Take cheap toy train, remove dodgy sound effects board and speaker, replace with cheap forward-off-reverse R/C board... then turn the tender body around on the chassis because it faces the wrong way(!), and... well it now has reverse and no unsynchronised vaguely-chuffing-adjacent sound.

Now to see if I can be bothered building a decent body on it.
Basically an idea I had of "can I turn a cheap toy train into a somewhat decent model railway?"

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Dilophosaurus repairs the Christmas Caboose.

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Dilophosaurus hangs their old toy trains on the tree.

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Roadside America

A miniature village created by Laurence Gieringer in 1935 in his home. But with growing interest Geringer purchased land in Shartlesville, Pennsylvania where the display opened to the public in 1953.

In 2020 Roadside America announced that they were closing permanently and auctioning off the display.

My family visited this wonderful site often in the 60s - a great memory from my childhood

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