Wright writes.....
Tony Wright has penned a follow up email to his contribution to Tim Easter's Thompson A2 build topic - http://www.rmweb.co....225#entry843846 - so I thought I'd create a separate topic for the follow-up to save any distraction from Tim's builds.
Today's entry moves swiftly onwards from the building of a selection of Thompson A2s onto history and opinions of their performance in service.
A2/2 60501. This loco has already appeared on RMWeb, appearing on Gilbert Barnatt's Peterboro
Some more goodies to look at arrived this afternoon, brought by Steve Purves, Bachmann's designer.
He brought the other two V2 proving models with him. They ran beautifully as well, even with their cylinder drain cocks fixed on, and one had the flanged Cartazzi wheelset in place.
I found out a lot more about them. All the DCC gubbins and speaker will be inside the loco, not the tender. The tender has pick-ups fitted, that's all. There's also a f
