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Re-Start Live Steam Production


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Use this thread if you want Hornby to re-start production, It is now 7 years since the A4s were produced and 3 years since the A3s were produced.

New Live Steam Locos are almost impossible to get and second-hand are of dubious quality and shortages

are pushing up prices to impossible levels.

I believe there is sufficient demand, especially with the foundation of the 00 Live Steam Club to sustain another production run.

What do you think?
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Hi,
I would too like to see a return in live steam as I was never evan into the Hobbey when it first came out. Now, if they released a new batch of live steam, maybe I could somehow find the money to buy a live steam locomotive.

Apparently Live

Steam is 'Sleaping' until the economy picks up and their is more money around to creat and buy live steam.
As mutch as I love the LNER maybe when it comes back from it's 'rest' they should start focusing on the LMS.
They could make a few pricess coranation

class live steam and then maybe a few black fives. Then them could start focusing on the Southern region and then the GWR.
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The two things that put me off live steam are the cost, and the fact that they are incompatible with normal electric models. I realise that there are practical difficulties on both counts, but I doubt I shall ever be tempted to add live steam to my collection.

I would much rather see the resources put into adding more variety into the electric ranges.
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I am convinced that a Live Steam (LS) re-introduction, which has to be the most exciting prospect in OO scale modeling imaginable, would be incompatible with legacy LS. New LS would have to be DCC compatible to have a chance in the regular OO scale marketplace.

I don't think this matters, as the driving characteristics could still be the same fun, in my view. After all, the main thing about legacy LS is the driving characteristics. Its just so much fund to drive!
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Or just bay a O gauge or G gauge real coal burning loco motive and be done some second hand one's are going for a good price considering the detail thats the way i will go in the future a real steam loco not a electric kettle on wheels.
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thats a nice way of putting i must say it a real steam loco not a electric kettle on wheels
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i thought i may get some one to mon about that made my day. yes i have seen the Swiss one before it may have been you your self who first pointed it out to me last year a unusual prototype indeed and would make a supper model by some one with much better

modeling skill then my self. i do not see the big deal about steam in OO it won't work with normal DC or AC (DDC) which may be done to the energy transfer to steam needed to run the loco not having the heater rate and water volume to hand would not be to hard

to work out plus the thermal efficiency of boiler plus tubes etc.

and is to my knowledge the tech is at least 30+ years old any way has i saw an mag for model airplane from china with a real steam loco in it back in the mid 1980's in HO.

and

to have one in the garden i just think a real coal burning loco would look sound and even smell better in O/G scale. BUT i will say each to there own if thats what some of you are in to then fine but for the cost £500 there abouts when and if they come back

i would think twice, has this will happen again with the next economic crash. as in no train or parts etc etc.
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