I wonder if you could hook up the levers to the points on a model railway... 

At that price, yes!!!

Fancy living in a signal box 

https://auction.paulfosh.com/lot/details/189177

And lo it came to pass that Arran sent forth his new wares and his people rejoiced and were happy...

Quote from: Papyrus on Yesterday at 05:38:18 PMQuite why so many ended up shedded here is a mystery.

Haven't you missed out a letter "r" there?

 

It's some years since I converted a Brit to the Duke, but I'm pretty certain the double chimney was from BHE. It came as part of a twin pack of some sort, possibly 9F detailing kit?

Martyn

Quote from: Papyrus on Yesterday at 05:38:18 PMTalking of the DoG, does anybody know of a source for a double chimney? N Brass is no more, of course, and BHE don't do them.

Cheers,

Chris

There used to be a double chimney kit for the Peco jubilee. Also isn't there a current Farish loco with a double chimney? Farish spares are pretty good source of bits. Failing that a dead Dapol 9F?

Bob

Meanwhile, here is an undercover peek inside the ramshackle, inefficient works that is SPAM Lindfield:



Currently undergoing what is laughingly referred to here as 'maintenance' are no less than four Britannias. Quite why so many ended up shedded here is a mystery. Boudicca Boadicea in the box at the back is the one with the broken crank pin, but otherwise runs fine. She is going to have a chassis exchange with the next in line, Duke of Gloucester, who can cope with a modified motion. His chassis is currently a non-runner but the Chief Mechanical Eejit thinks it is only detached/missing wires. He (the Dook, that is...) also has a missing nameplate and chimney. Third in line is Firth of Forth, running status unknown, which is going to become Hereward the Wake. Finally, there is John of Gaunt. He is OK apart from the fact that he also is missing a nameplate and needs new traction tyres. The CME is losing brain cells and there are none left in the spares box but he's coping with the stress.

Talking of the DoG, does anybody know of a source for a double chimney? N Brass is no more, of course, and BHE don't do them.

Cheers,

Chris

If you do need vinyl style sides for old coaches and are willing to draw up your own loads of online and local printshops can do vinyl cut stickers with transparency these days and usually with really quite good alignment (you still fill the uncut window bits with the window frame colour and extend the colour out a bit past all the cut points)

So if you are ok with some drawing tools it's quite possible to do without actually owning any machinery.

Or you could just do the job properly. You don't need a giant energy sucking guess the next word machine in order to put the correct date on a notice.

In this case though it looks like someone's nonsense newsbot spewing delusions not the company in question. Which is fairly typical and a good reason why you don't use AI for such things. If you need delusional news there's a wide choice available on TV.