[Trev]

I remember reading a while ago about a bloke who built a garden railway out of the oddest materials. For example, he used plastic curtain track as rails, pinned to home made sleepers. The loco's were all home made, using parts from Mamod steam engines, battery powered motor cars etc etc. None of the stock was in any way prototypical,but it all bore some resemblance to stock which just 'might' have run, possibly, at some time, maybe, in the past. And it was really interesting. He ran the system as a proper railway (a bit like the Sherwood Section of popular fame), but it was so slow he could actually walk alongside the trains and control them as he went along. I think that the article was in 'Model Railway Enthusiast'.

I like the idea of modelling something (such as a flatcar converted to a locomotive) for which there is no discernible prototype, but it's something that might have been possible. And something resembling a mobile privvy?...well, you never know!