Testing testing on Coalbridge Street…

It is always the fall of 1973 in my workshop. Coalbridge Street, a 3D interactive painting that comes to life at a the flick of a switch - inviting you in to interact, enjoy spending some time waiting for a train - or perhaps joining the crew for a run up from the junction…A shelf layout, purely developed for home enjoyment out on the road? Yes, Coalbridge Street is out at Larkrail rubbing shoulders with other cameo layouts in July - and almost a world tour, Uckfield in Kent at the end of the year. In an attempt to begin to smooth out a few foibles I’ve embarked on some coupling standardisation - which of course required further testing.Watching the 45t roll across the crossing is hardly troubling though - its coupling rods animated wildly accentuated by small wheels and its diminutive size. Coupling standardisation might sound peculiar, don’t they all use knuckle couplers?Well yes - but with single car trains I find that different brands, and worse, different size heads (standard or…