No. 161 Wet Day Play – etched plates and Jubilees
A conversation with a friend about changing names and numbers on old Bachmann or Mainline Jubilees prompted me to dig out some etched plates I bought perhaps two years ago, and get on and fit them! Mainline Orion with 247 Developments etched plates and newer Bachmann split chassis One of my all time favourite models was the Mainline Jubilee ‘Orion’. I think ‘Royal Scot’ was my first Mainline model but Orion followed soon after in June 1981. Pallitoy must have made thousands of models of Orion and they mostly ran well with their characteristic whirring noise. When Pallitoy thought the market was saturated with Orions they brought out Leander. By this time the quality control must have slipped because wheels began to shift on axles and I thought models did not run as smoothly. Mainline Orion from 1981 with black painted wheel rims I sold my original ‘Orion’ in autumn 2007 to coincide with the arrival of the Bachmann ‘improved’ Jubilees. You cannot have too many model