Over here in Britain, our National Railway Museum in York is planning a major event for 2013. Bringing together all 6 of the remaining London and North Eastern Railway A4 4-6-2 Pacifics for the 75th anniversary fo 4468 Mallard's 126mph steam world record. This includes borrowing 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower from the USA and 60010 Dominion of Canada from Canada. Nothing is set in stone, due to funds and availability etc but this could be the biggest event of 2013 in the UK, something that might not be reproduced again...
If the museums think it is fesable, the 2 overseas locos will be brought over for a short period of time which may even include some cosmetic restoration etc.
I will keep you informed if anyone is interested.

I had a thought earlier, i was reading the 'where is sodro?' thread and thought about doing a thread where a story can be written. Here are the rules: your part of the story should be no longer than 10 lines, you should make sure the storyline is nothing rude, no silly business like thomas eat an ice cream etc, you cannot post twice in a row (let someone else have a go!) and make sure it will join onto the section before your post without and confusion or delay. Ok i will start off:
Oliver was shunting at Knapford yard, he was making a train ready for Edward to take to the mainland. Sir Topham Hatt came over to see him.
'Oliver, once you have finished here, i would like you to go to the quarry and help Bill and Ben', he boomed.
'Wheres Mavis?' Oliver enquired.
'She is being repaired after having too much dust from the quarry go into her radiator', he replied.
'Right ok sir, i will be there right away!' Oliver beemed.
Sir Topham Hatt then left for the station. Edward soon arrived to take the train. Once he had gone, Oliver set off for the quarry.

Okay, whos next? 

I was thinking earlier, a lot of these requests in wishlists will proberly be ignored, so why not have a go yourself? Faces wouldnt be hard to do, get some milliput and mould faces, then stick them on the desired stock. An easy one would be spitful brakevan, get a bachmann UK 20 ton brakevan and mould a face on the one end, job done! There are others that are easy while sme more could be a little difficult, Harvey, Lady etc. I am going to attempt the prototype on which Harvey is based on though, hopefully it will turn out alright.

i dont know whether this has been posted else where but oh well 
so what are your favourite episodes? they can be from season 1 to 13 and cn include the films. mine would have to be a close shave, double teething trouble, brakevan, busy going backwards, thomas and the special letter and gordon takes a tumble. plus what are your top 5 steamies and top 5 diesels? mine would be 1 duck, 2 donald, 3 oliver, 4 henry, and 5 stepney for steam, 1 bo-co, 2 derek, 3 mavis, 4 dodge/splatter and 5 salty for diesels.

i am planning on making an exibition layout based on parts key parts of the island of sodor. it will be mainly bachmann thomas items aswell as a couple of from hornby. the areas from sodor are knapford station, gordons hill and henry's tunnel. the line through these places will be double track and will go into a fiddle yard at the back. any trains like gordon's express will leave the fiddle yard go through knapford and up the hill, being banked by either toby or edward. the stock will be all the bachmann locos and rolling stock, hornby's murdoch, dart, stepney, oliver and some of the rolling stock (old slowcoach etc) also i plan to get some more annie and clarabel's to create rakes of red branchline coaches.
what do you guys think?

waht sets would you like to see appear in the future? you dont have to stick to the current stock, make it you fantasy sets! price is not an issue
for me i would have:
flying kipper, henry with 5 box vans and a brakevan
the circus set, henry with 2 cattle vans, an open wagon, a flatbed and brakevn in circus colours
the close shave, duck with a lime wagon, box van, open wagon, brakevan, edward and a barbers shop 
duke and duchess of boxwood, spencer and special coach
james and the queen of sodor, james flatbed with the queen of sodor barge and brakevan
escape! oliver, toad (both rusty, with grafitti) and douglas

lets here your ideas! 

hi everyone, i have recently bought emily and mtching coaches and am very pleased with it. i tried it with 2 bachmann british railways mark 1 coaches nd she managed to haul them with ease. after adding her 2 coaches on she began to slip, but 2 mark 1s will be enough for what i pln to have her with. anyway i just wanted to know about the haulage capacity of the other locos. i have recently ordered bill and ben and should be getting the others soon.
thanks
kenny