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Disappearing infrastructure and ‘One offs’ In 2022, Viterra in South Australia has been demolishing silo complexes that have been standing for decades. The consolidation of grain receival points has meant that smaller silo complexes have been closed in favour of high capacity super-efficient facilities, (see AMRM December 2020 issue 345, ‘A Location to Model - Bowmans’). Long Plains and Mallala have had their silos demolished in 2022. It's a good time to remind modellers not to become complacent, get out there and take photos of railway infrastructure before it disappears! One offs An emerging trend in the United Kingdom (UK) is model manufacturers producing models of experimental or ‘one off’ prototypes or prototypes that only had a small number of examples. In the UK market these types of models have proven to be…