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Re: Boxes in the loft. I have logged all of my stock ( on the layout ) and boxes (in the loft) in a simple piece of software called Model Train Catalogue. Thus when the time comes my executors have a fighting chance to match them up

THanks we are going to Cologne for the Christmas Markets ans i am going to be given some time on my own for good behaviour

Good job with the anti-macassar. I have a set waiting to go on. Any tips or problems encountered?

Shold be a good day. Talking about APT-E both prototype and model as well as POP train model and other exciting stuff. Details here https://www.merg.org.uk/merg_wiki/doku.php?id=public%3Ayorkshire&do=export_pdf

....erm. Should it not have a funnel?

It,s a Lego APT-E on the Facebook “official APT and APT- AG” group

It,s a Lego APT-E on the Facebook “official APT and APT- AG” group

Enterprising Lego effort from Japan https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=779094378966785&set=pcb.890173904503757&type=3&theater&ifg=1

I shall be making creative use of the Channel Tunnel to allow one onto my European layout. (Well I already have an APT-E and Tornado + Pullmans).

Seeking a book I am Looking for a copy of “Lesser Railways of the Yorkshire Dales” if anyone has a copy going at a sensible price

Just looking on the Linda Tinker books website which says “.........HOWEVER, AT THE MOMENT, WE ARE UNLIKELY TO BUY ANY UK RAILWAY BOOKS, due to our shelves being full, and due to the glut of these titles reaching the market. In 2016, we had well over 300 requests to buy books, and only bought 12 collections. “

I follow this railway book group on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/927155074023912/ and i have to say that,apart from one sale of a reasonably rare book it has been disappointing for me. I agree with post #2 about bottom dropping,

Not to mention blurred!

That’s the joy of art, so many different but equally valid views. I really like his railway based sketches which are not photograpic in any way, imhave a number of his signed prints but have never been able to afford an original! Sadly i feel that prints, however good, never capture the feel fo an original such as “Oil, Muck and Sunlight”

Agreed, it’s a “taking the Micky” tax of about £55 if you compare it with a certain well known Liverpool based emporium!

I am checking the list we used as I build my POP. I will publish it once I have validated it but I have found a few errors so I want to check the rest before I go public!

American English vs English English

You can often get some good vehicle ( and other ) bargains from the Miniatur Wunderland online shop here http://shop.miniatur-wunderland.de/modellbaumaterial.html?cat=123

Thanks, I have only recently joined this thread an have not yet searched back through time!

i wonder if any of you know the work of Hans Baluschek? There are a number of his works in the Bröhan-Museum in Berlin. I find them quite moving in their frank portal of working people.

OK Good times! I am now the proud owner of 11 bags containing many 3D printed parts which, when assembled in the right way, should give me my POP train. The detail is wonderful, a tribute to Paul's time and effort in producing the 3d files. I am indebted to Bob Gledhill, author of “Laser Cutting and 3-D Printing for Railway Modellers” who printed off the set of parts for me. Obviously most parts needed to be printed twice, one for each of the PC units, but some needed more than that and a few are specific to PC3 or PC 4 only. Bob printed the parts using a list that I created by scrutinising the magnificent manual that Paul and Kit produced. As I build the model I will check that I got the numbers correct and will publish the list as an aid to others who may wish to tackle a set of print runs. My initial check revealed one major miscount - you need 3 bogies and I only listed 2! More report as I start the build proper

I fitted my own track on foam underlay in my wawiko cases. They are connected with detachable contacts to allow DCC control for lights, sounds and to drive it onto the layout via an adaptor I constructed

Well a lot of it is old stuff so it must be valuable

I got these from http://www.wawiko.com in Germany. They are a slightly cheaper version of train-safe

In a display tube, powered up so the light show.......enjoyment abounds even when not running!