I know what you mean OTR it is one of the all time classics and probably the first model loco that many a child had through the 50's to 90's when it changed to a cheaper to manufacture model.
They are also quite cool real life loco's too
You pretty much summed the model up there for me Super, its a bit of a mystery to me while these days models (at least OO in the UK) are made without smoke generators. Back in the day this was made it was quite a common thing to buy them with manufacturer's fitted smoke units. I don't know if they are not fitted as standard now for cost reasons (although I can't see they would be that expensive in bulk) or probably more likely health and safety reasons - in case little Johnny drinks the smoke oil or something!!
As for headlights, unlike the USA virtually no UK outline steam trains had headlights or tail lights, instead they had the portable little lamps like you see sometimes modelled on Thomas etc... These were not so much to allow the driver to see where he was going, but to allow signal boxes, other loco's to see the loco coming. It was only really with the introduction of Electric and Diesel trains that they started fitting headlights to the UK trains
The idea of display cases is one I've considered, I do already have a couple of standalone glass display cabinets, but they are generally used to display dragons, wizards and similar collectibles, but maybe I could do a rota system
They are also quite cool real life loco's too
(06-12-2018, 12:05 AM)Super Wrote: Thats cool and so vintage too. Nice that it is equipped for its own smoke. The rivets on the smoke box look great but I don't see any others and there is no headlight. Is this true to the real ones and only ran in the daylight hours?
Nigels, have you thought of getting some train display shelves that can mount to a wall or a stand alone? One that would have clear acrylic on the front to keep out the dust? You have so many beautiful engines that its a pity they are all stuck and stacked in there boxes.
You pretty much summed the model up there for me Super, its a bit of a mystery to me while these days models (at least OO in the UK) are made without smoke generators. Back in the day this was made it was quite a common thing to buy them with manufacturer's fitted smoke units. I don't know if they are not fitted as standard now for cost reasons (although I can't see they would be that expensive in bulk) or probably more likely health and safety reasons - in case little Johnny drinks the smoke oil or something!!
As for headlights, unlike the USA virtually no UK outline steam trains had headlights or tail lights, instead they had the portable little lamps like you see sometimes modelled on Thomas etc... These were not so much to allow the driver to see where he was going, but to allow signal boxes, other loco's to see the loco coming. It was only really with the introduction of Electric and Diesel trains that they started fitting headlights to the UK trains
The idea of display cases is one I've considered, I do already have a couple of standalone glass display cabinets, but they are generally used to display dragons, wizards and similar collectibles, but maybe I could do a rota system
Happily collecting things all my life...
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2018, 08:30 PM by Nigels.)
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