Rob Hayes

Hi all I have sadly not posted much on here in ages and I am not totally sure this is the right place. This video I took recently as a tribute to my late Grandad and also to the A4s I love so much. It features my modded Bachmann A4 Mallard and Hornby Railroad A4 Sir Nigel Gresley done how she was in the late 60s in garter blue with gold lettering and valences removed. I am happy with how the video came out on my iphone and thought I would share it I hope you enjoy it if you choose to watch it and all comments good and bad are welcome. Many thanks Rob

nice memories and lol cornish pasty thats great i see what you mean, id love to see that in real life the train stops and the passengers start eating it. haha.

well to be fair i wasnt around then im only goin on old editions of railway modeller that i read from the 70s and in the issues i had it seemed that there was not much available i had forgot about the ones you mentioned. i fondly remember articles were people would set out to build a model of a loco and someone was making hst bodies out of wood and fiting them to a chassis. runing them with mk2s as there was no mk3s out, great read and always reminds me how lucky we are today. if no manufacture wanted to make all these lovely models we would be stuffed. much as the jouef 40 is not the best model its got a charm about it thats for sure and i like the look of the lower bodyside sweep. cheers rob

it might be old but its a nice bit of nostalgia and its got a lovely character of its own, it also reminds me that when it came out i think it was either alone or the only other locos available that were british diesel was a mainline 45 , mainline 56 and possibly lima 55 and 33. other than that as far as i can see thats all that was available in 00 . so it was a shining star in its day and still is for what it is. ones ive seen are good runners. possibly better than alot of models from that time. also older locos can have advantages. i have 4 bachman 40s, and 4 lima 40s. i love them both they both look like 40s however i think the lima has a better height. now then i had put sound in the one Bachmann 40 it was loud enough. however i got a railroad 40 and then got ideas of fitting my aureol locos body to it, with the idea of putting dcc supplies biggest bass reflex speaker in (the one thats too big for 37s fuel tanks ) and the smaller bass enhanced speaker in.(WOW) its so damn loud now, i just done this tonight cant belive what a great runner it is too. cv63 on setting 64 is unbearably loud can feel my ears ringing and its perfectly audible on volume level 1, level 5 is fine and level 10 is louder than than a bachman sound 37 out of box, really happy with it, and great to see my old aureol in br blue running and you dont percive it as a lima loco if you know what i mean, holds up well with the new Bachmann 37s now. ill do a vid and post it at somepoint, so my point is buy lima locos detail them fit huge speakers into the hollow body which acts as a cathederal like acoustics centre. just as i hoped it would. im chuffed. great read this article cheers rob

well i love sound and im always adding it to them, however i still love to run engines quietly and listen to their own sound, its all about the enjoyment really, i see sound as an added bonus, a big one at that, but at least we have the choice, if i was to turn up to an exibition (been a while now) i wouldnt expect to hear everything with sound quite the oposite. its just nice to have the choice. i cant imagine how much it would cost to do my whole collection and alot of it is very old stuff, such as a Hornby ivatt 46521 im not sure that would even take a decoder.