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    Looking outside the box

    Aug 07, 2020 4 minutes

    WITH so much heritage news going on, I’ve kept this modelling feature about ‘coming out of the box’, both literally and figuratively, as brief as possible this month.

    Many if not most railway modellers will decide on a particular theme for their current layout and stick to it doggedly in everything they buy thereafter. I’m no exception in this regard as I continue to build up locomotives and rolling stock for my next OO-scale project based on the LMS in the late 1930s.

    Every now and again, though, something completely different comes along that I simply cannot resist, my latest such acquisitions being commemorative boxed sets of Hornby Rivarossi’s HO (1:87) scale model of the Union Pacific Railroad’s articulated

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