Steam locomotive

Yeah.

But what you could do, if you liked a certain area, but you wanted to model different traction through it, so, you know, if you wanted to, say, do a part of the Great Western in the Steam era, but you also enjoyed, like, the 90s era, how can you change it up without actually rebuilding an entire layout? So that's why I've been thinking, like, with Pendant, where they've got, like, you know, the scene is built in a box, If you build your layout so that, you know, you build a row of houses that are 1930s style, say, you put them on there and then they're all lined up.

Looks nice, lovely little scene.

You change your mind.

I

know, right? Yeah.

And I think there is a lack of photographs around that era because there wasn't as many people going out and doing it because, yeah, as I say, Steam's gone, what's the point? And the Diesel fans came in a little bit later.

So maybe because there isn't so much of that, I haven't been so inspired because I haven't seen so much imagery of it.

All right? So if you go look at Bachmann Europe, you will find in there British in-scale trains.

You'll go to Steam Locomotive, and you will find the BR Standard 5.

Now, I have to have lights and sound because I'm bougie like that.

Shout out to Craig, whose comment we'll read in a moment.

Thanks to Steve Moorcroft for this one, which appeared on the BBC website for local news endorses a youth football manager said he loved it.

when his under-nines team unexpectedly abandoned their post-match team tour to chase after a steam train apparently blanford united royals head coach adam day said his players had just finished playing swanage away on sunday close to the swanage railway when the locomotive chuffed past He said, as I turned to begin our post-match team talk, I've totally lost him, he joked, as video of the excited footballers has racked up millions of views on social media.

Take a look.

Day, who has coached the side for three years, said it was genuinely great to see them so happy and just being kids.

It really is a great bit of film.

You look it up and go and have a look.

Totally spontaneous, showing the power that steam locomotives still have to excite everyone, young and old, as they gaggle a lad and just run off after this steam train.

Great to see.

yep

and have a good look at it if it's rolling in with a steam train i think it will be epic to see

yep we get the snow train come roaring past us all the time oh awesome yeah that's that's a pretty impressive thing to say have you ever seen

it like they show it on the news i know i don't watch the news much but there's always footage of the big trains that go through like flinders street and spencer street the big old black steam locos yeah well that's like the snow train that comes

know that was the bet that was fantastic that was fantastically

And I do think that if you're going to the Museum of Water and Steam in London, you've got to have a little go on the steam train.

I really like the fact that they went on the steam train.

It was very...

Honestly, I've gone back of my own accord, had we not.

If I'd been one of the contestants and we'd gone to that place and not had to go on the steam train, I'd have gone back by myself.

I really like the idea.

They'd be like, what do

If you just run, tops beat.

You can beat the steam train.

You could do that, can't you? Oh, yeah.

Anyway.

Yeah.

That's how he got home.

But I can see why the steam train going at that speed is different to a high speed electric train.

That's my point.

Mm-hmm.

But, uh, talking about steam trains, Eamonn, I'll be coming to Thurles, please God, on the 24th of October via steam from c- from Heuston in Dublin.

So there'll be a steam train in Thurles that day.

24th of October.

Okay.

You know what? I'm going to throw in the magic behind the steam trains tour, which I'm going to be honest, I don't know if they're running it.

I mean, right now they're not running it because the railroad isn't fully operational.

Okay.