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I guess companies like Hattons and Rails would not share such sensitive information as it creates expectation. For DJM it was a game to keep people onside.

All this talk of liveries and numerals makes me think BR knew what they were doing with corporate blue: Is it a loco? - paint it blue and give it a yellow front Is it a unit? Is it on the Southern? or an Inter City unit paint it blue/grey and give it a yellow front Is it elsewhere? paint it blue and give it a yellow front Is it a coach? - paint it blue/grey with blue ends Is it an NPCCS? - paint it blue all over Is it a loco/unit/coach/NPCCS - don't fully clean it until it's next visit to works With regards the 66, Pinzaboy showed how subjective the thickness of numerals are with his pic of 66005 - his opinion was they were not all the same, it wasn't based on any fact just how it looks to him, which is what we all do don't we. Hal Nail nails it - it's all subjective just like the livery colours, we all see things differently and even if all the color codes match and someone measures the numerals with a ruler and checks the changes of colour are in the right spot at the correct angle, someone is going to look and go 'that doesn't look right to them'.

Strange light in the sky at Dawlish today, no pesky waves to stop the 800s

So when a preserved line is running a gala with guest locos you can get an idea how much delivering said locos may have cost before even turning a wheel.

I did wonder about coasting along the coast.

Even the sea wants rid of Pacers They could wire it but turn the electricity off in storms, the stuff they have put up elsewhere on the GWML is pretty tough. It would mean always having bi-modes available on the route but it would better on the environment, I expect the residents of Dawlish may not approve of the revised view.

There is the train station - but all you'll get is a procession of Green things with the odd splash of purple. I've heard there is a little model shop there, but it's not often open being such a small shop in a small village there probably isn't much call for visitors but you never know. If only they had the internet in Cornwall.

There is the train station - but all you'll get is a procession of Green things with the odd splash of purple. I've heard there is a little model shop there, but it's not often open being such a small shop in a small village there probably isn't much call for visitors but you never know. If only they had the internet in Cornwall.

Hopefully it's not the same residents, otherwise your town has a secret.

Lets get this into perspective Age of universe (estimated) 13.8 billion years Age of Earth 4.5 billion years Age of Man on Earth 200,000 years Average life expectancy in UK (2016) 81 years Development time so far of Road Van 6 years Is it so important that something that has been in progress for about 10-20 percent of your life is that critical, if it was then do a kit. A home, food and health are the important things in life, a hobby should be a pleasure not a stress and given all the wagons that are available as kits or RTR, including Southern brake vans in various shades of chocolate, then there are alternatives. Note: I am saying this as much to myself here as I get stressed about wiring up and scenics when I know I shouldn't

All quiet today, though I am rescuing a situation at work as well as beginning to resolve a second. Yesterday was a bit of an odd one - on the one hand work was great as I reached a satisfactory point in some code development but in the middle of the day it all went a bit pear shaped. ****toilet / bowel movement comments coming **** Had a off stomach yesterday, had to make visit to the loo - enough said. Why did the en-suite toilet though have to pick this moment to let go of the pan collector and just I am doing a double flush. Didn't know about it until I went downstairs to put the heating on and could hear a loud dripping sound in the bathroom - peered in to see a line of drips coming through the ceiling and through the ceiling fan. Rushed upstairs with paper towels and got to mopping up what has come out of the back of the loo in a most inaccessible part of the house. Mostly clean water it appears though there was some 'other' stuff and I am hoping that what came out of the boxed area was wet plaster remains and not some more of the 'other' stuff, no smell to it so I am hoping it is just plaster. Sprayed carpet and surrounding area with anti-bacterial deodorant spray and awaiting the inevitable drying out period where it really hums. This is the third time it has done this, I think the plumber didn't fit the toilet close enough to the soil pipe so eventually with the help of lots of flushes over time it lets go. Three options 1: Bit of wood behind the pipe to take the pressure off it wanting to return to it's natural resting angle 2: bind the seal to the toilet with a metal band 3: take out the toilet and fit a better fitting pan collector. Option three I don't really fancy, done it in the past but that was just an out/back in on a straight pipe, this time it would be replace some of the pipe as well - yuck. Option two will be difficult as I don't think I can get a screwdriver in to tighten the band. So I'd better get looking for a piece of wood in the garage, I would have done this after the second time it let go but the garage is full of rubbish and the wood is at the back.

