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
Here in Melbourne another long weekend and a lovely day (Melbourne cup) and the family being up to there own thing. I sat down to do more on a Finney V2
this is one of the few chassis that I have built that first time rolled nicely even with the 120degrees on the drivers.
I have to say that as kits go it go it is the first time that when building the kit it practically "clicks" into place. The frame extensions on the left hand Side practically did click into place. I enjoy the
