No. 148 On a winning streak – The Rails Rapido Dynamometer Car
It has just been announced that the Rails Rapido Dynamometer Car has won the 2018 first ever Hornby Best OO Scale Wagon or Carriage Awards. Deservedly I would say. My model was purchased long before the awards were announced. The model is highly detailed and very well made. I think more a scale model than an item of model railway rolling stock. Ex LNER Dynamometer Car - complete with magic wand (to turn on the lighting) Over the course of a year I buy the odd item from Rails of Sheffield. This year Rails have been putting in their parcels, an advertising flyer for the ex LNER Dynamometer Car. It was made for Rails by Rapido, a Canadian business. The advertising flyer did not pass unnoticed by my wife who eyes, with a certain degree of suspicion, the various brown boxes delivered by our Postie. “Are you going to buy one?” she asked, followed by “I think you should get one”. Well – how could I resist! Ex LNER Dynamometer Car My layout is ‘60