We are giving away the Planet diesel I have been building in recent issues of Garden Rail, to someone who has bought advanced tickets to the April show.
Since I was in the studio, I recruited Steven to help me make a quick video of the little beast. And for this, I needed some track. We have some 5ft lengths of LGB, but these are costly and a pain to move around. Instead, I dug out some of the Playmobil plastic track I bought on impulse at the Llangollen show a year ago.
This track appeared because toy legislation banned Playmobil from selling track-powered trains. All their models went over to battery-electric, something that I suspect was much appreciated by parents, as they could stop fiddling with fishplates and wondering why the train suddenly ran out of electric juice. Kids would be happy, because the radio controls brought more play value, lights and sound, with them.
This stuff is lovely and chunky, comes in 268mm lengths (no idea why) and clips together. For more permanent setups, there are some clips that fit in the square holes at the ends, to really hold things together. For my purposes, the simple clipping seems pretty solid.
I have straights and curves, plus four points. Again, nice and chunky, with good, positive motion when you twist the knob beside the switchblades.
In the video, the little shunter ran happily along it. Making it ideal for temporary lines. No steam though, the plastic wouldn't take kindly to dropped hot fluids!
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