OO Gauge Across the Pond: First run of my Bachmann London Underground S7/8 Stock (2.17.24)

I purchased this 4-carriage S7/8 set last August when my wife and I visited the UK and it has been packed away. I later added the 5th carriage off eBay. Set is DCC ready so I’ll have to drop a decoder in it for a more enhanced experience.

Don’t have a layout at home so cleared out the dining room, set up the three 36” x 80” hollow core doors that I used for my Christmas layout and ran a few laps on a Kato Unitrack 63” x 102” oval with some other London themed merchandise around it that I also bought across the pond.

I do need to obtain in OO gauge some of the various British regional passenger rail stock (South Western Railway, etc.) that I rode/saw on my trip.

For my fellow aviation enthusiasts, you’ll see in the background “forced perspective” LOL a British Airways Super VC10 from my 1/100 scale custom made airliner collection. The VC10 is sporting the Negus livery that British Airways used from 1974-1985 and what I remember seeing in my early teen years at the British Airways terminal at JFK Airport before BA phased them out in 1981.