2012 RTR Southern Stock

By now I’m sure that most of the readers of this blog are well aware of Bachmann’s 2012/13 new models.  The announcements can be found on Bachmann’s website.  Graham Muz has detailed the southern items expertly. Looking at the forthcoming Hornby/Bachmann/Dapol (Kernow Model Centre) there are some items of interest for the 00 scale Southern…

Ready To Run Models

Looking across the yard today, I reflected that Railway modellers live in very good times.  The range of Ready to Run (RTR) models available is incredible really.  With that in mind, I lined up  four locomotives for the picture above showing some contrasting examples from all three major RTR manufacturers of 00 models.  It makes…