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Very happy to see this being done RTR. I don't finish projects, and the DJH white metal kit would have been more daunting than I really care to admit. Probably not much of a price difference, either.

Was that a real Triang loco?

The 8x4 layout (I'd have said 4x8 myself) is based on a 'standard' sheet of plywood from your local hardware store or lumber yard. Buy a sheet, maybe run some stripwood along the edges to stiffen it up, and drop your oval down. You can easily fit 18" safely, and 22" can just be barely accommodated. In speaking of imaginary locos, what might an American-market English Electric 'road' loco have looked like? Tall cab behind a 37-style nose, with slightly wide hood?

I certainly don't have a nice basement to build an empire in. I do know of at least one club layout, though, with a minimum 60" radius.

Semi-permanently coupled locos still fall into the same logical fallacy that led to many inept early UK diesel classes - that Diesel locos should replace steam locos like-for-like. American roads originally wanted the same idea. It took EMD selling A-B sets, or the like, to convince the roads to use multiple working. Twin locos also still holds the same issue of overall length. I also fail to see why the high weights on individual American Diesels is an argument against MW practice? Maybe against importation of prime movers or whole locos from the US.

I wasn't contending that. I'm curious how availability compared between the makes. Also, didn't EE mostly export within the empire? I believe that has been discussed before.

Royal coach?

Licensing production of EMD engines, as was done with German designs, wasn't as viable. EMD's were reliable partly because they weren't chasing super-high horsepower quite by '55. According to a chart on Wikipedia, the highest horsepower offered in a single EMD engine by '55 was the 16-cylinder 567C at 1750bhp. That only manages midrange of Type 3 expectations on it's own.

Was this an AC locomotive in the first place? You will need to change the wheels either way. AC axles tend to be uninsulated.

Most likely some line that did not update it's infrastructure since the 1860's. This would be an absolutely tiny loco for standard gauge. I could see, with the aforementioned deletion of 'colonial' details, that this would be a very likely outside-framed two-footer of some nature. Possibly one of the now 'dead' lines, such as the Leek & Manifold.

Maybe the taper isn't very Garratt-y, but it is very Pennsy.

Also to be considered is that 30 years of very hard work takes it toll on any piece of machinery. Also, a lot of the common components still needed individual hand-fitting from loco to loco. Though I'd imagine that may still ring true on the BR Standards.

Need some glorious 0-6-2+2-4-2-4-2+2-6-0

I may. It was several years ago know.

A couple years ago, both on the forum and in the magazines, there were reports of burst cars when internal lead weight was secured with cyanoacrylate. There is a chemical reaction between the two that gives off gasses. Sealed wagon bodies led to a build-up of said gasses. It was thought, as PVA is water-based, that using PVA was safer.

I like mine. Happy to see another modeler of taste, obtaining the shirtbutton livery.

TBF almost none of the TV models were good representations of Awdry's writing. Looking at the Rev. Awdry books, James looks like a pastiche of the K boiler & firebox, with the 403 cab and footplate. Applies well to the Dalby illustrations. Neither Kenney nor the Edwards seem to have drawn him much.

The Orc looks like a 94XX. Your Elvens look like Snowdon locos simplified for adhesion service.

If we're speaking of E2's, how practical or feasible would a 'real' version of the television Thomas be? I'd wager the wheelbase is about 75% shorter in length. I suppose it is difficult to to ascertain boiler efficiency or the like from a deformed model. Did the LB&SCR have any boilers that would match the appearance?

I appreciate how elegant the pregrouping 4-4-0's all seem to have. Especially as it seems lost on American 4-4-0's. What color are you having it painted? BR Unlined Black?

As it sits, I can't tell if this chassis is coming or going.

I hope it is a lack of shading making the wrap-over top windows look odd. The whole roof curve looks odd from those CADs.

Mine (LMS Black 17566) arrived very late yesterday. I should be able to check running tonight.

My Talavera arrived late yesterday. Ended up spending an evening outside in rather chill temps. I have a chance at test running it, maybe even running in, this evening. I hopefully can say more in the morning. Am I the only one that got Talavera? I feel like everyone on this thread went either 'as preserved' or 'service' LNWR.

Has there been any further development or news on the King?