Hi guy's,

Has anyone else had issues trying to view RMweb today?

Quote from: Newportnobby on January 09, 2026, 09:52:04 AM

Quote from: AndyRA on January 08, 2026, 12:26:35 PM

@AndyRA Wow, Andy I guessed you'd have a lot of locos but didn't realise you'd employed a guard cat to keep an eye on them!

He also helps to select the next Loco to run.  

Quote from: icairns on January 09, 2026, 02:22:14 AM

Quote from: Roy L S on January 08, 2026, 11:47:23 PMand my kit-built 60532 "Blue Peter" (a resin kit but I can't remember by who),

Roy:

I think the resin kit for your Class A2 Blue Peter model was probably manufactured by a company called Fifty-Six and a Half Inch Model Railways (long since out of business). 

I bought the same resin kit (but from a different supplier) but never got it past the primer stage before GF came out with their A1 and A2 models.

Ian

Hi Ian

Yes, that was it, I believe the locos were also made ready to run by a company called "Pro Models" (not sure what googling it would come up with and I do not intend to find out ). Mine languished in primer too for a long time but I did finish it, a loco I did a pretty decent job of if I say so myself.



The loco I am probably proudest of is B1 "Gnu", this Langley kit sits on the much better BachFarish A3 chassis, the airbrushing was done by my ex (a very capable modeller - better than me) I did the lining and lettering right down to the power classification and Route Availability which was pretty eyeball straining!



Both locos were made well before there was any prospect of either being done as a RTR model, at a time where if you wanted something that wasn't available you got on and had a go, or didn't have one! It is easy to forget just how spoiled we are for RTR models these days...

Regards

Roy

Quote from: AndyRA on January 08, 2026, 12:26:35 PM

@AndyRA Wow, Andy I guessed you'd have a lot of locos but didn't realise you'd employed a guard cat to keep an eye on them!

I'm getting so much flak from the blokes at the bowlo. Well, are you an Aussie or a Pommy?   

I did think that a post I saw on the interweb was interesting, though.

"Head has not changed his game for the role, but perhaps Test cricket has steadily bent itself into his preferred shape" 

Quote from: Bob G on January 08, 2026, 09:41:04 AMI claim the fifth amendment... Oh and did you know N gauge storage takes up 1/8th the volume of OO? So you can have 8 times as many trains in N as you can in OO for the same storage space.

 

So N is vastly more expensive than OO if storage space is the limitation on loco numbers. If layout area is the limitation, then N is only 4 times more expensive than OO.

My locos are models from 3 continents (UK, North America, and Australia) across several time eras covering steam and diesels, but I only have about 55 locos in total  . I thought that I had a lot, but am really put to shame by quite a few others on this forum. But since starting in N scale in about 1978, I admit to having had in my hands another 25 or so locos that I have since sold on for various reasons.

Webbo   

Quote from: Roy L S on January 08, 2026, 11:47:23 PMand my kit-built 60532 "Blue Peter" (a resin kit but I can't remember by who),

Roy:

I think the resin kit for your Class A2 Blue Peter model was probably manufactured by a company called Fifty-Six and a Half Inch Model Railways (long since out of business). 

I bought the same resin kit (but from a different supplier) but never got it past the primer stage before GF came out with their A1 and A2 models.

Ian

all I will admit to is:
more than I need, but less than I want.

The simple honest truth is I don't know, but I have been modelling in N for a long time so it is a substantial number.

Most are now DCC (many sound fitted), but I have kept some of the more treasured analogue models such as my kit built Langley B1 61018 "Gnu" which runs on a Bachmann/Farish A3 chassis, and my kit-built 60532 "Blue Peter" (a resin kit but I can't remember by who), two Peco jubilees repainted into BR livery by the late and sadly missed Fred Hempsall (who also built me a Foxhunter A1 "Flamboyant" which I still have). there is also my first V2 converted (butchered) from a Farish A3 with scratch-built tender on their LMS chassis. I also have a few very early Farish locos like the original 94xx and Holden Tank. Oh, and maybe 8 Union Mills locos, only one of which has had the DCC treatment (a J38).

It must be some kind of illness I think! 

Roy

Just the 189 for me.
And the 44 DMU/EMUs
Which don't include the 13 HSTs