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Maybe. Depends on Hatton's intentions. They could much faster and cheaper create a new chassis for the existing body than anyone else could start from scratch.

Over here in the Toronto area we are having a typical July hot spell - overnight temperatures around 22C and daytime highs of 32C (feeling like 38C). Despite these being typical for July - we will get around 10 days every year - various things happen: trains face speed restrictions - see this page from the commuter rail system for example https://www.gotransit.com/en/travelling-with-us/how-weather-affects-service/summer Environment Canada (think Met Office) has issued a heat warning. This has a couple of effects, one it warns people to be careful but it also typically triggers municipalities into opening up cooling locations for people who don't have A/C and in the past extended hours at outdoor pools (varies by municipality). because it works harder the A/C on buses and trains is more prone to failure. The opposite happens during the very cold in the winter - cold alerts get issued, warming places opened, more outreach to the homeless, and (more so with snow) disruptions to trains as switches get blocked - or as in the case in Edmonton in February 2021 the cold caused a rail to crack on the cities LRT system. Which is a long way of saying don't assume things are operating perfectly elsewhere.

Kalmbach Model Realistic Freight Car Loads Model Realistic Freight Car Loads, by Keith Kohlmann, gives many prototype examples of freight car loads from common to unique, and from small to large. Follow along with tons of pictures and drawings showing how to realistically secure loads and operate them. There are hundreds of types of loads, including machinery, heavy equipment, pipe, beams, lumber, boilers, generators, transformers, and many others. The challenge in modeling is making freight car loads more realistic! Model Realistic Freight Car Loads will guide you in making your models more realistic by following prototype practice in securing loads and operating them. Included are a lot of photos of real loads, drawings showing how real railroads secure them to cars, and several modeled examples with tips on making model loads as realistic as possible. You’ll get a variety of types of loads, including: Farm machinery and heavy equipment. Steel and metal products. Buses, trucks, cars, and other vehicle loads. Forest products and building materials. And much more! Size: 8.25 x 10.75 Pages: 112 https://kalmbachhobbystore.com/product/book/12838

An interchange doesn't need to be either big or fancy. The recently shut down shortline where I am interchanged with CP and the interchange was simply a short siding where the freight cars could be dropped off/picked up from. So for your shelf layout railroad A could enter the layout, drop off some cars, maybe pick up a couple, and leave and then railroad B could switch those cars.

Model Railroad Hobbyist - July 2022 MRH Website this month: Bare minimum layout, ... What's Neat: Awesome moss mat scenery, ... Quad servo decoder monitor, part 2 Scratchbuild a branch line turntable A beginner's guide to railroad signals Savvy Modeler online: Easy LED lights for Athearn diesels https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/mrh-202207-jul-2022-12399860

It is understandable that his posting on here didn't last when one looks at how busy he is - his blog is updated frequently and anyone interested in inspiration and ideas could do no worse than scroll through and look at some of his North American posts - like building a CP GP20C-ECO from a resin kit... Then add in running a company bringing it's first RTR UK loco to market, writing a book on designing UK layouts coming out next month and one wonders when he sleeps. But the reason for the post, in addition to reminding people about his blog, is to congratulate @James Hilton on being published in the August RMC (which I haven't seen yet, but will be getting the issue at some point).

