The Great Electric Train Show 2024 - Part 2

[@carolinecleaveley-q1r]

thanks fo Mark,Mike and the Key model world team for the best show yet with none of the overcrowding of last year. Caroline.

[@paulodonovan1150]

Excellent thanks for sharing

[@dcc125]

@paulodonovan1150 Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment it is appreciated. Thanks Jason

[@Wessexshire]

Charwelton, they really really like their brake vans!!.

[@dibsyardshuntinglayout]

An interesting closed van @5:43 - anyone know what this is?

[@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204]

great vid

[@dcc125]

@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204 Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment it is appreciated. Thanks Jason

[@cyberdonblue4413]

As someone who loved his time on the footplate (40 years very nearly, now retired) it always amuses me to see the lengths that many of these highly skilled modelmakers go to in their wonderful search for realism; but the biggest failure of them all is staring them in the face all the time. One of the most important rules on the railway has always been around 'tail lights' - on locos and on trains. The tail light signifies to the Signalman "Train complete." Never more so than in the semaphore areas. Always has, always will. Therefore, if you displayed any other red light within the train formation the Signalman would stop you and ask if you had a problem. If you had not then you would be instructed to extinguish the rogue red light before you were allowed to continue. Furthermore, on diesel locomotives, displaying a red light at the rear of the loco when attached to a train was considered lazy at best and possibly the subject of disciplinary action at worst. As well as all that, during most of the eras I see modelled ONLY ONE TAIL LIGHT was displayable at the rear of a loco. There was a rocker switch in the cab, "Up" for right hand tail light, "Down" for left hand tail light. As far as I can recall, the two tail light option wasn't an option until well after the turn of the century. Why do you model makers not create a massive fuss with loco producers to be given proper control over your engine lighting options? I'm afraid I cannot take ANY layout seriously when I see those rogue red lights on display. I just want to cut the wires as soon as I see it.

[@dibsyardshuntinglayout]

So, have you corrected all the loco lighting on your layout?