James
Western Thunderer
The National Railway Museum houses a large 7mm layout based around half of David Jenkinson's first venture in the scale - he was the Museum's Education Officer at the time. It's been in daily use since 1981!
I've been one of the volunteer team looking after for eight years or so.
I thought people might be interested in some the projects we have.
The locos cover between 1.5 and 3 real miles this Heljan class 40 covered, as a conservative estimate, over 2,000 miles in five years!
It wore it's wheels like this!
So new wheels, a repaint and replacing many lost pipes and bits. Buffer beam pipes from wire generally to better resist knocks.
And back in service.
