More fiddle yard roads on Minffordd means room for more trains, which means we need more locomotives to haul them.
Now that's the definition of a virtuous circle for a railway modeller if ever I heard one!
So for the Model Rail Scotland show in a couple of weeks we're augmenting our fleet with another Cambrian stalwart, a Standard 4MT tender.
By happy coincidence it is a loco which spent around six months based at Machynlleth between 1962-63 so it no doubt passed through Minffordd many times.
This pre-loved Bachmann model arrived in Santa's sleigh a couple of months ago and has been waiting in the queue to be chipped and speaker fitted.
And what a speaker!
I'm still a complete novice about this DCC business so I rely on some expert friends who recommended what looks like some kind of miniaturised subwoofer which just about squeezes into the tender space.
My friend said it would be loud - he wasn't exaggerating.
That's probably no bad thing.
At the first two shows we've taken Minffordd to we've been positively deafened by DCC diesels on neighbouring layouts, with owners of whistling English Electric types who like to turn to volume up to 11.
Well, now we can play them at their own game if it happens again
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