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I assume a Kadee No.17 will work just as well.

I think the Electrostar family is a good idea too.

I'd have thought you would go for Brains Dark.

Was he a cockney? They are the ones most likely to pronounce 'contrate' as 'contrite'/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wherefore

***ERROR*** "Wherefore" does not mean "Where".

Yes, please, if you're serious.

Great Aunt Maria was a particularly horrible specimen, but she was in the Lake District, and so is off-topic here.

While we are on the subject of DCC, as illustrated by @Rising Standards a couple of messages back, can anyone suggest how one might go about obtaining a few printed circuit boards with the Next18 decoder socket on them. I have several ancient 57xx and 8750s that have ancient wires-only decoders fitted, and I'd like to retire those decoders and use them for other purposes, such as lighting, etc., and replace them with more modern ones such as the Zimo MX618N18.

Yesterday I had a bit of an ooh-nasty with my 94xx. It was running at step 96/128 pushing my track cleaner and pulling two coaches, when it derailed and fell four feet from the baseboard onto the floor. Three things broke: the chimney broke cleanly at the bottom of the "copper" cap (which looks more like brass to me); the left-hand front buffer, which is bent out of shape; and the front coupling assembly which broke into four parts. So I need to ask Bachmann if they can supply me with 2 spare parts: one buffer and one of those dovetail NEM pockets. A new coupling is not required as I had replaced the tension-locks with Kadee 19s, and I have a few of those in stock. Replacing the loco on the track, I found that in all other respects it works perfectly.

Hi, Bernard. Why is your avatar an east German flag?

So confiscate both. And if the miscreant complains they are not theirs, tell them that they are responsible for the value of the goods confiscated to the owner(s) thereof.

There is an obvious answer to this question, but I'm likely to get banned if I bring politics into our discussions here.

Mine arrived just before lunch today. As I have a hospital appointment this afternoon, I shall defer playing with it until tomorrow.

It's not by Mozart (1756-1791), as I think you know. Mozart wrote a set of twelve variations (published 1781-2) on the tune, which Wikipedia says dates from 1740, but was first published in1761.

Because Americans call a 1-cent coin a penny.

Not round here they can't. Passenger trains (which is the majority of the traffic) are all EMUs, with class 66s on the relatively few freights. No DMUs at all.

As I understand it, the first time crossing angles were applied to British track was in the Protofour series of articles in the Model Railway Constructor in the 1960s.

Have you tried undoing the pony truck fixing screws half a turn?

Is this any help?

Yes for bogie stock. I had that problem with Hornby's 2Bil and 2Hal units running up and down the helix on my layout. My solution was to couple them within the units with Kadee 17s with the coupler pin cut off and inserted upside down into the NEM pockets

Coupler heads locking rigidly together are bad news, as that will result in derailments when the track twists, as it will when it curves going uphill or downhill, as in a helix. You shouldn't get buffer-locking if you only have one buffer on each coach end, and a rubbing-plate for the buffer to contact. Oh yes they do, unless you run short trains; that's why they have the word "lock" in their name. I complained about them many times in the past when they caused derailments on my garden railway because they locked the train into a straight line and it wouldn't go round the 10-foot and larger radius curves on my garden railway. I am looking to reproduce the SECR sets that there are photos of in "Railways of Beckenham".

How would one go about making close-coupled sets with these coaches? Obviously one would have to remove one buffer from each end (which side?) or would one remove both buffers and replace one with a shorter buffer? Then one would have to find a shorter coupling, making sure the set will go round radius 2 curves with no trouble. Anything else?

I think Hornby ought to issue the clerestories with non-clerestory roofs, as another set of generic coaches.

Before I decided that I didn't believe in all that stuff, the Catholic church called their censers thuribles.