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Yes, and TTj does exist, but it is very niche and eye-wateringly expensive. I saw a Tenshodo D51 in 1:120 advertised some time in the 90s, for the then-equivalent of $3000 - could get a very good used car for that price back then. Edit to add: NZ120 is fairly common and uses the same setup, 1:120 on 9 mm track, and I know of a few people who've done some South African and Rhodesian outline models like that, too, and one person has done Canadian National's Newfoundland operations in 1:120/9mm as well. I've long been mildly tempted to dabble in a bit of Rhodesian modelling, but... I'm tempted by a lot.

But that's the thing... British equipment really is just that small. I've wanted to get into British modelling for years, and I was really eyeing the 3mm scale stuff to at least keep the common track gauge with my other models, but in the end I just really couldn't get over the discrepancy, how oversized it looked. TT:120 came, and now I'm here too. Japan doing N at 1:150 scale/9 mm gauge makes some sense, because the narrow-gauge appearance is a good thing, since Japan runs on Cape gauge. But a 1:101 Class 22 on 12 mm gauge being bigger than a Hungarian M41 in 1:120 on the same gauge is just... wrong. Though that might be because, being used to Continental and North American equipment, the smallness of British equipment has always been apparent to me.

No, nothing like that, just the cairn in the pics in the link. Actually, I didn't even know about the cairn until I did a google search for Tintagel, BC, looking to reply to your post here. There's a lot in northern BC to see, but I haven't yet been north of 100 Mile House in the west and Tete Jaune Cache near the border with Alberta. Maybe one day soon. Thanks for that lengthy reply, though, that was fascinating reading. The entire thing of myths and mysteries is something I can relate to with Hungarian history, there's precious little from before the 12th century that we can know for sure, and virtually nothing from "our own" sources, rather having to rely on Byzantine, Persian, Arabic, and other writers, especially for the period before the Magyars crossed the Carpathians, when they were allied with the Khazar Khaganate... but that's waaaay off topic now.

Tintagel is in British Columbia! https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMHQCR_Tintagel_Castle_Stone_Tintagel_British_Columbia_Canada

Would never have thought that when I took a photo of it in September 2019 that it would soon be gone...

That said, I suspect it'll be 3 mm Society to turn to for British steam locomotive drivers...

North West Short Line also has suitable wheels, and Modmüller in Germany (https://www.muellerradsatz.de/c/tt-radsaetze) have TT wheelsets for NEM, BTTB, and NMRA RP-25 standards.

Shame, too, as that's a very pretty building.

Now THAT would be entertaining to see...

I notice the adverts seem to be in good condition, though.

Yes, I'd heard about this when they first announced, thought, cool, more TT, but promptly forgot about it as being far out of my areas of interest. Maybe eventually they'll make something Portuguese outline? Either way... it is definitely a good development as it grows the scale.

Thanks for that link, the photos are great. I was just scanning through another article on them, at https://trainconsultant.com/2020/09/21/le-wagon-foudre-sa-vie-son-oeuvre-discutable/ , but I'll have to give it a better read when I'm less tired. But it's more of a history of barrel wagons in general.

Quite. He, along with Lezlinilzen terepasztala (his Hungarian equivalent) are just about the only things I bother to look at on FB...

I first learned it in a very different context...

Thanks for the translation... my French (Québecois) is enough to get by on a day-to-day basis, but there's a great deal of more specialised terminology that I don't know. Like barrels. Even better then - I won't have to try to build or CAD-draw the bilevels! Just get some more bi-foudres, maybe a few vans, and I'm set... (well, and find references for making État-era appropriate lettering for the bi-foudres, as they are they're SNCF)