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Not sure if this is cheap, but well beyond my pocket https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15-INCH-GAUGE-LIVE-STEAM-MINIATURE-NARROW-GAUGE-RAILWAY-STEAM-CRANE/292469055725?hash=item441883a0ed:g:ExMAAOSwIStakb4K

Have you got space in the back garden for a shed or chalet? This may be a lot less work and retain your garage for other purposes

450 Albion St, Wall Heath, Kingswinford DY6 0JP Phone: 01384 278206 Its easier to copy and paste a search result than post a suggestion of what to do!

The more you guys talk up the price point the more that Bachmann are likely to charge as they will make a consensus that people are willing to pay that much.

DCC is the same principle, the frog is wired via a switch according to which direction the point is set. As you rightly suggest it is better to extend the crossing (frog) beyond the point and insert the insulated rail joiners further down the line, this then saves the possibility of DCC shorts on this new type of frog as previously discusses earlier in this thread and also stops locos running into the point the wrong way when the switches are set against it. It is a myth that points are wired differently for DC and DCC, the wiring should be the same.

Hopefully you had a good trip the way you went

Would you be better going via A31/M27/M3/A34/M40/M42? Thats the way I go from Poole and it cuts out all the rural roads over to the M5

I think the opposite, they have to recover the cost of the moulds, so I would think they would carry on production for a while

Preparing the venue tomorrow

Poole Grammar School, Gravel Hill, Poole, Dorset BH17 9JUOPENING TIMES: SUNDAY 5th November 2017 10.30am-4.30pm ADMISSION: Adults £5.00 Children £3.50 Family £10.00 This is the annual exhibition for the Poole and District Model Railway Society and this year we have a great selection of layouts from far and wide as well as many traders and demonstrations. We will also have one of our layouts on display which is under construction so yo can see what we do; and if you came last year you will see a huge difference. CONTACT: 07766108827 QUICKINFO: L:16 T:7 CS Md List of Traders Attending : AspireBh Enterprises Ian Shave Model Railway Solutions Railroom Electronics R&t Model Railways Ray Heard List of Layouts Attending : Aire Main Yard - EM GaugeBottle Kiln Lane - OO9 Scale Itchen End Goods Dept - O Gauge Horsethief Bridge - N Scale Lulworth Castle - OO Gauge Mallingford - N Gauge North Ealing - TT Gauge Parkstone Goods - O Gauge Poole (Club Layout) - OO Rosedale - O Gauge Shad Dock - OO Gauge Whitecross Street - OO Gauge Wiveliscombe - OO Gauge U-Shunt - O Gauge Zevendaal - HO Scale Kids Layout - OO List of Demonstrations : List of Other Displays : Andy May DCC & Computer Control The Slim Gauge Society Swanage Railway

Agreed, we all liked to look at the engines, the boring bit was looking at empty track when they had moved on

The Hornby Duchess of course, its the star of the show. When we all went train spotting we collected the engine numbers, nobody looked at the track

So Bullhead is called 'The Double Mushroom' en Francais?

Most plank layouts are probably viewed from the side, and if they are at a certain height you cannot see the guage difference between OO and EM,P4 as you are looking side on. That's what I'm doing for my next layout

Probably Suck, Dyson make the worst vacuum cleaners we have ever bought, now if Meile were to make an electric car then that would be different, I would buy one.

There would not only be reduced plastic and nickel silver material usage quantities (both of which are purchased in units of weight) but also due to longer production runs the injection moulding machine costs would be lower as there would be fewer tool changes and machine set up costs. Also the cost of stockholding is reduced, and as there are likely to be more sold, packaging and transportation costs will be less. According to your assumptions hand assembly costs will be the same, but as the unit is smaller then the hand movements will not be as great in distance therefore there should be more units made per hour. I could go on but I believe that there is a price point on this product beyond which a lot of people will not go beyond. In the real world everyone has a budget whether it is for modelling or their own total household budget and £40 is too rich for me, at that price 'I'm out' as they say.

Who predicted that, was it Peco? The cost breakdown does not necessarily follow the O guage values as it is likely that volumes will be greater therefore there will be economies of larger production runs. I think the marketing people at Peco need to consider pricing carefully, as they haven't launched anything like this before and if they don't get it right it will be dead in the water

And me!

Did he mention anything on price?

Any news on price?

Like I was, and the thermometer was at 100 F on the sunny wall here in Poole, I must be mad when I could be looking at your art Allan.

Being an eternal optimist I don't see any reason to worry, the future of the locomotive is obvious and wrecks in far worse condition have been restored from Barry scrapyard, so we should all support the Swanage Railway in any efforts they make to bring it back from the neglected state that has occurred whilst being in the national collection

Looking at this from the opposite position, every 00 model locomotive is a 4 mm scale model of a 4' 8 1/2" gauge prototype which has been re-gauged to 4' 1 1/2" Yes?

I think the 'Trains' word is still there, its in red and merges with the background of the overall red livery

You can remove the spring and replace the cover, therefore there is no 'visual' mutilation