Horsetan

You'd need to find out who supplies the factory in China with its paints. Good luck with that.

I'd be surprised if the chassis has been retooled already.

Probably the best one yet, albeit the centre window on each cab end looks a bit mad.

I have succumbed and booked a pack. It occurred to me that I seem to have quite a lot of IRM stuff to look forward to......

This is exactly the type of thing.

What I was driving at was that, if you designed the layout along the same principles as the Berlin Anhalter project, you would (or should) end up with a lengthy route arranged in a sort of oval spiral. In the space you have available to you, I'd say this is well worth having a go. It would achieve the two or three levels you want in an unbroken run. This would give you the sensation of seeing the trains appear to travel from station to station, running through open sections of line, just as they do when FREMO enthusiasts have a massive get-together and connect loads of different modules together to form a network.

Alternatively, instead of the merry-go-round ovals shown in the original plans, if he builds it as a relaxed spiral end-to-end, the eventual route would be more realistic whilst making his stock actually work for its living. It would be a bit like having FREMO modules all running together at home.

If you do a search on YouTube for BBM Berliner Anhalter Bahnhof, the creator of this quite frankly massive HO layout has built the thing on at least two, possibly three, levels to portray some of the 1930s route between Berlin and Basel, plus an extension to represent the journey to Milan (I think), so the locomotives really do have to work up the gradients. Looks like at least half a lifetime's work.

I expect some of those will turn up on eBay at a significant markup.

Sold out already, apparently. Two hours is a long time in Accurascale pre-orders.

Booked the Railfreight Construction one. Will be interesting to compare it to the very old ex-Triang 31 body I have and see how far we have come in the last 50 years.

I just like the way the roof over the left-hand cab has more overhang than all the others, hence the noticeable shadow.

The question you have to ask yourself is: "Do I feel lucky?"

I seem to recall that MSTS worked alright on Win7 and 8/8.1 when my previous PC was running it. I still have the original discs and packaging for both the Irish add-ons. North was quite accomplished for its day, but South struck me as being unfinished, especially once you got into Dublin. I'm not sure if Irish routes will be covered again for the existing TS/TSW generation. I have some of the Swiss routes (RhB particularly) and the general look and feel of these are streets ahead of what was possible on MSTS.

He'd probably get done by Hornby