February Photo of the Month

February Photo of the Month

Our Photo of the Month for February is Bing OO in the Summer Sun from Paul Williams Paul tells us about this photo "The loco is a Bing Table Railway electric LMS Tank 513, manufactured sometime between 1924 and 1930. So, between 87 and 93 years old and still running...
People who live in glass house SHOULD play with trains!

People who live in glass house SHOULD play with trains!

Our friends of the "Spielisenbahn" seem to have started the new year well! Here are some photos of a get-together held over the three days Epiphany weekend – it warrants a public holiday in Southern Germany - in a commercial greenhouse belonging to one of the members...
Photo Competition & a Happy New Year!  UPDATED

Photo Competition & a Happy New Year! UPDATED

The results of our Photo Competition now in. We had a very good entry which made choosing the winners very difficult. Thank you everybody who took part. However the TCS committee never shirk a hard task (!) and so the decisions have been made. The overall winner of...
DECEMBER 2016 TRAIN COLLECTOR

DECEMBER 2016 TRAIN COLLECTOR

THE DECEMBER TRAIN COLLECTOR IS OUT Another great issue is on its way to members if it has not already arrived. The big news is that this is Pat Hammond's last issue as editor. Pat established the Train Collector ten years ago as the (new and improved) successor to...
A rot setting in?

A rot setting in?

James Day, a regular exhibitor at TCS and many other events recently posted to our e-group (TrainColSoc) a tale of woe about a relatively recent purchase James wrote: In around 2010 I bought a new four car set of Walther’s Life-Like Proto 1000 NYC R17 subway cars....