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I said it as the verb once when I was a kid, visiting the States and playing Monopoly, and was very emphatically corrected that it's pronounced "Redding"... and since getting into railways in general, that's the only way I've ever heard it pronounced...

Now I'm confused: is Reading, England not pronounced "Redding"?

Well 1:120 is your friend then! 1 inch = 10 feet! :)

Quite, and 1:120 is just as convenient - 1 inch to 10 feet.

I think the main factor behind Japan going with 1:150 on 9 mm is size. Japanese dwellings tend to be much smaller than even British and European ones (nevermind North America!), and in that context, 1:120 is a *lot* bigger than 1:150. The arrival of 9 mm gauge opened the possibility for railway modelling to become a mass hobby in Japan, but Kato decided that using the international standard of 1:160 would look too wrong, so opted for 1:150, which looks a good bit less wrong, as you still have the impression of narrow gauge.

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)

According to the fr.wikipedia article on the class, So I'd guess your idea would be fitting. I like your bottling plant idea, it'd give a reason for my wine barrel cars to be present, too... By "bi-foudres" do you mean these https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_à_étage_État ?

Well, either way, the locomotive existed and was used in France, the model exists, I have the model, and I might want to do something with it/centred on it, so it's the information about its service that I'm after. The TGV may be iconic, but it's incredibly tangential to steam operations in Brittany...

I think Beckmann's reasons for producing this had little to do with wanting to be able to say they made something French, and more for the sake of having something to sell to the Sammler who buy one of everything... :P Hm, does 25 units running for 20+ years on French rails count as "incredibly tangential"? Okay, perhaps unknown on most of the network, but from what I'm gathering seems they were regulars in pre-war Brittany. And, if only 15 were taken back to Germany during the war, that should mean ten continued on with SNCF after the war, too? I didn't pay for it, though - I've never invested in a French model other than two coaches to build a mid-90s Orient Express consist; I got this as part of an "inheritance" - a member of our local TT club passed away, and we got to have his trains. This was one of the pieces I chose, because it's pretty and it's unique. Off the top of my head, I know the 150Y has been done in TT, 90% sure the 1-230F has been done, and I *think* the 150X has been done by a small producer ("Kleinserienhersteller").

Well, that situation (re Worsley Works) obtains elsewhere in the TT world, even in Germany; full, complete kits are a rarity, most do require some effort and modelling skill.

Worsley Works offer a few British outline etches in 1:120 (Classes 58 and 66), and have said they're completely open to producing their etches in 1:120, the one caveat being that if what you're ordering doesn't fill in a sheet, you'll have to wait a bit until the sheet is filled. As things are looking, eventually I'll be availing myself of their services for a Class 101 and perhaps more. But other etchers would of course also be very welcome. As for 3D printing - if you last looked at it 4, 5 years ago, you must look again - it's advanced light-years over the last little while, and getting to where the results are actually good, with a bit of care and effort.