Streamlined Locomotion - Blog for N Gauge Streamline Enthusiasts

Jim Baumann's Cabinet of Wonders

2008-06-26T13:56:00.001-07:00

Had exciting contact from a visitor to these pages - Jim Baumann who's fantastic collection is summarized for you below... Jim's mainly a ship modeller (you can view his stuff here) but has acquired numerous lovely examples of locomotives at various scales (Where possible I've made the locomotive names hyperlinks to articles on the prototype):

In H0/00...

This is his LNER W1 built from the South Eastern finecast kit:

His PRR-T1:

Various NYC Hudsons....

DRG BR05

Norfolk and Western J-600

BR 61 Locomotive (prototype built to pull the Henschel-Wegmann-Zug trainset)

SNCF 232

DRG Class 60

DB Class 10

...and lastly a lovely example of the Polish Pm36 in card using a kit from Marcle Models. I'm now planning on scaling down one of these and seeing if I can knock up an acceptable version in N gauge!:

Jim's got a nice display going that we can all envy... now if only they were all available in N gauge!

Weekend spree

2008-05-31T17:14:00.001-07:00

After a bit of a blogging break I did a blitz on new locos yesterday - partially inspired by a search for something to build that could get round the incredibly tight Tomix curves that have just arrived for Port Rosea!

So here we go... tonight my pick of engines I'd love to build are:

From www.dself.dsl.pipex.com (a generally fantastic site well worth a look).:

The pleasingly chunky Reid-McLeod Turbine which is relatively square for my preferences and might actually be modelable!

At the same sight is the (not so streamlined but still fantastic) L'Aigle. A french attempt at using big wheels to conquer speed!

Over at trains.manvell.org.uk there's some exceedingly useful lists of trains - my particular favourite is the page on N scale German Steam Locomotives Epochs II-V which includes info on some models I've been trying to find for ages to find info on like the Fleischmann 7172 model:

From Railfaneurope
a lovely image of the Italian (I believe) 232 U 1:

Which has been modelled in Gauge 1 (damnit why wont people pay attention to N gauge...) by the lovely people at Southern Steam Trains it would appear:

And lastly, I had the chance to run some of my trains on my good friend Sean Mayers' layout - he has a blog at Black & Green document N gauge exploration of the early BR days... anyhow here's some of the highlights of our pictorial fun:

The Kato Flying Hamburger:

The MicroAce SL7:

Schniezeppelin:

Dapol Q1 double-heading with Sean's Q1 before picking up carriages:

My new Fleischmann DRG BRO110:

A4 Class "Seagull" (Grafar):

A4 Class "Mallard" (Grafar):

And some nice general shots of Sean's shelf layout I'm sure he won't mind me posting...

(Links permission sought where possible - e-mail if you want a link removed or credited differently)

Coronation Class Making

2008-05-27T16:14:00.001-07:00

Well after finally getting hold of a decent Grafar Duchess chassis I've got started on my Langley streamlined Coronation Class body kit!

I'm quite happy with it, but there's a fair amount of work to do to get the Duchess chassis to fit, and to sort out the lower end. At the moment I need to:

• Sort out the front end so it finishes at the right height and we the correct "squareish" side panel that covers the cylinders.*

• Install the weird little square box that goes on the side just above the first driving wheels set.*

• Sort out the back end near the cab!*

• Put in window frames for the cab window (and probably remodel the windows a fair bit).

• File off the hand rails along the boiler and replace them with seperate metal ones.

• Get a new tender to suit the streamlined shell.

• Fill all the moulding inaccuracies, particularly around the front of the cab.

• Resite the buffers lower to suit the new shell bottom.

• Install lamps on the buffers and work out how to light them!

• Investigate if the tender had break lights.

*marked in pink dotted lines on photo

Whew... lots to do... good job my degree's handed in!

K

N Gauge Society AGM

2008-05-18T04:29:00.001-07:00

Had a fantastic time yesterday at the N Gauge Society AGM with a fellow modelling friend. As well as a generally fantastic wealth of information and layouts on display there were some fantastic offers from Graham Farish, and even better second hand bits and pieces at the N Gauge Society shop!

As a result my collection has now expanded to include...

