...and the Class 399 departs...

Regular readers might wonder why the long dreamed for class 399 has not featured more on this blog. The locomotive has, sadly, been little short of a complete failure. The redesign by Regner from live steam to electric propulsion shows, in my opinion, some very serious design flaws and the locomotive has simply failed to operate reliably. It will now be returned to Martin's Models for investigation and repair. In my view a locomotive that cost much more than any LGB locomotive and which took two years to be redesigned, constructed and delivered, should work properly. It may look nice but I did not buy it as an ornament. Words cannot convey my disappointment.