Well since you want credit for it -I will give you it! I will even forward you a few BILLION Zimbabwe Dollar (promisery notes) to cover Accucraft’s failings to provide you with an income from it!!!
Dave, somethings up with the Accu site, I get the dreaded “Access Forbidden” prompt but the e-store and the British site are fine, maybe I pe’od the Elders of the Internet (or crashed their system when too many people went to look) [:$]
Here is the little beasty again, at the MSRP they are asking I am hoping to be able to swing one sometime next year, I’ll call it “Little Ripper” [(-D]
We’ll see how the finances shape up once this comes out ( I’m still eyeing a few Lil’ Big Haulers), on the other site someone mentioned that Accu has changed their pricing structures so finding really sharp discounts is no longer possible, but even so I remember when the Ruby kits came out and those were around $450, that was for a kit! This is RTR ! That alone is a big enticement.
Obviously the engine is capable of very high speeds! The photo shows a short stubby engine whilst the specs state that it is 154.70inches… This can only be a classic example of the Lorentz-Fitzgerald field contraction effect -thus the photo was taken of the loco as it was travelling at near the speed of light. Given the rough dimensions of the width of the object then the apparent contraction effect is consistent with a speed of roughly 0.609 C
Alternatively someone could have got the millimetre and inches mixed up…
regards
ralph
Post Scriptumn: VIc your wife has it easy! When my wife travels to France her name means “Piano” and when we go to Germany her name means “Cross eyed”…