Railroad Model Craftsman July 2022 llinois Terminal O’Fallon Branch — Set in the summer of 1961, this HO scale layout hosts relaxed branch line operations. Penn Central G47 Gondolas — These 50 ft. Fruehauf gondolas built in 1971 and 1972 served well into the Conrail era. Kitbashed Modern Warehouse in HO — Readily available Pikestuff kits are the base for this simple kitbash and detail project. Scratchbuild a Three-Door Boxar — Based on a 1910-era prototype, this HO scale supply car is built using simple methods. Scratchbuilt Billboard from a Photo — A photo was the inspiration to build a unique mid-century billboard with dimensional elements. Building a Small Layout for Operations — Inspired by various Texas short lines, this small layout is packed with operating potential. Corrugated Steel from Tin Foil — An N scale Walthers grain elevator kit is dressed up with steel panels made from tin foil. August 2022 Mineral & Southfork Railway — This freelanced O scale narrow gauge layout is inspired by the mining history of Alaska. Evans Side Slider — Favored by short lines, these innovative cars were replaced by centerbeam flats. Model a Highway Overhead Bridge — Using various kits to replicate a typical NYSDOT highway crossing of the 1990s. DCC Sound Upgrade for Brass Steam — Upgrading old brass imports with improved DCC sound and keep-alive circuits. Build a Roarin’ Elgin Elevated Shanty — This Chicago, Aurora & Elgin prototype was typical of trackside installations. Island Inspiration: Canadian National 70-tonner and Caboose in HO • by James Hilton — Inspired by a vintage photo of a bygone scene of railroading on Prince Edward Island. Railfan & Railroad July 2022 Baltimore & Ohio: The Last Outposts — Time finally caught up to a world where armstrong towers still protected the CSX main line in the wilds of Appalachia. Metra: Chicago’s Towers — Staffed interlocking towers help thread hundreds of commuter trains through Chicago’s busiest junctions day in and day out, but for how long? Southern Pacific: South Bay Sentinel — Photographer Ted Benson looks back at Niles Tower in California that protected a crossing between Southern Pacific and Western Pacific until 1985. Erie Lackawanna: Tower Tales — Tower operators throughout Erie Lackawanna’s busy New York Division had to be quick on their feet to keep a busy schedule of freight and passenger trains moving smoothly. August 2022 Tacoma’s Lakewood Sub — This BNSF secondary was transformed into a robust main line to accommodate additional passenger trains in and around Tacoma. 2022 Center Spread Contest — Our readers submitted hundreds of creative entries, but only one can occupy the coveted center spread position. Last Gasp for Chinese Steam — The coal mines of Sandaoling were home to the last holdouts for regular service steam in China, and around the world. Iowa’s QJ Moves to Silvis — Iowa Interstate’s Chinese 2-10-2 6988 moves to Railroading Heritage of Midwest America’s backshops in Silvis, Ill. Change on the Valley Sub — Former Chicago & North Western lines in northern Wisconsin operated by Canadian National will now go to a new short line. O Scale Trains Magazine July/August 2022 Pour Me A River — Part 6 Resurrecting an Old Westside Virginian Triplex — Part 3 Building Your Layout — Part 3 Construction The Basics of Painting Figures Backdating a Lionel 40-Foot TOFC Trailer Narrow Gauge & Shortline Gazette July/August 2022 Along The Waterfront On The Sn3 Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Co. — Part I: Water Effects, Dock And Cargo Transfer System. Experiments In Operation — It Works For Me. The Resurrection Of A Casey Jones — Team Effort. Locomotives Of The White Pass & Yukon Route — Part 3: The Oldest And The Youngest (So Far). The Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company — 42-Inch Gauge Logging Railroad At Eufaula, Washington. The On3 Hangman Creek Lumber Company — Back Again. Layout Refinements — Painting Without Paint! The Como Roundhouse On My 0n3 Colorado Central And Southern — A classic. Old Placerville Petroleum Distributors -- Part 1: Conoco Distributor. The Narrow Gauge Scene — The Family Rands.

Kadee - July 2022 - available now 40' PS-1 Boxcar - Central R.R. of New Jersey #23548 - Built 1957 factory new paint scheme https://www.kadee.com/shop-by-category/freight-cars/ho-scale-rtr-cars/5326-ho-scale-central-r-r-of-new-jersey-cnj-23548-rtr-40-ps-1-boxcar

Exactly. Company won't give a pay raise so instead the offer a better job title to make employee feel better about no raise. Many employees now take this inflated job description and use it to get better pay at a new company. Repeat as necessary.

There was an update in last week's Rapido UK News - factory is in the injecting phase and they hope to have production photos soon.

So for some of us that is about a 10' x 10' L shape layout with a width of about 2' - so a very good size for a layout and it will be interesting to see what you create. Some random thoughts. perhaps a 3rd party diesel repair/overhaul facility - a potential excuse for your Vermont locos (and any other that catch your eye in the future) an interchange layout in a small town (or the outskirts of said town), and given the generic (as in nothing necessarily unique to a given railroad) nature of modern railroading you could alternative locos depending on your mood - interchange between CN and NS, or interchange Vermont and CN, etc. dedicate the layout to a single railroad and simply switch the industries, and vary which railroad serves the industries depending on your mood. have a track that "exits" the layout off the front where you can connect a cassette type system to hold your locos between sessions (so you don't need to handle them if switching between CN/NS/etc) of course the nature of modern railroading is that whichever railroad you are operating may have leased/borrowed a loco or 2 from another railroad so you can run with mixed loco consists - this is more likely between class I's or a short line may "borrow" a class I loco but it is unlikely you would see a class I using a shortline loco. don't forget a simple transload facility, for maybe plastic pellets for example, which just needs to be a track with a driveway next to it and perhaps some pipes/pumps on the ground - ideal for the front of the layout.

There is a new company, based in Kansas City, called ClassOneModelworks.com First product are a container and a well car. Thrall TWF10 DTTX Well Car - TTX (due fall 2022) Container - 48' exterior post - Hyndai, Monon Company website - https://classonemodelworks.com/ Model Railroader post about the new company - https://www.trains.com/mrr/news-reviews/news/meet-classonemodelworks-com/

Arrowhead Models New run of their Greenville 2494 "Railgon" Gondola - Helm Pacific (2 numbers) and as an exclusive for Lombard Hobbies B&O. https://arrowheadmodels.com/collections/shop

If you get the newsletter, read it. If you don't, you should subscribe. If you get the newsletter and read it you would know that the 2nd toad has been removed as research revealed it was a different diagram and thus not the model they are tooling - thus they have removed it.

This can be quite common - they are frequently much cheaper to hire than a proper bus given that they spend most of their existence parked and how many of them (and the associated driver) that are needed for those 2 periods of the day taking kids to school and then home again. Generally no problem finding a driver wanted to earn a bit of extra money given how poorly paid they often are. Though the drawback is that they really aren't designed for adult comfort.

