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    Coal Towers

    How about that - a new thing achieved today. So busy loading pics forgot to comment. Pic 1 is the Hornby coal tower - single track sitting in my marshalling yard. Scale is good, weathered concrete suitably grey and miserable (England after all) and breaks the skyline up a bit. Pic 2 is the...
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    Coal Towers

    never done this before. I hope it works!
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    Coal Towers

    Fair point. I shall get arty with the camera tomorrow and have a bash...the Hornby tower is in situ on layout whilst the Bachmann sits forlornly staring at me from my workbench....I'll see if I can get them side by side. I'll aim to post them by 7pm UK time.
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    Coal Towers

    curses and double curses! My cunning plan to sell one of them to you has failed. You'll be sorry when your trains run out of coal and I am the only supplier of highly valuable coal towers.....mwah mwah mwah!
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    Coal Towers

    If asked if I'm an idiot I usually try to respond that I am not. However I have bought both Hornby and Bachmann coaling towers....Both! This is caused by pre-ordering off mail order sites and not keeping note...as I said an idiot. This means however that I can make a comparison - both are very...
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