A Kato "Flying Hamburger" (VT04.501 DB. Epoche IIIa. Blue/Grey):

A Fleischmann version of the DRG streamliner (Class 01?) I can't seem to find anywhere online:

A kit built Princess Elizabeth on a Grafar Duchess Chassis - this was my only dissapointment of the day. I bought it for a Duchess Chassis to construct my Langley Coronotation Class kit thinking it was a bargain then discovered I could buy a new Duchess (see below) for £30 less from Farish's "Spares and Repairs" section on the stand... ah well, lesson learnt... at least it runs well!

Grafar Duchess - now I've got two of the chassis I was looking for (Admittedly for less than half a new duchess would cost me) I don't know which to use for the Langley kit! I do quite like the idea of having a streamlined and un-streamlined version sitting next to one another though...

And finally a Mallard to add to my A4 Collection:

They're all absolutely gorgeous runners although I need to get them all chipped... perhaps time for me to learn myself and save some cash... Luckily I won a Dapol Q1 in the raffle at the end which (after a little bargaining with my friend who hasn't been able to get hold of one) paid for almost all my purchases! Hurrah!

I entered The Great Bear into the competition but unfortunately was absolutely outclassed by the attention to detail from other competitors (though I'd like to think I might have scored a few points for uniqueness :-D). I've assembled a layout base with integrated controller and circle of Z track...and now for your viewing pleasure I present it on video!:

I'd also like to take this opportunity to praise the N gauge society. All the committee members were fantastic, the society finances seem in great shape, and I was reminded of all the great benefits members can enjoy. What other equivalent society publishes bimonthly, full colour, 90 page journals with a membership fee of just £15 a year?! Join now is my advice!

World of Weird Streamliners

2008-05-04T08:08:00.003-07:00

I fancied a walkthrough of some streamline stuff, both railway and otherwise, from my collection, heavily influenced by recent trip to Grey Falcon's Site

Firstly there's the gorgeous Mercedes Benz T80 a few models around at larger scales but nothing at N scale.

Hungarian Streamliners

2008-05-04T08:08:00.001-07:00

A couple of lovely examples here that dont appear to be modelled at N gauge...

The Hargita DMU appears to have been modelled for computer uses, and possibly is appearing as an HO model by the Slovakian "Mehano", but I can't find any sign of it being in N gauge catalogues anywhere gorgeous anyway. Image here courtesy of Hamster at hampage.hu

Also thanks to Hamster is this image of the functional looking Class 242. Still really interesting but this must be one of the blockiest streamliner's I've found thus far in my quest!

Nn3 Vee tipper conversion

2008-03-23T05:59:00.001-07:00

I've spent the past day or so converting some of the fantastic Nigel Lawton 009 Vee Tipper kits to Nn3 to be pulled behind my shunter. Click on the image below for my "how to" guide...

Wishlist!

2008-03-22T17:21:00.001-07:00

This is more of a post for myself to be honest but perhaps it'll be of interest to a few... as it stands here's my dream list of N scale trains to buy (although I'd need a very anachronism-friendly layout to run them all!):

Kato GG1 £85.99 (MG Sharp)

Kato SVT137. DRG Epoche II. Cream & Violet. £118.99 (MG Sharp)

Kato SBB CFF "Gotthardo" RAell TEE £189.99 (MG Sharp)

Con-Cor Pioneer Zephyr $284.95 (blwnscale.com)

Bachmann class J 4-8-4 steam loco 601 £79 (ehattons)

MicroAce Nakai Series 5000 "Rapi:t" Kansai Airport Express $499.99 (Newhall Station)

MiniTrix DRG Class 03.10 4-6-2 £165.00 (Gaugemaster)

Graham Farish BR Class 9F 2-10-0 (92002) Black Early £103 (Gaugemaster)

Graham Farish BR (ex-GWR) Railcar W30W Brunswick Green £66

Microace C53 A$ 126.45 (Japanese Model Supplies)

List will be updated as and when I find new things! Current running total: £1222.74

DCC installs

2008-03-17T16:19:00.001-07:00

Long time no update... I'm due to start my layout finally next week as my degree project is well underway and I've secured a new job for post-graduation (hurrah!).

In the meantime I've got my first DCC chips installed in the Rail-Zeppelin and my Q1.

The Q1 was easy. The tender lifts of quickly and simply, and you just replace the buffer chip with your decoder (in my case a Lenz Silver Mini).

The Zeppelin was slightly more complicated til I managed to track down some English instructions... result: I now have one spare mini sitting waiting to have longer wires reattached after I didn't notice the built in cavity for decoders in the chassis (oops!).

