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I gave up on UK TOY TRAINS because I got fed up with rivet counters fussing that a rivet should be 1.5 microns further left on a loco maintained at Swindon on the 5th October 1911... but if it had been at Wolverhampton on the... trouble was the same people would ask me "Where do I put the signals"? and want a two second answer. [banghead] So I moved to US practice... and... guess what... I can't get a clear answer on the signals! Aaaargh! [%-)] I love all the aspects of model/toy RR, all the history, design, technical... there is so much variety. One thing I want to work out is how to fit a smoke unit into an H0 brass Alco and programme it so that it belches smoke when I wind the throttle up. I've seen this done in 0 Gauge in a Class 47 and it looked superb. Apart from the stink and residue if people want sound why not smoke? Someone here did an MPD (loco facility) using dry ice, miles of plastic tube and tripped valves so that locos appeared to smoke and "blow down" as they worked around the shed and turntable. if that wasn't a "serious model" it was certainly a load of fun! I learnt the "rivet counting" question years ago... short version... at a show we put a loco from the South of England together with a tender from Scotland. Both were scratch built in brass (0 Gauge) great models and unpainted. All afternoon people nit-picked details... no-one noticed that they would never have come within 300 miles of each other. "My toy train is better than yours! So there"! [:P]
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