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Competition entry video for #OperationShuntIt organised by Scale Model Scenery and Railway Modellers. Creating a shunting puzzle on a baseboard 110cm by 22cm that needed to be imaginative, innovative and with operational interest. Designed to fix exactly onto a Scale Model Scenery BB017 baseboard. Rainbows for lots of reasons have many meanings – they can be seen to stand for happiness, inclusivity, equality, hope, kindness and peace. The Rainbow Railway aims to recognise and celebrate all of these different meanings. Rainbows like almost everything are actually made in a factory. Not just any factory but the Rainbow Factory. This factory uses a secret formula to make the rainbows that are released into the sky via a special chimney. The trouble with rainbows and them being a little bit magical is that the formula to make them constantly changes and requires the colours to keep being mixed up in a different order. The factory workers found that continually moving the ingredients about into a different order was really rather tiring so they decided that – like all good people do – a train was needed, and not just any train – the Rainbow Railway. A train they thought could easy swap the ingredients around using correctly coloured trucks for each colour and by shunting the ingredients held in these colourful trucks into the ever-changing right order. The Rainbow Railway has one engine and seven trucks. Each truck holds a different magical colour for the rainbow which must be shunted together in exactly the right order to make rainbows. The challenge comes in that each siding is only big enough to hold a few trucks – giving a bit of a puzzle every time to the train crew on how to swap the trucks around in the space available to make the right mix again. The shunting challenge comes in that the sidings are only just long enough to hold either 3, 4 or 5 trucks at a time meaning careful planning and positioning of the trucks for shunting is required to solve the puzzle.