ETS make a tinplate Garrett. I'd love one of those. I never really fell for them until I saw one running in the Transvaal. I've admired them as sheer genius ever since.
Back to ETS, their stuff is really nicely done. It's a bit pricey but worth it; just so nicely made.
There is a company called Darstaed, who make near-scale locos and carriages that really are rock solid and smoothly done. I bought an LMS Jinty of theirs some years ago when my son was young. It ran on DC but was three-rail coarse. I put a rectifier and reversing circuit in it, changed the couplings to Hornby, and my son and I cracked out all my old Hornby wagons that I ran with clockwork locos. It worked a treat, running on the track opposite my old electric Hornby Flying Scotsman hauling its mixed rake of #1 LNER teak and a lone LMS red carriage.
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