Mister No's Pics & Vids

After winning the Grand Race, Etienne returned to France, just before the holidays!
The Parisian stairs are decorated and everything is ready for another French Christmas!
And, as we can see, Sir Topham Hatt is also in Paris, in Christmas shopping!

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Wow...I love the winter Holiday setting on the Layout and the new back drop and Lemax Parisian Stairs are beautiful

...and you have a lovely new Christmassy avatar!

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Love the new Tuscany Area  Itailian Street is that also Lemax?

(Almost) everything is Lemax. So far, you have seen the Yorkshire Pub, the Tannenbaum Clock Tower (the clock is very accurate, so I use it as ... a clock too. I'm actually surprised that for a long time I haven't looked at a clock that has real hands, not digital numbers!), the five "facades", as they call them: the English Lane and  Houses on Hills (they appeared in the Fujikyu Thomas Land Train video), the Parisian Stairs (for Etienne), Tuscany Hills and the Venice Canal Shops (for Gina & Lorenzo). They are all made in China.

All the green snowy trees are also Lemax, and the snow itself (in Etienne's video) is the American Christmas Snow produced by FloraCraft Corporation, Ludington, Michigan (and it's made in the USA).

There is still one Lemax building that will be revealed soon, namely the church (it will be St. Stephen's Cathedral with beautiful stained glass windows), and two more lovely Lemax "animated" elements...

This is in a way a sequel to my video on Pink Rosie.

A whole class of the „Jugoslavenske željeznice“ (JŽ; Yugoslavian Railways) - class 62 - was formed of 106 ex-United States Army Transportation Corps S100 Class 0-6-0T steam locomotives, surplus after the Second World War. Apparently they proved good, because  about 90 very similar examples were then built locally, by the company "Đuro Đaković" of Slavonski Brod, Croatia between 1952 and 1961.

These Yugoslav-built examples differ in minor details, but principally the use of plate frames instead of bar frames, resulting in a higher boiler pitch. This in turn leads to distinct shoulder on the steam pipes (the American-built examples having straight steam pipes) and smaller domes which have a flat top, so they are not higher than the cab roof.

Several of these engines survive, but one 62-669, built in 1960 was bought by a preservation group in England and has been modified to resemble a Southern Railway USA class, and become "No. 30075", one higher than the last British Railways example. Another one has since followed:
62-669 (built 1960) Shillingstone Railway Project "30075"
62-521 (built 1954) Shillingstone Railway Project "30076"

One beautifully decorated and painted "Rosie" (actually JŽ 62-084) is on display at the station in Gračac, Croatia, and appears at the end of this video.

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Is that another new Lemax building where Mr Topham Hatt is standing?

Love the Special Effects of snow starting at the 2:47 minute mark

I believe I used that building (Lemax "Houses on a Hill" – SKU#: 05617) before, but I changed its position... I thought it would be a nice home for Sir Topham Hatt! One new building (St. Stephen's Cathedral) is coming up in the Saturday video, though!

Snow is just an effect from the editing app (youcut) that I have on my phone, but I think it's really charming, because it seems that is has some depth (not just white dots in front of the video)...