Gordon, I'm with you in many respects!
Geoff. > Im ambivalent about this ,to me a great deal of the joy in this >live steam hobby is Tactile/Visual and by this I mean ,if the full size >loco had wood end beams , then the model should have too,and if the smokebox >was metal then so should the model!and if the full size one was lit up and >fussed over /lubed and prepared by the driver, then thats what I want to do >as well..it seems they are marketing it to the switch on and run crowd.no >knowledge needed! I think we may hear some grievous stories in the future. > > Gordon Watson. >