

I agree with the point that Highland locos are unlikely to be viable rtr. But I think that the Drummond "Barney" 0-6-0 wheelbase was the same as the LSWR 700 class as modelled by Hornby. I know that the "Barneys" were reboilered by the LMS and so there are detail differences. Perhaps a conversion might be possible although Hornby's 700 has the extended smokebox fitted when superheated. But it's still great to have the J36!