Horsetan

Common way to deal with Cartazzi trailing trucks, keeping the frames fixed in place as they should be.

Anywhere on the Swiss rail network, if only to experience services that just... work.

I feel a little unwell after reading that....

At the end of the day, Irish transport policy seems much keener on roads than it is on railways.

....and you can cram so much more of the Irish landscape into the available space as well.

Looks like Hollywood Foundry's product.

It happens.

Grand. Thanks There's a very long-term Swiss-German HO project I have in mind, which uses this colour.

Is there a RAL colour code for it?

They'll be dining out on this one for years to come.

Spreading yourself?

Yes, I wouldn't be without mine!

Interesting. The build article seemed to think it came with castings.....in which case, where did the builder get them from?

Possible replacement for faulty Heljan motors, for example. Or cheap alternative to Mashima for kits. Some Mitsumis come with a worm (pitch unknown), so that will need to be extracted if you're using your own preferred geartrain.

4-4-0s generally need all the help they can get, as do 0-4-4Ts.

Maxons are very strong motors. Expensive, but strong. Alternatives are Escap and Faulhaber. More weight?

Let me know when you start hallucinating.

Dunno if this will show up, but here goes: This is a blown-up crop of the original photo, the copyright of which belongs to SLS. There's also six rivets on the door itself, in a hexagon formation.

Reported on here as well

Wow, the corrosion really has got into that cab door.....

It might actually be 35 rivets because there are a couple that seem to be hidden by the smokebox door hinges. I've taken a close-up photo of the original photo, and will see if I can blow it up even more to verify the count.

I make it 33 visible rivets on 560's smokebox front.....so far.

If you look at the rivets on the smokebox front of 560, and then try to line them up with the adjacent rivets on the smokebox wrapper (a bit like "joining the dots"), what you get is a zig-zag pattern, hence staggered. Most people won't be too fussed about this, and that's fine, but it is something I noticed and since I have a rivet press I might as well give it some proper work to do! GSR/CIE really were great believers in rivets - smokeboxes were absolutely covered in them, and it can be a total pain in the **** when you're trying to get it right. The other thing I have to try to do is calculate how many rivets there are around the smokebox front of 560.