There's also, I think, Return Of The Pink Panther, which has a lengthy scene involving a prisoner's escape from what is ostensibly a French cross-country train, but which is obviously a C class and some Laminates....
Easy to regauge. 40 minutes' work using Accurascale's Deltic P4 wheels on the original axles.
Alternatively, there's enough meat on the IRM wheels to turn down the width and flange depth on a lathe.
Q-Kits did acquire an unenviable reputation, much like MTK, for the irregularity of their component parts. I remember them mostly for their 1980s attempt at a USATC 0-6-0T kit, at a time when there was absolutely no alternative available.
My ideal list would be:
- one of the Caprotti 400s
- one of the 500s
- one K1
- one K1a
- the sole P1 2-6-2T
- a J26
- possibly the VS
...and obviously CC1. How could you not have that? CC1 would be a massive study aid for alternative fuels.
That Werner Heubeck was one of a number of ex-Nazis-made-good after "The Emergency". They were a different breed alright and some seemed to have this almost suicidally-blasé attitude towards dangerous situations, probably because - after the horrors of a full-scale war - anything else was trivial by comparison.
Any Man City fans will likely remember their legendary goalkeeper Bert Trautmann who famously played the last 15 minutes of a game with what turned out (three days later) to be a broken neck. That fracture could have either killed him or led to paralysis, but he still played on.
Sometimes you just have to stand back and wonder how they did it.