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Similar thing happened to the original 1981 Hornby APT. Values for full sets, individual cars and even spares on eBay ran quite high for a long time. Then Hornby released their 21st century model a few years ago, and values of the 1981 model are on the floor as a result.

The electric drill is an acknowledged emergency method for all oleopneumatic Citroëns

I think OttoMobile (or AutoArt) also produced 1:18 models of my car, the Citroën CX. I've never bought any of these as they were never offered with a right-hand-drive interior. To my eyes, left-hand-drive just looks wrong.

That one is insanity

Nanotechnology potentially makes this possible

What did your CSB measurements come out as?

If you have any Loctite 603 (or even the older 601 if it hasn't gone off), that tends to set much harder than plain superglue.

Did the Tramore line have any signals as such? I don't remember any in the photos I've seen....

One of these, albeit standard gauge rather than Irish standard, was seen on a YouTube video recently, working on a UK preserved line (think it was the Lavender Line at Isfield). Remarkable little machine.

I think one of the preserved USATC S160s (no.2253) has recently been converted to oil firing, so hopefully there'll be some appropriate exhaust. Oil firing can be clean - the Swiss ex-Kriegslok 52.8055 was converted years ago by DLM in Winterthur and is said to be so efficient that it only requires one person to act as both driver and fireman, whilst the cab interior rarely if ever gets dirty. Thing is, no other mainline standard gauge engine seems to have followed the DLM techniques for improved efficiency.

I wonder what will happen once the eco-mentals ban coal entirely. What will the RPSI burn instead? Turf? Now there's a thought....

To misquote Father Dougal: "These engines looked black, but when I looked closely, they were actually a very very very very very very very very very very very dark grey...."

We've waited that long, a few more weeks won't kill us, so.

Usually steam heat would have been supplied to buildings. Sometimes stationary boilers weren't actually stationary; if engines were still capable of moving under their own power then they could supply steam for carriage-warming duties. Couplings would generally be removed so that they would be unable to haul stock.

Might yield some useful spares.

I'm just having a look at the bare bogie frames and trying to work out where to modify them for CSB springs....

Anything that can recreate the preserved stock gets a "yes" from me

If that can build either of the preserved pair of coaches, count me in for an etch set!

Put a reserve of a grand and a half on it

I suspect there might have been a touch of the oul shilling going on

Jaysus, I forgot the feckin' invoice!! Let me go and pay that off now....

I wonder what that might have in the way of drawings?

I put my name down for one. Looks like I was the only one.

How long have you got?

Do we have any information on the wheel diameters?