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I think I'll most probably lay out some track on the floor in the weekend Tim and give No:8 a shake down run. Buying No:8 was a complete punt really, I had no idea what the Heritage locos were like, but with its wheel arrangement, crisply cast metal rather than plastic parallel boiler, the fact that it was a modernised Baldwin-like wood burner with rivetted steel cab and electric headlight, but still with original slide valves, positively shrieked 'logging lokey' at me. In a word I had to have it :-) <br />In some ways the Heritage locos seem to share some similarity of outline with the Bachman 2-6-0 Mining Moguls which is another loco I have my sights on, - only the coal firing would have to go. In New Zealand logging lokeys always burned slab wood from the sawmill and while I might not be closely or exactly following NZ practice I do want to make sure my lokeys are burning the right fuel! <br />I actually found out the other day that 'G' folk here in New Zealand who are closely following NZ practice use 1:24 scale which gives them a scale 3ft 6" track gauge, but if I was to go totally for correctly modelling NZ logging in the bush I couldn't have so many lovely small Baldwins. Sooooooo I'm going to stick with 1:20.3 scale for 3ft gauge 'cause it's bigger and I like it :-) <br /> <br />Annie
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