I wanna revive this thread quick now that I've found this lovely tweet with a photo from the Talyllyn Railway -- turns out the refreshment coach was real and was pulled as part of trains, serving refreshments!
https://twitter.com/FlyingKipper03/statu...6157009920
The engine in the picture is, as mentioned in the caption, Douglas, who is Duncan's twin.
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Still haven't painted FFF's Daisy lol sorry my guy (i promise I'll get that airbrush kit soon)
The few of the Revolution rolling stock that I have had in my hand did not impress me much due to the one side fixed coupling and they are way too light. The only piece that I am keeping is the water & oil tender that goes with Lexi and in that, I took apart and added weight for it to roll and track better. Yong Bao would make a great lead engine for a Xmas Layout Train. I didn't know you were into the Revolutions Leyland.
Despite being light, shiny, and generally unpleasant, TMR rolling stock does have one thing going for it. If you were looking for trucks/wagons to paint up for a Narrow Gauge themed layout, they're just the job; their shortness looks rather authentic in this context. That's why I don't mind accumulating them. Plans, plans, plans.....
They do have some neat ideas on their stock and I was thinking along the same lines for customs. In fact I accumulated several of the Smelting Pot cars from the Steamworks Thomas set because I wanted to remove the Pots and install them on regular Plarail/Tomy flat bed cars (like I did for Lexi's tender tanks) but they didn't make them to be easily removed and a lot of cutting plastic would be needed so I scrapped that idea. That yellow woodchipper looks like it could be a candidate to fit on a normal Plarail/Tomy/Trackmaster flat bed though as long as it can easily be separated.