Quote from: Reptilian Feline on June 08, 2021, 11:30:14 PM

Quote from: AlexanderJesse on June 08, 2021, 10:43:49 PM
Why convert it? ... say it's an american prototype/test mule

An American prototype on a branch line in north Yorkshire during WW2? Can't see how that would fit... not really.

Just because there is no textbook saying it happened, it could still be that some tests were made. Or because during training the usafdestroyed a loco, the branch line got a replacement from the usra contingent...
Or because you bend the history a bit to make it Happen... rule 1...

Quote from: AlexanderJesse on June 08, 2021, 10:43:49 PM
Why convert it? ... say it's an american prototype/test mule

Is/was there anything American that looked like a GWR Manor? An S160 definitely doesn't.

It'd be better to pretend that the 1948 exchange trials were repeated a few years later for smaller locos/lines - ignoring the fact that by the time the later BR livery the BR Standard classes were well in production.

Or simply model it as a heritage railway where pretty well anything goes, and sometimes does 

Quote from: AlexanderJesse on June 09, 2021, 12:25:36 AM

Quote from: Reptilian Feline on June 08, 2021, 11:30:14 PM

Quote from: AlexanderJesse on June 08, 2021, 10:43:49 PM
Why convert it? ... say it's an american prototype/test mule

An American prototype on a branch line in north Yorkshire during WW2? Can't see how that would fit... not really.

Just because there is no textbook saying it happened, it could still be that some tests were made. Or because during training the usafdestroyed a loco, the branch line got a replacement from the usra contingent...
Or because you bend the history a bit to make it Happen... rule 1...

I always find this the most annoying use of 'rule 1'. The OP has stated in several threads her intention to use locally sourced models and convert them to more geographically and temporally appropriate models for her chosen prototype. "Just say it's rule 1" is really unhelpful. Why not buy OO gauge and say they've invented a enlarging ray?! Of course there's nothing wrong with running whatever you want, but there's also nothing wrong with wanting to do things right.

Quote from: njee20 on June 09, 2021, 07:34:43 AM

Quote from: AlexanderJesse on June 09, 2021, 12:25:36 AM

Quote from: Reptilian Feline on June 08, 2021, 11:30:14 PM

Quote from: AlexanderJesse on June 08, 2021, 10:43:49 PM
Why convert it? ... say it's an american prototype/test mule

An American prototype on a branch line in north Yorkshire during WW2? Can't see how that would fit... not really.

Just because there is no textbook saying it happened, it could still be that some tests were made. Or because during training the usafdestroyed a loco, the branch line got a replacement from the usra contingent...
Or because you bend the history a bit to make it Happen... rule 1...

I always find this the most annoying use of 'rule 1'. The OP has stated in several threads her intention to use locally sourced models and convert them to more geographically and temporally appropriate models for her chosen prototype. "Just say it's rule 1" is really unhelpful. Why not buy OO gauge and say they've invented a enlarging ray?! Of course there's nothing wrong with running whatever you want, but there's also nothing wrong with wanting to do things right.

Thank you!
As a side note on the S160 US loco, it looks like my Minitrix express loco would fit the bill, from a quick look... the tender and wheels match.

That said...

I don't mind bending reality a little... my first idea of a layout was a museum railway on a far away planet where the trees where purple and the architecture hexagonal. I soon lost interest in that idea though.

I will run my pretty little Fleishmann steam shunter on the layout, just for the pleasure of running it, but it won't have a permanent spot there, unless I can give it a more fitting body. It's an 0-8-0 with tiny wheels, as if it was an 8-0-0.

I like things to be as close as possible to a reality that could have been... kind of like the fictional place in a movie or a TV show... looks real, never happened, kind of thing. I just spent a lot of time finding out the proper codes for the LNER 1937 station livery, so the downloaded goods shed will have the proper colours, the right brick texture, and not look so clipart-ish. If I wanted it easy, I'd buy a Swedish starter set, and play trains on the living room floor.