Yellow Submarine??? Obviously.
In 1968 a popular music entertainment group called "The Beatles" created a cartoon film, aimed at children. Then in 1969 a long playing gramophone record appeared with a similar title. The eponymous song was hugely successful.
The singer of this particular ditty was one Richard (now Sir Richard) Starkey, a member of said group of entertainers. fbb understands that he used a different stage name taken from his tendency to consume a noted brand of torus shaped potato based snacks.
Such is fbb's encyclopedic knowledge of popular music culture from the late 1960s.
Indeed, a later gramophone record of the same song was on sale with, it would appear, a large letter "A" incised on both sides.
The submarine in question, probably ficticious ...
... included cartoon style pictures of the celebrated foursome gazing into the blackness of the ocean via foot adjacent portholes.
Oddly, the cartoon faces on the tank wagon are different!
Identifying which cartoon set is a correct replica of the original is way beyond fbb's pay grade, but the question posed in yesterday's blog remains
Would blog readers want such a wagon on their model railway, be the model real, speculative of philosophical.
It is a well-known and much loathed loved vlogger who thinks the model is "tat". 
Strangely, Mart Runes (pictured above), who earns a living producing his videos, is often willing to denigrate similar Hornby models ...
... but is perversely happy in his reviews of other ficticious railway rolling stock. He was notably "excited" by the N gauge Toby ...
... by Bachmann, despite the fact that no such loco ever existed in reality.
Mart doesn't often review wagons, but the Hornby tanker ...
... from the Thomas stories, although no longer available, is not quite so "tat-full" as the Bachmann version.
Would Mart agree that these Rapido utterly false models of a fireless tank engine plus wagon ...
This craze for paying for advertising wagons is on the increase. Would you want to pay Rails of Sheffield for the dubious privilege of advertising ...
... erm, Rails of Sheffield? And there is £4 post'n'packing to add!
fbb is more sanguine about this vitally important debate. Hornby suffered some horrific losses in their most recent published accounts.
If the company is to continue in business, it needs to find more ways of making money. If that can be achieved by selling "tat", such sales may protect the company and ensure its survival.
Hornby's losses are measured in ££ Millions.
Various bits if the UK model industry have disappeared before (Trix, Hornby Dublo, Triang - twice, Airfix, Beatties retail, Hattons retail, to name but a few.) Even Bachmann posted a loss recently.
Maybe fbb should buy a Beatles Yellow Submarine tank wagon to help out?
Cheap as chips!
Back To The Real World ...
... Cornwall Consequences
Thanks to a report from Roger French (Bus and Train User blog), fbb can summarise events in Cornwall.
One consequence of GoAhead's assumption of First's Cornwall's network has been an increase in wrongly liveried buses. Some bus watchers have complained that Plymouth City (also GoAhead) is short of buses because many have gone to Cornwall ...
... even posh new motors.
One very obvious change is the improvements at Camborne bus station. Under First's ownership, it had become very dowdy with shop, waiting room and enquiry office ...
... all closed. It now has GoAhead and/or Kernow branding and looks a lot better.
New timetable books and a larger separate map have all appeared.
Roger also took a trip on the route 6 to not-quite Mousehole, experiencing the turn at the new turn-short terminus. fbb is surprised that neither the Council not the Police have objected.
The safest (least dangerous) turn, as modelled by another Plymouth City bus, is to pull forward from the alighting stop, blocking the whole road ...
... then reverse round a blind corner into a side road ...
... avoiding contact with the stone wall on the left. 
Then it is quite steeply up a hill ...
It is not the safest of turns. Ex bus driver fbb would be terrified!
It makes manoeuvering at Mousehole harbour side ...
... seem a minor matter ...
... compared with manipulating a mighty motor bus at the new and disappointing terminus.
Bring back the LHS.
Who Is This Man?
He seems to turn up at all sorts of train "happenings" ...
... in wide-ranging locations. fbb hopes this is not a real live female type woman with very stiff legs ...
She would be a real dummy to get herself photographed in that embarrassing position!
... and no knickers!
How clever of Mr Hardhat to stand so still and hold that bewildered expression every time for the camera!
Is she real ...
... or plastic? Is she appropriately dressed for a visit to an industrial area? He is as surprised as we are!
Back to sanity near Sheffield tomorrow.
P.S. More Tat ...
... also from Rapido?
Chortle, chortle.
Next Mini-Switzerland blog : Mon 23rd Feb
