Does anyone make 1/72nd train kits?

[sideshowbob9]

and at the rear an unknown A4 in unlined Standard Green.

UNKNOWN!  She's 60009 Union of South Africa and easily the best of the bunch! I've been behind her twice on the mainline so can back that assertion. Oh and she's very much lined but is usually worked very hard and thus quite dirty. After the York-King's X run I was on she was practicaly black!

She is my personification of a caged tiger and can't wait to have her back in 2011!  

Just setting the record straight is all.

Back on thread, the early WCML electrics were intially a powder blue: http://www.aclocogroup.co.uk/gallerypic.php?pic=20000730_10

Altough I did buy an old Triang Class 81 that someone had whiffed into the mixed-traffic black of the Woodhead electrics: http://www.freefoto.com/images/24/54/24_54_17---EM2-BR-27000-Electra-at-RailFest-2004_web.jpg

[PR19_Kit]

UNKNOWN!  She's 60009 Union of South Africa and easily the best of the bunch! I've been behind her twice on the mainline so can back that assertion. Oh and she's very much lined but is usually worked very hard and thus quite dirty. After the York-King's X run I was on she was practicaly black!

Unknown insofar as I was unable to read the nameplate on the lo-res piccie............. <sigh>

[sideshowbob9]

^ Sorry the   was meant to translate as "tut tut" with tongue firmly in cheek as opposed to a real criticism. Sarcasm translates to text poorly!

What I don't apologise for is being a vehement fan of the A4!  

[PR19_Kit]

I agree about A4s, cracking locos indeed.

When I lived at RAF Topcliffe, aged around 8 or 9, my Mum and I went down to London to see my Nanna, and we travelled on an NE Region train behind the A4 'Silver Fox', complete with the fox on the side! Apparently I was almsot speechless whan it ran past us waiting on the platform. 

I was comparing the shape of 'Mallard' with the JNT Shin Kansen Type 0 at the NRM last week, and the A4 just had to be better aerodynamically if it wasn't for the buffers and coupler etc.

[McGreig]

I think there were some around Glasgow too

Indeed there were. Cue irrelevant railway trivia which probably doesn't really help with Rat's original query - - -

Class 303 Electric Multiple Units were introduced in 1960, and they were painted blue (not unlike the colour in Narses' Mallard pic). Showing their usual stunning wit and originality, Glaswegians called them "The Blue Trains" , a name that survived their repainting into the hideous Strathclyde Passenger Transport Orange in the mid-Eighties. And they're the only trains that I know of that had to have their vestibule floors strengthened to stand up to the wear and tear of stilleto heels - - -

[sideshowbob9]

.....the A4 'Silver Fox', complete with the fox on the side! Apparently I was almsot speechless whan it ran past us waiting on the platform.

As would I have been! A pity I was born too late.

..the hideous Strathclyde Passenger Transport Orange....

Rather liked that scheme myself. Better than the Network South-East scheme I grew up with!

[Thorvic]

Speaking of 1/72 Train kits, Mach2 do a German Armoured Train set with an additional addon pack of the doubled up carriages to complete the full complement of carriages (Buts its one hell of a price for a limited run injection moulded kit !!)

Now for those of you who liked the Hasegawa and Hobbyboss Karl Mortars and Leopold Railway Gun kits, Hobby boss are doing the 1/72nd Dora railway gun !!!!! Which should be a bit more practical than the 1/35th giant mionster kit that comes in a box the size of a tea chest !!!!.

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[PR19_Kit]

A 1/72 Dora? Strewth....

Didn't that thing have to run on TWO tracks side by side? Which always made me wonder how the devil they got it to the firing position in the first place!

Digressing a trifle, my last employers European head office was in Berlin, and they sold a MONSTER test system to a testing laboratory in Berlin who wanted to test the 'cables' they used to moor oil rigs. 'Cables' to them meant a ruddy great chain to you and me, and the links for these things were about 2ft in dia, that's the round bit of the link, not across the link from side to side.

Needless to say the actuator to test these chain links was huge, and it could not be made in Berlin as there wasn't a large enough milling machine in the whole city to do the job, so they had it made in Cologne and it was brought in by train (ahah NOW we get to the point of the story....) The actuator was about 15 ft and dia and about 7 ft high so it was brought in on a flat car all the way through the then DDR, and it took WEEKS to get the paperwork sorted out as they had to close the opposite line as the actuator fouled the loading gauge for trains coming the other way!

As it was it had to be mounted offset on the flat car, and they had to remove some of the signal gantries etc on the route. All in all it took well over a week to get the thing into Berlin. After that I had the fun task of fitting the seals to the actuator's piston, and that took me about a week too! They were equally huge and it was like wrestling with an anaconda........