I'm pretty sure my Arnold Baldwin VO-1000 switcher in NH black and red livery belongs in SPAM. It is the early version, without handrails, Cat.No.0261





However, I am not sure about this Japanese C56. I understand it dates from 1982 but by Japanese standards this is still very early for N Gauge. The manufacturer was Nakamura Precision (Nakamura Seimitsu; Nakasei) who are better known for HO models. I wonder if this was one of a series, or planned series, judging from the card that was within the loco's box:



This C56 in N (1:150) and has a considerable weight thanks to its metal body. It runs well by contemporary Farish standards but not a patch on the silky smooth Kato equivalent recently released (illustrated in the bottom photo).





Here's the modern Kato equivalent; definitely not a SPAM member:

Hi Guys 

Hope that everyone is ok?

Many of you will know that I have done a few editons of this Magazine/Booklet & I really aprecate all the comments and feedback that I have had, so thank you for that.

Recently I have been thinking about producing the next edition and the amount of time and effort that it takes to refresh this booklet. Because of this, I'm considering publishing the next edition via Amazon & Kindle Direct Publishing.

I really don't like the idea of doing this, but unforunatly I can't justify the time/effort that is needed to this up to date.

At present, this is (basically) just a list of avalible/unavalible products, so I'm asking what would you want to be included in future addition that would make the 'paywall' worth it.

Please let me know either on here or PM what you would like to see in addition to the product list. (Some of the ideas I've had would be something like protype formations from different times; possible locations to model; more specific histories of the main lines and what locos/units would be seen on them.) 

Look forward to your replies,

Stu

I'm all for expressing appreciation 

Things that I think RevolutioN does really well...

Communication with its audience and customers (forums, newsletter, presence at shows, spontaneous videos at shows, the Jeremy Vine show etc).

Quality products - not all within my modelling areas of interest (as I would expect) but in general we expect and receive high quality products that satisfy a large number of modellers (for myself the class 128 DPU and LT 1938 D Stock were very well received).

Areas for improvement - I know that the business model may not support this in the same way that it does for Bachmann and possibly others but shorter time to market after announcement would be a welcome improvement. e.g. Class 313s 6/7 years, Class 120s currently at 4 years with no samples.

But overall very appreciative of the output from RevolutioN.

Flu jab due this morning was cancelled an hour before the time. Guess someone at the pharmacy didn't turn up for work this morning, maybe due to being ill with the flu

That I didn't realise. That's very interesting, and would definitely give me more conifdence in trying the train elevator.

Proses are part of Bachmann.

https://www.bachmann.co.uk/category/model-railway/proses

Actually there were two large Rainbow Lorikeets going for the crumbs we'd dropped!

From the outside looking in, the Nelevator issue was that they were essentially a tiny cottage industry, unable, or unwilling to upscale production who produced a remarkeable product that proved more popular than they expected. Operational issues of the device didn't help. Maybe they should have paused production, and deposit taking, & ironed out the issues.
I seem to recall communication with customers wasn't great either.

There is most definitely a market for such a device. Proses are at least an established company who, I'd like to think, has enough nouse, financial stability & manpower to achieve where others have failed.

Sorry George, you can't fool us, VB's under the table!

Happy birthday to her whatever her name is

Food looks more scrumptious than mac d's