Help !!!!

You try desperately to bring them up right but 7 year old says he wants a diesel. At first he was just teasing me, but now hes quite serious.

Would be grateful for any advice to bring him back on to the right track.

Cheers, Simon

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simon
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Buy him a Beyer-Garratt. or a 9F

David

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chorleydnc

The more you resist his demands the stronger they'll get. Try deluging him with diesels till he's sick of the sight of them.

(kim)

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kim

Nice idea - a Beyer-Garratt wouldnt be wasted, but her ladyship wont agree to spending money. She says if thats what nature has decided for him then we should just face up to it.

Cheers, Simon

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simon

G'day Simon, The devil has put him up to it. So there is no 'Getting him back on the right track'

  1. You could send him to the shops to buy a paper and while he was gone you could move house.
  2. You could just dis>> You try desperately to bring them up right but 7 year old says he
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Graeme

Thanks, wonder if borrowed several of same class but different livery then said thats the full range ! 'but they all look the same' - yes lad thats the magic of diesels.

Cheers, Simon

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simon

Build a model of the Bullied Leader. Someone makes a kit out there. Golden Arrow productions ISTR. Only tell the youngster the truth when he is old enough to understand.

Seriously though I watched a youngster being bought a locomotive/Train in a model shop a few months back. The boy desperately wanted a model that looked like the one he could see running on the real thing at the other end of the street. A Bachman Turbostar was the one he picked out. Granddad who was doing the buying was rubbishing the idea and insisted on getting a steam loco in GWR livery "as it was the best Railway". One dissatisfied little boy who I would think was about 9 or 10 Overhearing the initial conversation he had already had a High speed trainset from Hornby and was wanting something to go with it and though still at the trainset stage was thinking about reproducing something from his surroundings in miniature. Granddad was destroying that by forcing his world on the youngster. Probably a less real one anyway. Anyone who can really remember the GWR is more likely to be a Great Granddad by now.

G.Harman

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oldship

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Mike

How about explaining that you will have to lift all branch-lines and just have a single mainline from A - B

Andy

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Andy Cap

Being near the same age bracket as the youngster at the time of the Beeching cuts one of the most common ways of passing time on a wet Summer Sunday was to lay out a network of lines with my Lone Star push along stock and track. Fortunately I had a fair amount of it. The afternoon was spent gradually "closing" the system . last passenger train run, then the freight, demolition train then picking up the track which could be several train loads. Eventually just one line left which was then singled. Matchbox busses and lorries took over the services as the lines retracted. It was what had happened in the real world around me and "modelling" it was a great scenario. Winter meant dark afternoons so it was worth running the generator and the Tri-ang electric set came out but it not lend itself to the reproduce the scene so easily. track pinned on a board for a start.

An imaginative seven year old of today would no doubt choose a different scene. No idea what . Depending what they have observed it may be trams replacing trains or a brand new line being built with Trains from overseas , fleet of busses laid on while the track is repaired. Give them something they can relate to and let imagination go from there.

G.Harman

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oldship

Buy him one of those 0-gauge diesel 04's which Bachmann sell. Put a decent sound chip inside it.

Then ask to borrow it :-)

- Nigel

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Nigel Cliffe

At least modelling modern freight is much easier - block trains going effectively in circles, just like the train sets! And passenger trains are all DMU's with daft liveries..... ;-)

Cheers Richard (Blue era diesel man)

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beamendsltd

Buy him something nice like a Bachmann 20/24/25 or Horby 50

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Martin

Well, a few visits to preserved lines, especially ones like the Bluebell where there is only a diesel shunter, could help...

But in the end if he sees diesels in real life on a regular basis, that's what he will remember. It's my 'yoof' in the early 80s that bring back my most nostalgic memories - Class 33/1s on the Bournemouth-Weymouth route, including the sound of the engines, and their smell - oh for a sound and 'smell' equipped Heljan Class 33/1 in boring, bog standard corporate blue and yellow :-) (unless of course I win the lottery and then I'd buy a 12' to the foot one :-)

But having said that, I also have strong memories of the Watercress Line at Alresford, also back in the early 80s, on a drizzly but not cold day. The smells of the steam seemed to be amplified by the rain, and I remember them as very evocative. That's one of the reasons why I also model early 60s BR(S), because in a somewhat timewarped way that's where my some of my experiences come from... :-)

Ian J.

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Ian J.

Could be confusing though - the 31 on Peak Rail on Sunday was producing a could of white smoke (duff injector or three?) that completely dwarfed the smoke the 0-4-0 of the other end of the train was making!

Cheers Richard

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beamendsltd

"kim" wrote

It didn't work with me! I've got a railway room full of diesels of all shapes, sizes and eras - I even occasionally allow a 'kettle' out of the stock cupboard. ;-)

John.

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John Turner

wrote

Even the GWR had diesels! ;-)

Rather snazzy railcars and shunters if I recall correctly.

John.

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John Turner

"Andy Cap" wrote

Nonsense - we still have our branch line in Barton upon Humber (North Lincolnshire), and I can't believe it would have survived at all without dieselisation.

Wouldn't call it exciting though, with just a solitary class 153 tripping backwards and forwards to Cleethorpes every two hours, although the first departure of the morning (7:00am) does bring a 3-car class 185 into town. Oh and someone thought fit to send a pink liveried class 31 along light engine the week before last - it looked quite pretty with its 'Gauge O Guild' nameplates.

John.

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John Turner

Buy him a diesel, let him select it, first hook him to the hobby, then guide him. There are worse things than wanting a diesel, he might want something American or continental and Diesel......

If nothing else compromise and get one in BR green so you can run late steam along side.

Reply to
estarriol

There are still interesting small branch lines; eg. the East Suffolk has hefty container freight to Felixstowe, nuclear flasks to Sizewell, leaf cleaning train (2* 37's on either end of two wagons!), as well as several types of multiple unit.

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Nigel Cliffe

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