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Andy LMRG

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  1. Thank you everyone - I'll follow up all the leads. Just rejoined RMWeb - baffled me at first as having been away for a while I didn't realise it had restarted. Great resource!
  2. We use Kadees throughout - partly to improve inter-vehicle spacing and partly for ease of uncoupling. For the latter we started with magnets underneath the track. They certainly uncouple a treat - draw the vehicles over stop, ease couplings by setting back a fraction, and then away you do - either leaving the vehicle there or (preferably) propelling away into a siding. Unfortunately on lightly loaded wagons there is a tendency to uncouple when you do not want them to, and we are progressively changing to electromagnets underneath the track - harder to fit because you need a hole and more clearance - but really work a treat. Kadees do need to be very carefully set up so worth buying their height gauge and checking what you buy. But if someone has gone to the (sometimes not inconsiderable) trouble of fitting Kadees and they've done it right (use the gauge) you'll save yourself much work.
  3. As a Group we are modelling the highlands of Scotland - with considerable licence in that for example Fort William is rather closer to Glasgow than it should be! Nonetheless we are interested in what wagons Alcan used for their Aluminium production in the 60s & 70s. We've found one photo on w4 FORT WILLIAM to MALLAIG Ernies Scottish Railway Archive @ fotopic.net but are unsure of the date but looks a bit modern. And as a matter of interest what do they use today? We are assuming we will have to modify a RTR model and if anyone has any suggestions on which to base it on we'd be most grateful.
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