If you do it the right way, the decoder sits happily in the cavity on the underside, with the wires trailing up some approximately correctly positioned and sized gaps...

The wires solder easily on to the tabs, and they even provide handy little letters on the tabs to guide you (R for Red, O for orange etc...). I've chosen to use good old cello-tape to secure my wires. Even this way it's a bit bulky for the body to snap down again on the lugs, so some of the self-adhesive pad supplied with the decoder provides a handy way to keep everything together...

For anyone else attempting to put DCC in the Zeppelin. The lovely chaps at Lemke have the instructionshere.

Both now run with my Digitrax Zephyr, and the Q1 seems to be a lot smoother than on DC - not sure why!

More updates when I start building the layout soon.

K

Long overdue post

2008-02-10T17:05:00.001-08:00

Hello one and all,

long time since the last post (been very absorbed in my degree!)...

No news on the layout or much streamliner research at the moment (I seem to have reached the edges of the existing N-scale streamliner universe) but I thought readers who share my love for mid-20th century design optimism might enjoy the music of one of my fantastic new friend's bands, the fantastically talented Ricky Brawn who is drummer for (amongst others) the Space Cadets.

Enjoy. More updates sooner rather than later...

K

Layout update

2007-12-08T13:38:00.001-08:00

No major updates but I've assembled my coal stage loading chute thing from the ratio kit. Mostly very high quality mouldings but some parts were way too thin and relied on a lot of creative use of clamps to hold together edges... not quite as well thought out as the last kit I built (the kibri church). In particular the ladder was way to thin and snapped when I was trimming sprue so mine has a shorter upright ladder rather than the conventional angled ladder specified in the kit. I also replaced the handrails on the ladder with Nbrassloco handrail wire as it's straight and stiff (for some reason Ratio seem to think it's a good idea to supply handrail wire as a coil of fairly soft stuff in a tiny packet in the instructions... bizarre as the box is more than big enough to fit straight lengths of decent stuff). Anyhow, the Mrs wants me to have it painted black as per everything else in our apartment (grown up goths) but I'm not sure what would be best... suggestions welcome as ever.

Pics of assembled (minorly kitbashed) coal loader...

Rail Zeppelin Update

2007-11-23T08:16:00.001-08:00

Fantastic article on the Schienenzeppelinhere courtesy of greyfalcon.us I couldn't fin any contact details for the author so hopefully he wont me linking... the rest of the site's stuff on unusual vehicles is fascinating also.

Wiki image of the Schienenzeppelin or rail-zeppelin as it is sometimes known:

N gauge model of the Schienenzeppelin and it's derivative model the SVT 13715 are available from MGSharp here

K

Kato GG1

2007-11-22T07:38:00.001-08:00

The mumblings are out there... apparently we can expect a new N scale version of the Loewy's iconic GG1 at some point in the new year... no official confirmation from Kato (and I did ask very directly!) and no pictures anywhere up online but it's enough to make me hold my horses on buying an old Arnold one... got to love that Japanese quality!

K

Layout Update

2007-11-16T15:23:00.001-08:00

Updates on some bits and pieces...

The Nn3 streamlined shunter is well underway and has basic body and wiring for the headlamp (GOW bulb) sorted, it runs a treat on the Z scale flex track I got from MG sharp - one of my favourite online shops for railway bits and pieces. I'm waiting on some detailing parts from Nbrassloco and some kind donations from a fellow Nn3 modeller to finish it off. I'm using a nameplate of "The Great Bear" from Fox decals and the whole thing will be nice matt black.

As it stands it looks like this:

Paint job's on the freighter, though I'm still having trouble getting the wood right... I need some custom transfers really to fit with the rest of the layout...

My Church

2007-11-09T19:56:00.001-08:00

Built, kitbashed and painted Kibri church for my layout.... more gothic than deco but I love it.

At last a N scale PRR T1

2007-11-08T18:13:00.001-08:00

The fantastically weird and gorgeous PRR T1 has in fact been modelled in N scale by someone.... albeit not a manufacturer.

The evidently fantastically patient Max Magliaro over at Max Cow Online scratchbuilt (or extreme kitbashed perhaps?) it from Con-Cor/Kato Hudson chassis with handmade styrene and brass bodywork. More info available here but for the full information a visit to the NTrak Steam Locomotive Information Book is in order.

