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  1. woodenhead
    Movement, well there has been movement, it's not currently moving and is silent, but it has moved
  2. woodenhead
    Saw this at Doncaster, at the Racecourse, they were having some sort of exhibition thing, there were lots of other model railways there too, and places where you could buy model locos and other bits and pieces. I remember Andy Y was there too, in person, he was lent up against another model railway in the foyer. I think there used to be lots of these things in the past, almost every weekend at times. Such a long time ago, memories fade. But back to the model, it was excellent in the flesh and comes back to the old adage, it's not how much track you can lay down and how many locomotives you can fit on your railway at one time, but how well you capture the character of what it is you are modelling.
  3. woodenhead
    From the horses mouth at Bachmann https://www.Bachmann.co.uk/product/category/161/class-40-disc-headcode-40012-'aureol'-br-blue/371-184. The 31 is the same as are the 8fs, the Castle is Next18 but there is only provision for a speaker - which according to youchoos is a simple fit as a result of this. Where it gets messy is with the Class 108 - it doesn't indicate on the sound fitted version what they have used, the non sound versions remain 6 pin and I don't know if the non sound versions are speaker fitted - they were Farish's first sound output it may be only the sound versions have the speaker. Does anyone know what they have done in the sound versions of the 108?
  4. woodenhead
    The latest 40s are all Next 18 & speaker fitted like the 31, with 371-184 all I need to do is buy 40012 and stick in a suitable sound decoder.
  5. woodenhead
    It does look interesting and I think the lack of wiring is the biggest element - less risk to people, less expense to set up and maintain, less impact of storms and no unsightly structures.
  6. woodenhead

    Some weeks are hard and some weeks are just amazing, this week has been the latter.

     

    Not only have I overcome my fear of tech with trains - JMRI installation with Sprog working but I've completed a piece of code development that wasn't even on the radar a week ago and today began processing files for the first few of 50,000 free school meal vouchers that need to go out in the next week or so to parents.

     

    Twelve months ago I was in the early days of an apprenticeship where I was feeling quite negative, but now realise just how valuable my learning from it has been, from requirements gathering, flowcharts, Entity tables to Test Driven Development - all new buzzwords that I now use when planning a piece of work before I even begin typing the code.  Who says an old dog can't learn new tricks.

     

    1. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Great news and a good cause too.

    2. Platform 1

      Platform 1

      Excellent - well done!  I knew you could if you hung in there...

       

  7. woodenhead
    It also means a train can be parked in the station (how else do you describe it to a 5 year old) whilst the other train on that circuit does loops. Kids are probably not bothered about a couple of through lines Doncaster style - they want to imagine people getting on and off the train.
  8. woodenhead
    and real decorative wood on the back half
  9. woodenhead
    https://www.coventry.gov.uk/verylightrail There are also proposals for road trams elsewhere which do away with the track as well.
  10. woodenhead
    A class 44 with discs to fit. A sealed beam class 45 & 46 Looking forward to it
  11. woodenhead
    Not yet - Probably pick up 40012 when it comes out and get a youchoos or biffo decoder for it, then early 2021 there will be the class 31 of course. Looking inside my class 24/25 there isn't much space and I am not about to start hacking at metal so they will remain silent. This is not just about a project with sound I wanted to overcome my fear do doing something and to make wiring a terminus and stabling area less about isolators and switches. The locos sound a little noisier than on DC - I am guessing that is a CV thing, which is a future thing to learn about and then resolve - need a layout first not a 40cm test track.
  12. woodenhead
    All in all not a bad evening: Two locos set up on Sprog Ipad throttle working Android throttle working One Bachmann and one Rails chip tested Learnt how to alter addresses and run locos on a very short piece of track. Need to learn about controlling more than one loco at a time on a single throttle (but thats for another day and a bigger run) Tomorrow it's the cobalt's turn for a test connection, then it is building the layout. If only I had a sound fitted N loco.........
  13. woodenhead
    Well that was easy - installed the free version of withrottle - one click on JMRI later and I am controlling 24077 via an ipad. So I may be investing in the paid version, unless someone has something else to recommend. EngineDriver is Android, only my work phone is Android unless I use my older work phone, hmmm.
  14. woodenhead
    It lives - not helped that I had selected the wrong Sprog settings first on JMRI and then having put the Bachmann Chip in the wrong way round - what happened to the white spots they used to use? Anyway, class 24077 moved at the behest of my mouse on my laptop. Now can I get a throttle working on my ipad!!
  15. woodenhead
    I am still hoping that there is a tooling for the King which we are not yet aware of and will turn up with EFE in the Spring. Of course it is highly unlikely but one can hope.
  16. woodenhead
    Two six pin decoders and a Cobalt IS Digital received - I wonder what I will be testing this evening. All being well I can forge on with my new layout this weekend and order some more kit.
  17. woodenhead
    Wonder if it is the North Pole shifting
  18. woodenhead
    It's a flood warning sign - "If you can't see the Monolith then we have a flood"
  19. woodenhead
    That sounds good on YouTube, quite bassy, I think we can safely assume it sounds even better in real life.
  20. woodenhead
    I think sometimes the pooling of classes demonstrated the difficultly in producing enough solid content for a single class per issue - but when it came to things like DMU or EMU families it meant some got very little attention. It was mentioned earlier in the thread about coaching stock and freight stock - that surely is an obvious target for a part work series - Looking at Paul Barlett's Flickr site or Clive Mortimore's cut and shuts shows the variations in rolling stock - I for one did not know about the Mark 1 mini buffets converted from old Mk1 BSOs till seeing one in Clive's thread.
  21. woodenhead
    Wait till they try and get a tamper in.
  22. woodenhead
    The 40s, 31s now come Next18 and speaker fitted so I can pick up a loco and insert chip of choice. Same for the 8f, not sure with the class 108 as that came before the 40.
  23. woodenhead
    I'm glad he's handing it over to someone who does research. I was most disappointed with his appearance on the Engine Shed when talking about the short Bulleids - he was selling them as suitable for 1930s traffic - the frames were Maunsell, built in 1940, with the bodies ordered by Bulleid in 1944. I'm not usually so pedantic but it opened my eyes that Mr Kohler works in Marketing/Development and he's good at that but doesn't do the research as it's not his area.
  24. woodenhead
    And sound in N is coming on with Graham Farish now installing speakers. It has attracted me over to the darkside and I am currently awaiting my first chips to install as a test for JMRI control. Next up will be a class 40 and a youchoos or legmanbiffo sound decoder. No space inside most of my stock though so it will be a slow changeover for sound.
  25. woodenhead
    How cool is this
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