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I've recently joined this group and apologise up-front if this is all in hand and understood by others, but I've tried trawling through the forum entries in this site and on RMWeb, and cannot find anything recent that explains the availability issues with the O14 Roy Link products? For me Roy Link was my original inspiration for modelling in O14 and I'm sure he was for many others. Checking the KBScale website it states all their kits are now back in production but does not state a date. For many months I've been checking the Lightrailwaystores website who are meant to sell these products, but it still states that 95% of the original Roy Link products are not available. If you want a coupling pin or a fishplate you're in luck, but none of the wagons or locos. I've tried contacting KBScale a number of times with no joy. I tried contacting Lightrailwaystores to see if they have anyway of contacting KBScale or if they are aware what the issue is, and I didn't get any useful feedback. The only forum message I can find about this goes back to 2019, when in theory the previous production issues were now resolved and by 2019 everything was meant to be all back and available. However, nothing seems to have changed. Roy did so much to champion this modelling gauge, and opened up modelling of 2ft gauge industrial railways to so many people. Sadly when I now look at the volume of messages over the recent years for this O14 IO Group, interest seems to be tailing off? This is very possibly in no small part due to the products that triggered the interest all those years ago not being available. David Janes appears to be the owner of KBScale and in charge of the Roy Link kits but I cannot find any recent entries here or on RMWeb that gives any updates on the availability of these products. If he is unable to produce any of the range anymore, is the best course of action to offer out the production of these to someone else? I'm not holding up my own hand for the job, but if there is anything I could do to assist in other ways, then I'd be willing to try. So, please David are you able to give this forum an update on what is happening? Steve Thomason

Please excuse the monotonous cross posting, I’m trying to find the best new home for these exceptional models. We’re downsizing and moving, so some wonderful pieces need a new home. In the later 1990s, Western Scale Models, Bill Gustafson himself, produced a set of shop tools measured from those still in use on the Sierra RR. There were, still are, a marvel of white metal castings, beautiful. They’re in O-Sale/Quarter Inch, so they’re perfect for O, On3, On30 or On2 use. Virtually mint in perfect boxes, sealed sleeves intact. The eight of them are, starting with a sample kit contents: 1 Heavy Duty Double Spindle Lathe 2 Belmont-Mills Car Wheel Borer 3 Hack Saw, Post Drill Press & Grinder 4 28-inch Engine Lathe 5 Niles-Bemont-Pond Hydraulic Wheel Press 6 Planer 7 Radial Drill Press 8 Shop Heater & Overhead Travelling Crane These show up on eBay, but their asking prices can be atmospheric. I found actual selling prices and discounted them by 25%. Or $500 for the lot. Or you can make me an offer. Shipping and insurance is extra. Photos attached! Pricing attached! Please contact me using the Reply To Sender function or directly to: jolitzwr at yahoodotcom. Thanks for looking, Bill Jolitz

Friends, There is no 'good news' surrounding the death of Bob Barlow. However, new posting on the Greystar web site Redirect http://www.greystarpublications.com Redirect http://www.greystarpublications.com View on www.greystarpublications.com http://www.greystarpublications.com Preview by Yahoo provides us with the news many of us had been hoping for. Adrian

A prototype question, but some of our FR/WHR experts may know the answer: As built all the NGG16 Garratts had exhaust steam pipes running along the boiler unit frames on both sides of the loco. Pictures of no. 143 in commercial service in 1986 South Africa show the pipe on the left-hand side, but when first running on the WHR (in her original black livery) this LH pipe was missing; the only exhaust steam pipe was on the right hand side. No. 138 also may have had a similar single pipe layout at the time. The lack of the LH pipe didn’t seem to affect the loco’s performance; I had a trip behind 143 in this condition in 2007, and she had no problems climbing out of Dinas with a lengthy train. However, following overhaul in 2010-11 no. 143 appeared not only in green livery, but with the standard pipes-on-both-sides layout as well. Does anyone know the thinking behind these changes, and were any other NGG16s so affected? Thanks Allan (PS and yes, I know the Backwoods kit is for a NGG16 with rivetted tanks, and 143 has welded ones…literal rivet counting!)

Just arrived this Am, rails, code 83, from Rails of Sheffield, arrived Sunday. Six panels test build whilst I am on holiday. Just need a baseboard, mdf or sundela.

I recently purchased this locomotive at auction from the estate of Peter Barney, a well known Maine Two Foot author and modeller. I understand that the kit version of this loco became what is now the Slater's kit with a modified motor and drive system with Slater's wheels Does anyone know the history of the earlier L&B loco and who was behind it? From correspondence with Roy Link I know he partnered at one time with Alan Gibson to produce a limited run of 50 L&B kits that featured milled frames, sprung axles and portescap motors and Alan Gibson wheels and that a second version of locos came later from Alan without all those features. Was there a third maker of Lynton & Barnstaple 7mm kits? CP

Anyone interested in a set of six etched brass and white metal kits? Perfect for O14 track gauge. 3 Wood sided and 3 metal sided. Heavy white metal frames with detailed wheels and bodies. $150 plus $25 shipping.

I am posting some short videos of a Plate Framed Simplex I recently built using a offset gearhead micro motor to drive it via O rings to each axle it also has another O ring driving the radiator fan.

I have two kits in different stages of completion for sale. SL3, an 'Alice' class Hunslet is largely completed as purchased is in O14 but needs finishing. The SL4 Dinorwicc 'Port' class Hunslet has just the chassis started in O16.5. Both are complete with wheels, gears and motors. 140GBP each plus 25GBP shipping or buy both for 300GBP with shipping included. CP

well....... here he is again the confused American Ive opened my KB McEwan Pratt Baguley 10 hp and find myself stymied again Do I build it compensated or not?........having looked around NGonline etc. I've not been able to find a build thread....so any advise from the group would be appreciated as I struggle along thanks as always Joe Gilmartin