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WC No, It's a product with an incorrectly scaled superstructure/body casting pleading to be reduced to HO/3.5 mm scale to go with it's natural track gauge. This is the first I have heard of the traction tires (my spell check only wants to use 'tires.' Tiring isn't it.) Is the boiler and firebox no longer a metal casting?

I am waiting for an MN in summer 1947 condition as I could/would have seen it with a diverted boat train going through Penge East. I was a 3 year old and my cousin who babysat me often would take me down the street (Mosslea Road) to the station watch the trains. I don't remember it of course other than a faint vision of a smoking big green machine at speed. I have a Channel Packet packed away until I can clear the bookcase in my train room for display.

Adding that tree line just does a lot to "downsize" the town/village of Little Muddle and make it a more appropriate destination for the size of the branch line.

Real pasties contain skirt beef not sheep and swede is called "turnip" in Cornwall and when included in Cornish pasties. What they do east of the Tamar in the name of "pasty" sometimes (and in Callington all the time ) beggars belief. What can I say. My family came from London, Surrey and Kent....

Oh well! I still have a considerable stash of unbuilt Cambrian kits should I need more for my UK collection to go with my Dapol Class D (Southern Black.) And I'm still waiting for that HO Pennsylvania X31a box car from Rapido that will cost about as much as these wagons with shipping and the depreciated US dollar. Not even on the Rapido (what a misnomer) North American production schedule.

It's a few more miles than 76 miles for me...hmmm. Next April in England is a possibility... It's 36 miles to the nearest airport with a direct flight to Heathrow and will there be a "Great" British Railway carriage to take me to Taunton? Real pasty with chopped lamb and swede? One can only dream!

June 15, 2021 is supposedly going to be liberation day for California. You may be "jabbed" but here I am considered fully "vaxxed" (not faxxed, waxxed or traxxed) and will supposed be given the freedom to roam within California. Always with an abundance of caution. Always pack a mask wherever you go and avoid biker bars. We are only about 50% fully vaxxed (12% additionally partially vaxxed) and the trenchant resistance to vaccination amongst certain political leaners and medically spooked populations is vexatious. Being over 75, I grabbed an early opportunity back in February to get both shots of Pfizer's best. So my Padstow on the Pacific is now Port Costa. The model has slowly progressed in spite of a lot of time spent/wasted on small details and projects that didn't work. I am spending most time on the scenery still building mock-ups and trying to get the terrain around the station just right. Only the double speeder shed known as a tool shed on the Southern Pacific in the foreground has been finalized. I know the water treatment building behind it appears at a slight angle. In the upper right is the mockup of the 175,000 US gallon water tank. The double speeder tool shed and corrugated metal were replaced by the SP sometime between 1950 and 1956 with a simple one speeder tool shed. The speeders and tool sheds were apparently not Maintenance of Way department buildings but Signal and Telegraph maintenance sheds. In the space between the tool sheds and the station building on the left were two telegraph/telephone poles. This was the termination point for joint SP and Western Union (the telegraph company) joint line maintenance. From here to Martinez 4 miles east Western Union lines were strung on a shorter distance climbing over the hills bordering Carquinez strait while SP S&T lines kept to the longer shoreline trackside route. This is a picture of the scene I am trying to duplicate: The line termination double pole setup is shown better in a picture taken of the back of the station Both prototype photos are from the Contra Costa County Historical Society collection. This is the walkway shown in the second photo above: In it's attempt to eradicate most traces of Port Costa about 1962 so it could sell the land for development the Southern Pacific demolished most traces of the structures but left this one remnant. The site remains undeveloped. Taken over by the locals as a sort of mini-park. A lot of my inspiration for small buildings and close in photos comes from the wonderful Little Muddle in this parish. Sometimes it is just my daily dose of Little Muddle that keeps me modeling. Port Costa is a small compact prototype that it is intriguing to replicate.

I would just be glad to get rid of Pocketmags... I just realized I have an account at World of Railways...just not a plus account. Have had it for several years. Do like the https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/news....

With the D coming very soon, I realized I am going to have to source a "chip"/decoder in the US. Next 18 decoders are advertised in the US but I am concerned about the dimensions for the decoder as I would want it to fit in the Dapol decoder tray. Also I am going to be looking for one that will support a keep alive.

Andy How can I get rid of this topic from my unread content selection. I do not want it to show up in my unread content selection. There is no unfollow button unlike normal topics. The follow topic button at the bottom is not pushed to the right. Ken

Little Muddle is a daily respite from the muddled world we live in....

Doesn't sound much use outside of UK.

Muddle on....

Even thought I live in the US, I find this thread the most reliable single source for North American major importer (none manufacture in NA anymore) product announcements.

Emmett Brown....

I am well aware if Andy's offerings. Looking for other possibilities too....

Very, very interesting..... Is/will the 4 mm scale OO track for flat bottom rail (be) Code 75? (I model a period prior to concrete ties. ) Just thinking about adapting the rail components of a kit to Central Valley turnout tie kits for US prototype turnouts. I currently have integrated some Peco Finescale Code 75 turnouts from a former UK prototype layout into my current layout with Peco and Model Engineering Code 70 flex track. Once ballasted the different tie spacings and track fixings are not so obvious. The rail height difference between Code 75 and Code 70 is minimal and not a problem operationally. I also have one instance of a Code 83 turnout to a Code 75 turnout rail transition which have not been a problem. These are all in low speed yard and industrial trackage areas Basically I am looking for a simple way around the Fast Tracks very expensive jigs with soldering frogs and PC board ties to quickly and less expensively assemble turnouts. Now if Wayne wants to go global and offer North American prototype turnout tie configurations.....probably asking too much.

And this reference showed up in the US model press: https://www.krmodels.ca/ with the Merrill and Ring Shay and a small Canadian grain hopper. Doing the reverse of Rapido and opening a Canadian/North American operation? If they do maybe they will get around to that Southern Pacific C-9 Baldwin Consolidation (2-8-0) that has only been made in brass and now retails over $1200 USD if you can find one. (not likely in my remaining lifetime.)

I remember seeing the Churchill funeral van on exhibit at Universal Studio in LA in the 1980's.

7 years...I looked at my Kernow order history and my order was cancelled in 2014.

Like James post above, I live in the US and would love to buy my Thunderbolt sets through Rapido North America without having to do a trans-Atlantic transaction.

Still waiting for a postwar Southern green version as per 1945-47.

I have just edited my previous post to correct an miss understanding. To my knowledge there is no US Code 100 line with US geometry. The "universal" streamline code 100 has been sold widely in the US. Anything is better than the Atlas track whatever code rail it has. Does not look anything other than a plastic version of a tinplate toy train turnout. I will have to dig down into my old track bin to find the Finescale Code 75 Unifrog. Will post pic when I find it.