A clutch of 03s?
It all started with 03382 as the catalyst for the first Gerald Road. The lure of the smallest Farish diesel shunter, fuelled I’m sure by the childhood memories of Dad’s Mainline OO gauge example and how I used to just go and open the box and stare at it sometimes - somehow its perfect form felt unobtainable, unachievable to me and my Lima models… Now 03382 left with the second Gerald Road - and as did 03162 later - yet they’re still multiplying here. It’s a lovely model, a classic miniature where the spirit has been captured yet the overscale rods and coarse wheels only add to the excitement, reminding the child inside of me just how small these are… For that must be part of it right? Small things are exciting! But what else fuels this fascination. Memory is a cruel mistress - offering both sanctuary and longing, the first fleeting the second less so - and so nostalgic becomes tinged with sadness. I can’t relive those experiences of gently opening the black and yellow box, s...
