A number of unfortunate motorists in North Wales know from bitter experience over the last two and a half decades that if you pick a fight with a Garratt there's only going to be one winner.
Thus the many level crossings around the Beddgelert area are festooned with bilingual signage warning of the dangers of failing to stop and take a good look at whether there's 62 tonnes of articulated locomotive heading your way.
It's details like that which really lift a scene on a layout and, I hope, sometimes make you look twice to check if it really is a model.
Himself has finished this painstaking task by planting all the poles around Cemetery Crossing which is just to the south of Goat Tunnel.
Careful observation and a lot of detailed photographs on many research visits have paid dividends.
I recall the very first encounter was between a farm tractor with a trailer, with a Garratt made all the papers at the time.
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