Comments on: Round the Bend at Wominsee

By: Martyn Read

Martyn Read — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:59:38 +0000

The model livery is correct for 158745 and 158746 only from the launch of Wessex Trains (2001?) up till late 2004. But both of those have ploughs on. Does TPM or someone do a plough fairing? If so, no probs I guess…

All the other Wessex 158′s didn’t have the yellow bits on the sides. When they produced this in 00 it was numbered 158746 but without the yellow bits…they have ‘corrected’ the N release, this gives you a unit that is in a rare (relatively) livery, but correct, rather than a common livery, but the wrong numbers as the OO release was.

In OO we’re still waiting for ‘obscure’ liveries like early Network SouthEast on class 50′s…

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:04:36 +0000

Don’t tell me Bachmann have screwed it up again, and released a model in a short-lived non-standard livery that lasted about two weeks

Did the prototype ever actually run in the condition modelled, and if so, when? (I would like mine to resemble the real one circa 2002)

When can we expect 50037 in Laira Engineer’s blue?

By: Martyn Read

Martyn Read — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:08:17 +0000

What’s your thoughts on the ‘corrected livery’ 158 then?

Better because the number and livery actually existed on that unit once?

Worse because that unit was an oddity and has a strange scheme and ploughs which the model doesn’t?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:01:02 +0000

The SBB really *did* paint some bogie open boxes pink! A predicatably short-lived colour scheme; the ones I saw two years ago were more rust and grime than pink. Current livery is grey.

And yes, there were actually *painted* pink. Not red-that-faded, as seen on some British HEAs.

By: Martyn Read

Martyn Read — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:38:32 +0000

Pink open boxes? Now that’s just silly…

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:52:52 +0000

Martyn, pink grain hoppers only run when you’ve been drinking too much Feldschlossen. A bit like the west country yokels who’ve been drinking too much home-made cider and claim to have seen a pink class 31….

OTOH, I do have a couple of pink Eaos bogie opens.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:11:50 +0000

Every modeler of American railroads needs a grain elevator, even if they’re modeling urban settings.

It’s the law.

By: Martyn Read

Martyn Read — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:56:53 +0000

SJ, there were still plenty of folk who would have liked to see you there…

Tim, big grain elavators, you know they make sense. Would hide the back of the layout rather nicely too.

Give you somewhere to park some pink covered hoppers as well.

By: Chris Collins

Chris Collins — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:12:51 +0000

Who missed him then?

I thought the assassins had done a pretty good job in recent months???
)

As for elevators and over eager police, you just have to look at a SD70MAC in the wrong way and yer off to Prison, do not pass go, do not collect yer $200!
)

Cheers

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:09:12 +0000

> Is it true that the Department of Homeland
> Security will cart you off to Guantanamo Bay
> for Un-American Activities if you don’t have
> a grain elevator on your US layout?

Pretty much, although I think it’s actually Walthers who do the carting. You get strapped to a chair and made to listen to Aerosmith’s “Loving An Elevator” until you recant

> you were missed at the DEMU showcase!

I was told they made do with an effigy, and flames spread to an adjacent building at one point