Yes, I had an e-mail from Bachmann this morning, I was wondering if there might be something announced for TINGS but quite honestly wasn't really expecting anything, so very intriguing.

Not long to wait until we find out what it is..

Farish have just announced there will be a new tooling announcement to see at TINGS 2026 and they will preview it today at 12 noon


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN39Z0GeSzw

Not long to wait!!!

Quote from: Curious David on Yesterday at 09:35:28 AMJust seen Pressure a great film about weather/ D Day/ getting your message across!

The trailers look good. It wouldn't surprise me if Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser get nominated for awards

Just seen Pressure a great film about weather/ D Day/ getting your message across!

Anyone interested may also want to read about Arthur Doodson / the Liverpool Bidston observatory / tide prediction machines.

Enjoy, david

@Adam1701D

Do you have any clue as to when our EoIs can be turned into orders please? (I track orders but not EoIs)

Quote from: Richard Taylor on April 15, 2026, 11:09:37 PMI doubt Dapol have retained any lists of precisely what each person expressed an interest in -

@Richard Taylor I don't believe that to be the case, but maybe Adam could confirm this. I'm assuming minds may have changed since the OP so some 'slop' in the system has to exist

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Quote from: Roy L S on September 10, 2026, 12:07:16 PMOn a layout I had many years ago a Seuthe smoke unit was positioned between the rails in the goods yard so that the goods loco when taking a break from shunting got parked over it and the unit was switched on providing an envelope of smoke and "steam" around the loco. It worked OK and seemed to get some positive reactions.

That's close to what I was thinking of trying. Did the smoke/oil have any detrimental effect on the loco?

Good question. I was wondering that, too

The smoke unit was embedded in the baseboard so that the top of the "funnel" protruded between the rails through the ballast meaning that the heater element was a good way from the locos. The goods loco used was typically an old style metal bodied Farish 4F 0-6-0 which had 12 wheel pickup (tender ones added) a crew and a weathering, the smoke unit and smoke produced had zero effect on the loco or any other over the years the layout was in operation.

Quote from: KipperPK on September 10, 2026, 12:23:46 PM

Quote from: Roy L S on September 10, 2026, 12:07:16 PMOn a layout I had many years ago a Seuthe smoke unit was positioned between the rails in the goods yard so that the goods loco when taking a break from shunting got parked over it and the unit was switched on providing an envelope of smoke and "steam" around the loco. It worked OK and seemed to get some positive reactions.

That's close to what I was thinking of trying. Did the smoke/oil have any detrimental effect on the loco?

Good question. I was wondering that, too

Quote from: Roy L S on September 10, 2026, 12:07:16 PMOn a layout I had many years ago a Seuthe smoke unit was positioned between the rails in the goods yard so that the goods loco when taking a break from shunting got parked over it and the unit was switched on providing an envelope of smoke and "steam" around the loco. It worked OK and seemed to get some positive reactions.

That's close to what I was thinking of trying. Did the smoke/oil have any detrimental effect on the loco?

As a kid I think I used to get high on it coming from my Triang locomotives!

On a layout I had many years ago a Seuthe smoke unit was positioned between the rails in the goods yard so that the goods loco when taking a break from shunting got parked over it and the unit was switched on providing an envelope of smoke and "steam" around the loco. It worked OK and seemed to get some positive reactions.