Thanks to Max for the images:

Max has also got a rather lovely version of the NYC Hudson again with Con-Cor/Kato Hudson chassis using a brass and styrene scratchbuilt body and tender...

Applause in order I think!

Now if only he could be persuaded to make a cast of them...

Anyone else who's found any Loewy designs in N scale please let me know!

K

Station interior.

2007-11-03T10:52:00.001-07:00

Had some ideas about the interior of the station, which is for the moment known as Glenstowe Cross.

The upstairs airport area has passport control desks, a central flower bed, waiting seats and a welcome desk for incoming passengers.

The downstairs station has a couple of shops, toilets, tickets and an information booth.

Glenstowe Station

2007-11-02T13:54:00.001-07:00

I just finished my mockup of the Glenstowe station/airport to serve until I can build the real thing. It doesn't have the domed back or much of the detailing but it gives a better idea of scale next to my A4 (still can only fit in two coaches :( ). Mocking it up this way has helped resolved a few consturction issues and plans will be tweaked accordingly before I get the final thing laser cut!

Pics of station prototype:

K

Port Rosea Freighter

2007-11-02T09:22:00.001-07:00

Hello all,

T minus about 3 weeks til I can afford track and start baseboard building!

In the meantime I've set about kitbashing the bulk carrier for my dock using a 1/130 oil tanker kit I stumbeld upon in Modelzone - saving myself about £70 from the cheapest N scale freighter kit I could find (made by Sylvan). The kit I got is made by "Eastern Express" and whilst it's nice and cheap, it is quite frankly the worst tooling I've ever seen. Almost every piece had misaligned halves (sometimes by up to 1mm), missing bits or corners lost in blobs of plastic! So as well as rebuilding the main deck to look like a bulk carrier not a tanker (complete with 1950s wooden hatch covers) I've had to fill loads of the gaping holes with plasticard...argh...

Anyhow here's my tanker in its current unpainted state:

And the part I'm particularly pleased with - the wooden hatch covers:

Shinkansen

2007-10-30T16:20:00.001-07:00

I'm starting to be won over a little by the dark side of the force..... modern trains.... generally I don't think their aerodynamics match up in any way, shape or form to the wonderful curves of yesteryear but I've developed a bit of a soft spot for the 500 series Shinkansen -I guess part of it is loving Japanese design, but mostly it's just very elegant....

Luckily Kato do a lovely model! Cheapest price I can find so far is at MG Sharp where you can find it looking like this:

Layout Update

2007-10-24T18:14:00.001-07:00

After much help from Southernboy here is where the layout stands!

City Station/Airport is now incorporated into one two level transport hub inspired by Embankement Place. Current model looks like this:

My ebay stuff has finally started to arrive after the postal strike! First to do anything with is my Z gauge Marklin 88051 chassis (unbelievably tiny) to turn in to my Nn3 shunter. I've taken all the measurements and built a sketchup model to see what I can fit around the mechanics. This is what the design is looking like at the moment:

Also my Del Prado SNCB Class 12 Belgian Streamline Locomotive model arrived. I'm having a chassis built by the fantastic Bob at BRlines, so hopefully this static kit will soon become a runner! Making the static loco into a runner has thus involved the following....

The original model:

Locomotive removed from base plate:

Remove the screws from the loco and (sorry I missed the pics of the labourious process of doing this) remove the lead weight inside the loco. For me this involved using a heated dental tool and scalpel:

That's how far I am so far with the SNCB...update as soon as I can

I also just received a Langley Models LMS Coronation Streamlined Loco Kit. As soon as I get a Minitrix chassis to fit I'll be posting the results of this - watch this space.

K

Layout update

2007-10-20T13:57:00.001-07:00

New track plan for the layout!

Improvements:
-The second loop is now slightly large and the turns are constant radius all the way round

-Port Rosea now has only one platform and one through line. Didn't seem to make sense to be building two platforms and it compressed everything.

-Right hand turn is more constant radius.

-Flex track used for all the long straights to minimize joints.

-Glenstowe side track reworked to remove roundhouse (none of the kits I can find fit with the art deco kitbashing plans), and add a shunting/fiddle yard type area. More fun to operate and it makes better use of the uber expensive 3 way point I wanted to have somewhere in the layout.

oh and the airport runway is slightly longer. I'm still modelling a steam catapult into the surface to account for how it's too short for scale takeoff though!

