One of our members, Ian, has an awesome hobby and that hobby is 3D printing. While we were putting together our new big layout we paid a trip to Ians house to raid his parts boxes for vintage pieces and whilst we were there we got a tour of the Lego / Printing room. We…

During our first show it was realised that some of our trains were suffering from motor squeak. After we got back I opened the motor unit casings to inspect inside and found that the internal electric motors have a date of manufacture on them, the oldest motors in our trains were 57 years old, and…