Time to play trains!

 Making and building models is all well and good but sometimes you need to realise that part of the fun is actually 'playing' with them! Tonight its cold with stormy weather over the UK, there is not much on TV and the news suggests that Covid may be having a fight back with us all. Now with all that doom and gloom what better therapy than to step into my man cave, ironically AKA The Room of Gloom, to run a few trains and simply enjoy watching them go round. Its therapeutic and takes your mind off the troubles of the World. In your own small World you control what goes on and how its done - Perfect!!!! Well that is until Mr.s W starts asking questions about where I am with her list of ''Must Do' jobs!

Anyway, on the tracks tonight, a selection of trains that you would never find sharing the tracks in real life but this is my railway where that well establish railway modeler's Rule One is in force! That is, 'Its my railway and I will run what I like!'. 

Looking left to right, A Bachman 6 car Western Pullman set, a ViTrains Class 37 in very early EW&S livery before it became plain EWS hauling a rake of 5 Seacows and a Shark brake van (you have to love the way that the track maintenance wagons are name - there are also such things as Trouts and Mermaids) and Tornado the new build Peppercorn A1 class hauling 5 Hornby Teak coaches.

On the outer tracks we have a Hornby 9F hauling a mixed rake of 18 various goods wagons including vans, cement wagons and mineral wagons. There is also a Hornby Class 40 hauling 6 Oxford Rail Mk 3 BR coaches.

There is a Bachmann Class 20 in Rail Freight livery hiding on the right in what will be a goods /maintenance yard as the layout build progresses. That large gap between tracks 2 and 3 will eventually be a platform unless I decide on a different track plan and with my track (no pun intended) record that is a strong possibility.

I am lucky in having three running lines with various loops so trains can be changed and alternated. On the other side of the layout in one of the loops a Bachmann Windhoff maintenance train in the old Railtrack livery awaits a turn. A very odd piece of kit but something about it that makes it almost cute!

So having had a good couple of hours just playing trains, enjoying them as they circle the layout with no purpose other than to amuse and entertain me, I am a happy bunny with a clear mind, vacant of the weather and bad news stories although that Mrs. W list of jobs is bound to come back at some point! On that note maybe I will just let the trains run for a few more minutes!