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Just spent 6 hours looking at a spot on the ceiling trying not to think and to get to sleep with no luck, welcome to hour 68ish of the manic side of things.

i used to live in one of the houses in that picture , just not in the 80's when there was sights like that to see, boring 90's nothing but sprinters and hst's and the aircraft fuel tank train every week thanks for posting that

Could anyone shed any light on how soon the chassis that it's mentioned high level models will be making to go with the austerity 0-6-0 body kit that NB models do will be avalable? http://www.nbmodels.com/locokits.asp can find the body kit there if anyone wanted to see it.

Have one kicking about somewhere that I repainted with pretty much the same idea of modelling a preserved railway as you. gave it an all over coat of crimson on the body frames and wheels with black running plates, handrails, chimney ect. painting the frames and wheels really helps them look the part. name plates are good to, theres a few that have been named after entering preservation. most of them have been vacume fitted and some steam heat fitted since which they dont have normaly if they are purely industrial ones.

coal capacity is a downfall of industrial locos . I used to help out at the Caledonian railway in Brechin back when there was only the barclay 0-4-0 running we would have to fill up a couple of dust bins with coal in the time between trips and refuel after each outing, doesn't help sore backs to have to lift up 8 or so dustbins of coal and tip them into the bunkers inside the cab. more on subject they are another smallish line that used and still does make heavy use of industrial locos last i knew there was 3 austerity 0-6-0s, 2 peckett 0-6-0s and an 0-4-0 a barclay 0-6-0 and 0-4-0. wonderfull railway and well worth a visit.

provided the right pushpull set is preserved I love these locos. they are a big part of memories of steam in my case cause i'm not old enough to have seen steam in regular mainline service most of my early memories of it are of the common sight of an austerity 0-6-0 pulling a few mk1's they would also have been some of the last steam loco's working in the UK I imagine though not on the mainline. in many ways i prefer the industrial/shunting loco to the mainline without them there would have been no coal trains for bigger fancier engines to pull. no coal to keep them engines fired either. no coal shunted around to make the power in coal fired power stations to power overhead electric lines. its fair to say that without them and their predecesors shunting away we wouldn't have any of the big loco's everyone laveshes so much attention on. long live the austerity 0-6-0

IAM - demain c'est loin and what a wonderfull mess.

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