This sort of exists in the North American market (they are called/marketed as "undecorated") where it is frequently impossible (even after the 3rd production run) to have offered not just all the liveries a loco carried for a specific railroad but even all the railroads that had the unit. The catch is that few people actually want undecorated models, and the factories don't like dealing with them. They involve special handling in the factory to get all the parts assembled in a box and the low volume of sales (often 10 or less) means it is financially feasible to create assembly instructions - so it ends up as a "here is the box of parts, you figure it out" situation. The end result is some companies no longer make them (Athearn), some companies make them but usually end up clearing them out with significant price cuts (ScaleTrains), and some companies will only make them to pre-order and they must be pre-ordered in batches of 6(?) (Rapido). It's possible the UK market would be different but I would suspect the modern form of offering many liveries per run that companies like Accurascale use would mean few would want to bother.

Exactrail - July 2022 - available now Magor 4948 'Big John' Covered Hoppers - https://exactrail.com/blogs/announcements/coming-very-soon-magor-4948-big-john-covered-hoppers https://exactrail.com/collections/magor-4948-big-john-covered-hopper

The ability to combine products from multiple manufacturers into one shipment to save shipping costs. To test the product first. To advise you of announced products that may interest you based on your shopping habits that you may be unaware of. etc. Mail order is a large business, but calling it the norm is misleading in that there is still a lot of physical sales. And there are still a lot of people who like to see something in person before buying. As for inventory, yes it can be important - you want that item released 9 months ago that is sold out at Accurascale, Rapido, etc? There may well be a retailer with stock. How much is your time worth? It can often be easier to ship it to the retailer and then let them deal with the hassles of dealing with a warranty repair. They aren't - but you are confusing online sales with buying from the importer/manufacturer when most online sales are through a retailer - whether it be a large company like Amazon or a small corner shop selling on eBay.

Those wanting a chassis to use for a 3D printed body may be better asking one of the existing chassis makers to scale something up/down.

Depends (speaking hypothetically). An established company with a healthy cash flow and profits from 2nd/3rd/4th/etc runs of product (for the UK think Bachmann, Dapol, Heljan, Hornby, Rapido, and Accurascale soon) can take a bit more of a risk/gamble as they have those established product lines to cover any losses (up to a point) if they guess incorrectly. The smaller companies - whether they wish to remain small or just haven't had enough time to grow - can't necessarily afford to risk that capital on a market that currently numbers less than a 1,000. And while I expect that number to grow dramatically with the first RTR loco release, it still will be small for the first say 3 years. And that is the problem with crowd-funding - TT:120 simply doesn't yet have enough people to invest in a proposed product in my opinion. Peco didn't enter it based on either. Heljan isn't doing the 31 based on either. Creating a new market means a combination of companies willing to risk the losses and smaller companies doing the smaller items that require minimal capital. Or someone willing to invest/pay for a product accepting the risk. But, in my view, until the market reaches a certain point (and I am unsure what that point is) there won't be enough people to attempt to crowd source from. Yep, the last 20 years has made that very clear.

Accurail - July 2022 USRA Twin Hopper - N&W ACF 2-Bay Covered Hopper - Monon, Rock Island, Chicago & Eastern Illinois 41' Steel Gondola - BN 40' Single Sheath Wood Boxcar - C&O ACF 2-Bay Covered Hopper - SP, Data Only 40' Wood Reefer - SOO Line/URTX http://accurail.com/accurail/CATALOG/2022/2022_July.pdf

Speaking generically (with no knowledge of Revolution or anyone else's plans) I think it is a bit early in TT:120 for anyone to be considering a crowd funded (of whatever variety) product - I don't think there are sufficient people willing at this point to put up money in TT:120. While the possibility of cross-Channel sales can potentially help make a few models more viable that could potentially be offset by the various issues that now must be faced by the seller (and buyer) in cross-Channel selling - and this will impact the viability of cross-Channel crowd funding as well. So for the first several years my guess is that TT:120 will be supported by traditional RTR methods (the company fronts all the development costs and takes the risks) and by smaller cottage operations.

Depends on ticket. If you have a room then what Amtrak calls Traditional Dining is available with proper meals - this is a sample menu for the Southwest Chief - https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/menus/routes/Long-Distance-Dining-Car-Menu-0621.pdf For everyone else there is a cafe, but the menu is rather limited - https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/menus/national/National-Cafe-Menu-1021.pdf

I don't know that changing the announcement pattern would change the value of the catalogue to most who buy it - you can already get the announcement information online faster than going and getting a printed catalogue anyway. I suspect that the catalogue is more of a "wish/dream" book than anything else - something to look at as one ponders the possibilities of a potential layout. But even if they move to multiple announcements a year they could always get creative and create a small "gossip" section in the catalogue with clever hints at what might get announced in the next 12 months. Then give a week's advance notice that an announcement is coming and a lot of people would go back to their catalogue to ponder through those cryptic hints... And then discuss it online, generating more interest for Hornby. Repeat X times until the next edition gets released.