Anyone out there can you give any info on where I can purchase an on board camera in a van for my layout.

I also have an old Minitrix A4, a present from Mrs Grumbeast from more than a few years ago.  It still runs beautifully but I have no box (it was another surprise find, spotted by her at the back of a dark cupboard in a store in Exeter on a visit back to the UK in the 90s)

I know they aren't the most accurate but I think they do capture the overall look of the A4 well enough and I love it!

On vacation in Charleston, SC. Had one big lift planned this week. Planned my morning around this: showed up at the hours posted on Facebook and Website.

Closed!! Not a word,note... nothing.

  

Quote from: Newportnobby on May 14, 2026, 12:12:35 PMThanks Steven, but would they have got as far as the WR and SR?

I don't want to speak for Steven B but if a wagon is "Common User" it will go to whatever destination its load takes it regardless of company or region.

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Thanks Steven, but would they have got as far as the WR and SR?

I love the way this forum loves to speculate rather than asking the manufacturer the question.

From Peco: There's no change to the design of the coupling pocket from the previous wagons using this chassis.

@Newportnobby Single bolster wagons became common user in 1922. They'd have been seen all over the country as required.

Even before that date loads wouldn't be transferred from LNER wagons to LMS ones just because the load crossed the Pennines - the wagon would have completed the full journey and been sent back empty as soon as possible.

I'd like a couple of bolster wagons but not NE, I can't justify them being so far 'out of territory' so will have to wait and see whether they do a bauxite BR version.
I did have a couple of Minitrix ones some years ago but for some reason I sold them

I still have a Minitrix A3 "Flying Scotsman" and A4 "Mallard" bought new in the late 80s so in the "jewel case" type box. Neither have been much used so both still in decent nick (a tiny bit of cosmetic "edgewear") and still run well. I have no idea why I kept them so long, neither is a very good representation of the real loco in model form, I guess it is a nostalgia thing  . 

I'm not intentionally being negative, but if Peco stays true to form, I don't think it will happen.

Let's hope I'm proved wrong!