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Wrenn were fitted with tension lock couplings but also, they came with the old Peco type of couplings for those who wanted to use them.

Narrow gauge forestry railway in Russia. They used to have them in Britain as well though ours were horse drawn because horses could haul loads up hills as steep as 1 in 3.
The forestry lines were layed to where they were needed and when they were needed elsewhere, they simply picked them up and moved them. Sleepers were often thin tree trunks. All was very simple. This Russian line is a bit more on a grander scale then what we usually had in the UK for a forestry line, but it still is interesting.

Here is something interesting. T scale. T scale actually works but one needs a covering to delay the need to clean the track and those tiny wheels!

Whilst T scale is the smallest commercially available scale they contains a motor, one can get smaller again if the whole train becomes part of the motor. Take a look at this...

Glass top not only keeps the dust off, it keeps the cat from grabbing a train and running off with it!

After waiting a couple years for crew figures the Pennsy 0-6-0 now has a fireman in place looking like he just put a scoop in the firebox and is starting to turn around to get the next.
Scraped paint off the apron for gluing the fireman's feet to, that will get touched up in a bit.

For some reason I made the apron for this one before/without shortening the drawbar between engine and tender to a more realistic length like I did the other 0-6-0.
I don't know why. And I'm not making a new apron because of shortening the drawbar, it stays as is.

Engineer is waiting for me to finish making his seat.

A firedoor detail part for the coal to go in to will get done later.
Also on the list for later are other boiler backhead details; some more coal for the tender; clear for the windows; a nice whistle casting; LED headlight and backup light.

Very nice. I did have a "Thing" where I did not want any little people on my trains or layout, but since I hit around about my mid to late 30's I have welcomed little people onto my trains, especially since I moved up a scale.
I used to do all I could to rid my toy cars of people, even chewing their heads off so I could not see them looking at me when I was younger!

The only issue I have is that people need to be painted and I could do with more paint, so most of the little people I have are in naked pinkish skin colour. I had wanted to pint some people black because I had thoughts on setting my railway on a ficticious island where the natives were black and the incoming pirates who had seen the error of their ways, converted to Christianity and wanted to bless the people by a narrow gauge railway but if I did paint the natives black, people can accuse me of racism so I don't know how I can get around this issue and set my railway in an interesting place. (I was also going to have the islands chief form of income being a desirable type of large fruit a bit like a round watermellon which was going to be carried on some of my waggons down to the harbour where the pirates old sailing ship was to be seen in the background having not moved for many years...).
We shall see...

Checked mail while on way to do laundry and there were palm trees in the mailbox (technically, palms are not trees, they are more closely related to grasses than to trees, but 'palm tree' has become a language convention) two more packages are due tomorrow.
And the local grocery store had the perfect snack ...

Will take some flash trimming & other touch up but that will be easier on my body than scratchbuilding them and cutting out ✂ hundreds of leaves, fronds, or whatever the things are properly called.

And since even my human nose could smell the plastic of course the cat noses had to investigate the new smell when I got home from doing laundry.

For those who might be interested in making their own if your railroad's setting, or your miniatures games, should require palms, here are 3 videos of which I know,
https://youtu.be/4-9XwdK8pFk
https://youtu.be/SSKG9rcb_Y4
https://youtu.be/VQsNNu4IbAM

Okay, yes, are enough in there of sizes which will work nicely for HO scale.

Will eventually be a road between that line of palms and the stores plus a couple more stores. Wonder if using 2 or even 3 relatively close sizes of palms could create a bit of a 'forced perspective' effect from front to back?
Another thing being wondered is whether to make road narrower than it would be to scale, or, to make it a one-lane and one-way road.

Perhaps of interest?
https://www.railwayage.com/freight/women-in-rail-steam-that-is/

This could be a fun scene to model on a layout and see if visitors can deduce what is going on:

Now that is one of the most interesting switches/turnouts I've ever seen,

"Dundon, WV Station and junction with the Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad. 5/29/1960"

I don't know if this would help with the club layout ...

There is a book in Britain called "Red Is For Danger".

It is an interesting read. It describes some of the larger railway accidents and how they happened, and what was done to prevent them from happening again. The rules here are being constantly updated in an effort to avoid accidents and dilemmas from occuring.