Today's streamliner pick

2007-10-18T09:15:00.001-07:00

More streamlined lovelies here...

N scale supply has a gorgeous variant on the DRG class 0110 being used as a US Transportation Corps Train here.

Over in America, Con-cor are doing some fantastic streamline models, although some have been retired (snap them up whilst you can) browse their list here. Some of their choice beauties include:

GS-4 Wartime Version 4-8-4

Adaptations of the "N" Scale 4-8-4 "Northern" type Steam Loco

J3a 4-6-4 Hudson Steam Locomotives Shovel Noses

Over at the rather wonderfully named wig-wag-trains.com, there are some nice models to. Including several colour variants on the DL-109 Diesel Locomotive and a nice informative page on the Kato version of the Super Chief F-7

Over at Garth & Dora Hamilton's site WWW.VE3HO.CA there are some lovely models in the steam train section. Of particular note to streamline fans are their:

Microace P7

Microace C55

Microace C53

There are also some great images and info on ConCor Streamliner's on the Hamilton's page here, I especially like their Hudson Shovel Nose:

Coronation Class

2007-10-17T19:49:00.001-07:00

For those of us that lament the availability of the LMS Princess Coronation Class and subsequent Duchess versions as only un-streamlined models there is a solution!

Langley Models sell a body kit to convert a minitrix britannia chassis and tender (main shop entrance>N scale kits>Locomotive Body kits...), or with a bit of adapatation (apparently) a Farish Duchess chassis into a streamlined Coronation Class... happy filing...

Glenstowe Express Poster

2007-10-17T17:57:00.001-07:00

My fiancee made me post this

2007-10-17T16:17:00.001-07:00

she claims everyone will love this video of us at Thames Ditton Miniature railway as much as she does *wince*...

Layout naming!

2007-10-15T18:40:00.001-07:00

Ok, the layout has beed named!

It will have two, one for the city end, and one for the village bit (boundary line will notionally be the viaduct line). The city will be called...

From the Gaelic "gleann" meaning narrow valley and the Anglo-Saxon "stow" meaning meeting place.

The village and dock area will be named...

The port bit because I like Port as a prefix and there's a dock, and the rest from the Welsh "Rhos" meaning moorland and the Anglo-saxon "Ea" meaning water or river. So a generally quite damp place!

Streamlined update

2007-10-15T14:17:00.001-07:00

Some more links for all to enjoy...

Rather lovely high res prints of London Midland & Scottish Railway 'Princess Coronation Class' Streamlined Pacifics No. 6220 Coronation and No. 6225 Duchess of Gloucester Designed by W.A. Stanier are available here

A nice timeline of the history of streamliners development in the US here.

GHQ models do a 1942 Hiawatha passenger car conversion kit for wagons, but their real standout products are the gorgeous 30s/40s/50s N scale cars they stock. Great for keeping your layout matching the locos. List of their N gauge vehicles is here

My layout

2007-10-15T11:28:00.001-07:00

Hello all... here's my layout thus far in its development stages, these have all been documented on various web forums, mostly at New Railway Modellers.

It's based on a board of 42 by 185cm to fit on top of my ikea expedit bookcase. The layout is a loose and entirely freelance combination of things I'm passionate about, including Art Deco buildings, Narrow Gauge (Nn3), viaducts, and of course streamliners.

The buildings I've designed for the left hand side are meant to be a kind of Art Deco Airport/Station transport hub. This is primarily to give me an excuse to have a weird mixture of zeppelin and cool luftwaffe aircraft in the layout (I've purchased a 1/144 scale Horten IX and a He 111 for this purpose, doubtless more will come!)

The airport building (formed from PVC hemisphere section and laminations of 3mm styrene profiles):

Youtube flyround of the Airport:

The main city railway station just below the airport on the diagram. It will be a kitbash using a Faller 222128 Overall Station Roof. If you can't already tell I have a bit a love affair with the faller range of kits!

