Dear Mr. Bach-Man
I was wondering, can you purchase those little gray hooks on the Bachmann Thomas & Friends engines?   I want to get some to put on the rolling stock and the back of my Percy.  Am I able to get those or not?
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Thanks.

That was same with my Percy.  James, Toby, Gordon, and Thomas didn't have em.  Well Thomas came in a set.

There is to be a town on that top of that.  There is a road on the side that leads to the station.   So Guilford Guy what do you think?

Hello Guys
Here is a look at the tunnel that I and the gang have been working on for the FPTP layout.  The tunnel is not yet finished yet as I still need to buy the portholes and Justin and Frank need to landscape the walls a little.  I also need to look for some buildings to put on top of the tunnel for a town.  I need to find a station for down under the tunnel.  After I get this whole tunnel thing done I can landscape around that and then start on adding a bit onto the other end of my layout for a round house.  Well here are some pics of the tunnel.  Enjoy.




These are pics of what the area looked like before.  Since I was on a tight schedule of trying to get this layout done enough so I could take it to the train show I just put a hill area at that end of the layout.


Well since I was putting the tunnel in like it is in the instruction book for the layout that first 2 feet of plaster and news paper on the side of the layout had to go.





I started to cut cardboard and hot glue it together then the tunnel started to actually look like a tunnel.





Justin had got me more cardboard so I could start the road way that travels up from the station to the town.  B.T.W. That red truck is the Sanford and Son Salvage truck.  L.O.L.




Well I thought that I was done but after sticking the level on the top of the tunnel I noticed it was not level.  Well the last thing in my mind was having to go back to the drawing board.  Well after that I cut out more cardboard.




Well I and Frank soon had the dang thing level.  After leveling it though the top had become bigger.  If I don’t look to happy in the 3rd picture I ain’t.  That was just miserable trying to make that dang roof fit.



Soon the last tunnel wall was put up the 3 of us were done.




Well here is a look at the tunnel fully put together.  Now all I need to do is get the gang around another time again and we can start on part 2 of the project.

Not sure if you’d be up to it HenryBlue but I have an idea you could try.  Why not make a green James like the one that was in the Christopher Awdry story Thomas and the Breakdown Train.  It’s just an idea you don’t have to do it if you don’t want to.

Well you could try to make some chains.  Then put a gray hook on all your Bachmann Thomas & Friends.  This is what I did with mine.  If you look you can see I have them on everything.



Look very hard and you can see the one on the milk van.