In related news, a model railway (we are talking HO/OO gauge) was trashed a few weeks before this incident. Rod Stewart - himself into trains - decided to donat

In related news, a model railway (we are talking HO/OO gauge) was trashed a few weeks before this incident. Rod Stewart - himself into trains - decided to donate extremely generously to make things better: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/20/rod-stewart-donates-10000-model-railway-club-vandalised-market-deeping https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/20/rod-stewart-... Regarding the actual story - where they could have done with Rod Stewart donating - those trains really do take five to ten years to build. You can get castings of some parts such as wheels but then you need to put them into the lathe and do many other processes to get the finished article. Even with an 0-6-0 train that is a lot to get right. Getting a boiler built and tested is a major landmark in the whole process. There is as much to put together as on a full size 'prototype' train as on the model version, some parts are actually harder to make in miniature. Incidentally 'prototype' is the railway modelling term for a full size train. This could definitely be used in software engineering, e.g. if making a MAME video game cabinet the original from the 1980's could be the 'prototype'. If getting things like the buttons right happens then they could be commended as 'prototypical'.