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Vecchio

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    Modeling in general, not only model trains. This helps if it comes to motorising things with RC servos. For me the function is important, I love DCC and gadgets like megapoints controller.

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  1. Another voice for z21. Works great, easy to understand, no more numbers to remember if you use a smart phone or tablet as a controller. 3A output, so you can have several locos running at the same time. Point control (if you want to use it) works very well, also here no numbers, but a graphic representation of your layout on phone or tablet. rout programming, and the route is actually visible. If you want feedback and computer control go for the black one (Z21), if not the white one (z21) saves you a lot of money and does all I said before. Use it in the club (Frimingham) and also at home (Donnersbachkogel).
  2. My personal opinion is you can mix Bachmann and Accurascale coaches. The west coast railway logo may give it away, the differences in colour I do not see as a problem. Don't put your noses too close to your layouts and you may not notice... 😄
  3. well - the next plus one generation of railway modelers arrived a few weeks before my Mark 2b coaches. And they were a bit early as it frequently happens with twins... boys by the way.
  4. Delivery arrived one hour ago, well it was worth the wait. I am quite impressed.
  5. For me Z21 is the best system currently on the market. We using it since several years on our 0-gauge club layout, and this week I introduce it also for the 00 club layout. Who wants can still use a wired controller, even with a knob (Roco multimouse or Lenz LH100), with all the disadvantages of the old (NCE) system. And who wants can use their own smart phone or tablet. We will have a club database, so everybody can add his locos at home and then we copy them together onto the club database. Works a treat.
  6. Just for your information - I use RC servos, an I used micro switches actuated by the servo arm.
  7. Having had problems with switches closing too early or opening too late I scrapped them all and use frog juicers only. Works a treat. Donnersbachkogel uses approximately 40 of them. No issues so far. Layout in use since beginning of 2020.
  8. I suppose trouble is starting where one manufacturer uses also logic functions (needs extra electronics for functions that consume current), while others have all function outputs amplified to 100mA... I don't write who is who, some readers may guess it.
  9. Well the chipping of my blue and white express train didn't go too well, even I found a nice space for the speaker and the stay alive. Dyslexic people should always check their work before they switch on... I have soldered the first 4 wires correct to the 8-pin plug, but the second 4 in mirror image... Understandable that the decoder didn't like it. Will see what the Austrians say. On its way after filling in a customs declaration...😑 IMG20240203104035
  10. IMG20240129202628 Together it is, and now some people will ask themselves "what on earth did he do?" Well, I ballasted the fiddle yard, there will also be some greenery. Why should a fiddle yard always look like track wacked to a board? I have seen a few 'green' fiddle yards, and they look better. Gives also the operators something to look at. IMG20240129202635 Now I can run much longer trains than before, also I can use all of my models, before it was restricted because of the radius. For instance the 4010 (the white express train for those not familiar with Austrian trains of the last century) I couldn't use. Point control is done via DCC and servos. The Z21 makes it easy by allowing routes. One click, all points set. IMG20240129202824 There is a little video showing one round on the layout. VID20240129202428
  11. Some more work on the layout. I found out that for some reason the old and the new part are different in height. 2.2cm. Means all legs out, insert nuts for adjustable legs out, cut them, all back in... on we go, leg after leg... IMG20240121105947 The overhead line gets tested on the new bit. IMG20240128121611 Now everything is closed again, the landscape still needs a little bit of plaster and paint to get back to normal. IMG20240128192138 View from the fiddle yard side. IMG20240128192123 Also a few electric connections needed to be made, to get power and DCC signal to the fiddle yard. IMG20240128175630 Hope I can get it all together tomorrow.
  12. Germany (and other countries) used wire ropes also for point control, and this is what the Artitec levers are for. If you want a nice UK prototypical signal box interior go to Severn Models.
  13. Krois is a source for scenic Austrian small stuff. His lit up telephone box is very authentic. Also his signals are good, similar quality to alpha signal and a similar cost. At Krois you can decide which extra lights you want on the signal, a feature I like. Also Johann is good for a chat, every time I rented a car in Vienna I paid him a visit. (Shop in Schwechat, 10min from the airport). By the way - all signals on Donnersbachkogel are from Krois.
  14. Hi Craig, also size is a problem. Even your layout is quite large, an exact scale model of a Semmering viaduct may be problematic. I have to say your viaduct is very close to the real thing. Hope you will be at an exhibition more south, Glasgow is a bit distant for me, Gaydon may be possible...
  15. I do like the viaduct, it is a bit like those on the Semmering Bahn. Also the background behind your viaduct looks like the mountains in this area. I spent a lot of time there, my parents had a small house there, just 50m from the track in the village called Klamm am Semmering. Especially in the summer, with the windows open, you could hear the trains quite a bit. But after a few days you get used to them, and you sleep undisturbed. Also I saw the layout at Alexandra palace and we had some conversation on this forum. Second biggest viaduct of the Semmering, Wagnergraben. It is a two storey viaduct. Renovation has just started, therefore temporary cables can be seen. 150m from my parents house. Taken in October 2017. Renovation finished 2021. Railjet coming up, castle of Klamm in the background. 20171023_113117
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