Alcanman

I have to agree ! The light colour weathering wash Just doesn't look right . This is how a weathered 56070 should look. However, each to their own.

I've had exactly the same issue with ballast glue tarnishing rail tops but it easily wiped off with a cloth.

Looks like you're correct. Here is 37027 arriving at Crianlarich and the central section of the snowplough appears to have been removed.

It's a common method used by modellers which I came across in a magazine years ago. You don't need a spray gun, any small plastic spray bottle will do.

I spray them with diluted PVA and then hang them upside down with a clothes peg. Leave to dry overnight and they come out perfectly straight. I also find that they look best if grouped together as you would find in a lineside situation.

Great layout. BR Blue and a north eastern theme. Wonderful! 37008 was at Sunderland South Dock when I visited in 1981. The other photo is, of course, Cambois TMD.

75041 on banking duties at Tebay on 3rd July 1967.

This looks like an interesting project although 6ft is not a lot of space to work with. I built Tees Yard WRD back 2015 which I enjoyed building and operating. Surprising how simply shunting a few wagons can be an immersive experience. Good luck with your layout. I'll be following your progress.

Finally got my modelling mojo back after a few months of inactivity. Fired up my favourite U23B and enjoyed a short switching session. Originally, I had intended to scenic the staging track, however, I never got round to it. Somehow it wasn't working for me so I decided to use a road bridge to hide the staging track. This would also provide space to store spare locos and rolling stock. I dug out a road bridge from an old layout and adapted it to fit. Much happier with this arrangement.

Great to see the progress with the 'Northumberland Line', although to me it will always be the 'Blyth & Tyne'. As I'm old enough to remember when the line closed to passengers 60 years ago under the Beeching Axe this is a welcome and much needed project for the people of South East Northumberland. Here is the original Newsham station. The new station will be located about half a mile to the south.

The Model Centre (TMC) offer a sound fitting service where you can usually chose LegomanBiffo sounds. I can recommend TMC from whom you can pre-order. Here is my Inverness 26032 in action with Legomanbiffo sound. I love it. https://www.themodelcentre.com/hel2625

I'm pleased double pressing F6 worked for you. The first Atlas diesel I bought had a QSI sound decoder. It's well worth looking at the QSI manual to discover the features of their decoders. Atlas stopped using QSI around 2015/6 and have since used ESU Loksound decoders.

It's possible that the decoder has gone into 'disconnect' mode .This is done by double-pressing F9 which you may have accidently done. This allows the engine revs to go up and down with the loco moving. Try revving the engine and i you can do this, then double-press F6 which will activate movement of the loco.

I've also done mixed up UK with Austrian railways and a little bit of photoshop trickery!

Thanks. More pics of the US layout 'West Hazleton Transload' can be found here.