First draft of the layout:

Second draft was improved by giving the left hand curve a longer run to get up the viaduct level gradient. The Z gauge/Nn3 track (the red one) has been changed totally (partially to avoid spending £100 on points). It will now serve to deliver freight to the dock side, and to go through to the town/village - at some point this will be running on little trestles to take it high enough to pass over the secondary/village shuttle track. (See the dockside railway at Morwellham Quay for my original motivation for building a narrow gauge railway and the trestles - though mine will be heavier duty - gallery of images courtesy of the BBC at ). The secondary track running around the village/town area now has a loop as well as a siding that will run in to the Iron Foundry model area. It uses almost entirely Tomix track which allows very tight radii, but only short locos will be running on it. It now joins the main track in a much neater joint inside a mountain tunnel (with side access panels). The village/town will now have a church, a less formal platform/station area, and a definite "town square" area with roman cobbling. The main express loop will run below the town level to allow the secondary track to run round without the cobbled together multiple crosses. The section coloured dark grey will be a visible cutting.

Third Draft....

Changes after chat with some chaps on the Mac DCC yahoo mailing list (amazing find for dedicated apple-lites like myself) include:

-Secondary loop pretty much totally reworked and another join to the primary track added. The village platform can now be access on both sides by the express track to allow passing by.

- there's now a story (ish) to go with the narrow gauge and the brewery (iron foundry faller building kit with a bit of kit bashing for no other reason than I like beer and the overhead gantry thing remind me of the guiness storehouse in dublin). There will be two type of freight on the line (now to be shunted with my streamline tank!), tipper wagons to deliver an unspecified ore material and some kind of barrel or beer material carrying wagons that will give me an excuse to run the Nn3 line into the village over the trestles etc in homage to Morwellham Quay! The idea being the dock also serves for internation beer haulage when it's not home to the ship collecting mining ore. The secondary line (which may or may not be served by the Rail-Zeppelin if I can get it to take those turns) will have a siding into the brewery to deliver workers at the beginning of the work day.

Comments and suggestions all welcome!

K

Product links aplenty

2007-10-15T05:44:00.001-07:00

The lovely and (According to Spookshow) 'greatest steam locomotive ever to grace N scale' is available at the bargain price of £89 from Hattons. Click here for the page...

They also have available a really interesting HO scale model of the Chinese Streamline Tank Loco manufactured by Kawasaki in the 1930s.

This would make a gorgeous N scale model if anyone had the time. I'm personally planning an Nn3 shunter based on this for my layout. Only at the sketch stage at the moment but comments would be welcome:

Osborn are also doing a fantastic set of streamline coaches here. They're meant to go with a GG1 or soemthing I think, but I reckon they'd look great behind any streamliner.

And finally the model that got me started, the Farish/Bachmann A4 Classis available here

Accumulated links...

2007-10-14T22:24:00.001-07:00

Thus far these are my streamline specific links for your enjoyment:

Prototrains fantastic site for a company set up with the sole intention of producing streamliners for N gauge.

MG Sharp's Kato USA Page featuring the rather nice new Kato EMD F3A & B Units, including a rather fetching one in black livery.

Con-Cor Aerotrain preorder page for what looks to be a very interesting model.

An N gauge version of the German experimental Schienenzeppelin rail car in all its propellor powered glory is available from MG Sharp in the UK or this site in the US.

The gorgeous and apparently very well running Concord Zephyr model

Great website for finding steamliners at skyrocket.de. Some of these have been modelled but loads are untouched as far as I can tell. Ripe for kitbashing and scratch building! My particular favourite is the highly unusual French Class 231.726 see image below...

Another great website for inspiration is at Streamlined Locomotives of the world

Mostly American locomotives, but still good stuff at Northeast.railfan.net

Fantastic selection of high quality Japanese N scale locomotives, including a few streamliners at Hobby Search.

Really cool Micro Ace airport transfer train ""Rapi:t" Kansai Airport Express at Newhallstation.com

And last but not least a good old links list for streamlined locomotives at wikipedia is to be found here. Enjoy the inspiration.

K

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Welcome

2007-10-14T21:11:00.001-07:00

Hello and welcome to Streamlined Locomotion, a blog set up for N gauge model railway enthusiasts with a passion for streamlined locomotives, and to document my own first layout as it comes into being.

Here you will find posts concerning the prototypes, locomotives that I think would make great models if anyone has the time or the inclination, and crucially, the existing N gauge streamliners that are available on the market!

You can also expect to delve into some other realms of my interest including narrow guage and Nn3 work.

This blog was inspired to be begun thanks to conversations with Southern Boy over at New Railway Modellers so thanks go to all his input!

Cheers,

Kit Friend

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