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    Do it. Cheaper than trying to go O-16.5
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    Wouldn't it be Warren on Polly? I don't know with these English placenames.
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    It was just a thought I had had in response to the comments on the reveal.
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    Does anyone have a Bachman "Donald" or "Douglas" to hand? Might want to see if the coarse details we're seeing here are present on the T&F jobs. That might be a sign. My original thought to have an 812 was to buy one the above, and (literally) deface it. Now I'm concerned we're paying a premium for a detailed Thomas model.
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    Now that thing is properly ugly.
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    Legos are an unsung hero to many modeling problems. As a basic engineering tool, they achieve results modelers would often dream, with less effort. Shame both the cost, and the fact imitation products are tangibly worse.
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    Reviving a 'dead' thread. In re the Farish conversion, what is involved? Louvers and pantos? Cutting and shutting?
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    Another for the CVMR? Or will this be sent to scrap?
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    I'd be game for a Pug-off. How would prize support go for international, though? I live stateside. While I hold few expectations on winning, I've noticed most contests exclude foreign contestants.
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    I think the commission model concept is a bit too original to judge whether regular production will occur. The earliest I know of personally is Heljan's Garratt. That did eventually come to regular release. I can't make heads-or-tails of Heljan's strategies, though. Hard, for me at least, to say whether Bachmann will milk this tooling like they have some others.
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    I had thought the size of your board was dictated by access considerations. Would the 15cm no lose you those considerations, given you already didn't accommodate it?
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    Here's a thought (probably repeated somewhere in the last 350 pages.) Would there have been potential in a steam-motor setup? Could a bank of multiple cylinders, with an overall greater volume than would be possible with two-, three-, or four-cylinder conventional drives, attached to a jackshaft, provide higher potential output inside a given loading gauge?
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    Which are pretty reasonable objections. Even over here, width was a consideration. Most of the American builders were in the North-East. I forget which locomotive class it was, but at least one of the superheavy-types built for the Western states had to be delivered with its cylinders off, for clearance east of the Mississippi.
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    40 years before I was born is conservative. I grew up reading watching Shining Time Station and reading The Railway Series. Oliver was one of my favorite characters (along with the stable of the MSR.) Finding out he was based on a real locomotive, easily modeled, was a revelation. Honestly, the focus on 30's GWR is almost regrettable now, as I have always had a penchant for the odd, and ~1930 LMS is infinitely more appealing there. So, GWR in N and LMS in OO, where the oddities are often available.
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    Sorry, I misremembered. On multiple counts, it seems.
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    The Duke was two-cylinders, as well. Damn good locomotive, especially after Swindon was removed from the picture.
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    Looking good. Does honestly make me think of one Thomas serial involving a dam.
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    The UK wasn't the only country implementing gangways on diesels. Pretty much every cab unit in the US carried a gangway, at least at the rear of the body. I believe some cab units, and later cowl & hood-types had nose gangways, as well.
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    If there was a butt seam, I'd wager there would be an additional gusset. Oddly, I don't note evidence of either in @Mikkel's photo.
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    Probably based on a standard width of fabric available from textile mills. Modern standards for fabric are a yard across, if I remember correctly. If it was the same standard back then, that'd give 5 yards, or 15 feet, of tarp. TBH, I've honestly forgotten the normal wheelbase, or body length for a RCH open. I think 15 feet is about right looking at the pics being posted.
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    5-minute epoxy might do the trick. I don't know if the solder joint would be stronger. I'm probably wrong.
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    I just wanted to know how easy it would have been to 'win' a year or two. Double-checking the dispositions on Wikipedia, looks like Talavera was already one of the last scrapped, so renaming is less of an issue.
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    Were all Improved Precedent-class 'plates the same dimensions? Or did they change sizes with the length of the name?
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    Except LNER, it seems.
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    That's a hopeful sight. Not too much longer, I hope.
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