LE or Light Engine

I think the obvious answer is to purchase one of the little Smallbrook ones http://smallbrookstudio.co.uk/kits-parts/4569521214/lswr-20-ton-goods-brake-van-(road-van)-s.r.-dias.-1545-1549/3738664 Guaranteed as soon as you are ready to put on the final coat of paint a pre-production Kernow will appear as if by magic.

Be glad you're not up in the Shetlands Amazingly the sky isn't covered so the cam is actually picking out stars but the wind is howling This is the only one of the cameras with sound tonight https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/cliff-cam-3/

There is also MERG if you really want to get your hands into the electronics, but I am trying to avoid that at the moment, that seems like out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I'm not saying they do, but they might hold a patent on the process if it hasn't been done before, it would certainly make business sense to do so, What would you do if you were doing something no-one else is, hasn't been done before and will give a competitive edge?

Sometimes I really wonder about myself and technology. I am currently writing some c# and I was not getting a positive expected result from some code. Have been looking at it for ages, also been on Stack overflow and then I decide to take a step back and look at actually what the code is returning - get one line instead of 10 then before realising it's because I had a filter on the preceding SQL which restricted it to 1 row and not the row I wanted even. And I think I will handle DCC hahahaha

Because at the moment I would think because 'Rails' own it, it's their innovation, not sure if Dapol are involved in production or just the paint and lettering finishing. Rails have devised a new way of doing things, rather like Sony and Blu-ray (another thread!!), whether Rails share that knowledge will be down to them. I guess Kernow could go down the same route, but they will need to find someone with the necessary equipment and plus the investment.

At the moment N I've got a room so I can do a big loop - I want something where the train is doing more than just entering and leaving a station, I also would prefer not to waste space with a fiddleyard this time so I've got some 1200*600 boards coming from Grainge and Hodder - these were going to be the whole layout then I looked around my room after a tidy and thought, I could do a nice narrow layout around this without impacting it being my office as well. So now the two 1200 baseboards will house the two termini and a passing loop (i.e. all the complicated bits) and the rest of the room will represent the space in between. Going to have to be clever probably fitting it all in the baseboard space but it feels more like the trains are doing something this way, I am inspired by Morfa - Hwyl fawr, so a nice single track line - preserved railway in this case so I can run what I like. M

But Kernow took some pre-payments on these models to lock in a price otherwise those who just pre-ordered would take the risk of a price rise. If I'd paid for a wagon I'd like to know when to expect it, it does put a different slant when funds have been taken. Although perhaps the numbers taking up this option have been low if the wagon still hasn't seen any visible development since. http://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/pg-148-LSWR-Road-Van

Haha It was only as I began reading this thread that it struck me that I might be able to opt for DCC this time - I have a lot of N gauge stock, there are some locos in the stud that are not DCC ready - they can be chipped but only through hard wiring, but I have more than enough to run the railway I want without an issue. In the past it was the simple number of locos I have which caused me to balk at DCC, should have tried when I went onto OO again, but I again balked as the model was too simple to justify DCC on a primarily one engine in steam layout. I would like a railway with about 8 engines and this feels manageable in terms of purchasing chips, then the accessory items for the points and the NCE Cab for control. Here's how my stress level sees this: Loco control - I don't have to wire up isolation sections Point control - I don't have to have long runs of three wires other than between the accessories and the point motor but they can be located nearby Switches and buttons - Apart from some sections to manage the overall bus I don't need any more. What will stress me how thick should my wires be the cost how thick should my wires be OMG the cost. How do I get this chip into the loco I need to overcome my fear, that is the basic issue here and get on with it otherwise no more railways DC or DCC. One question, I note some Zimo chips come with a stay alive - do they take up much more room that a Zimo without stay alive?

Online hackers are not looking for physical possessions unless they are Krugerands or other such precious objects. People have computing and home entertainment systems worth as much or more than our toy train collections. I don't believe there are people trading the details of contents of people's homes online. Your personal details are more valuable as you can be copied and spoofed, hackers don't want to break into your home.

Reading the Powercab guide: It has an Accessory button Looks like straight forward selection 16 macros that can set 8 points each for route setting - that sounds more than enough for my needs. Wow, I might actually be doing this. Edit: only because I get stuck on wiring DC and chicken out and I can't build a decent schematic with switches and buttons to save my life.

I was imagining NCE Powercab as a starter. The layout will be a preserved line single line loop with two terminus stations to allow end to end running - one will be a derivative of Minehead and the other Oxenhope. So there won't be a lot of points to manage, certainly not with moving trains but I see your point (no pun intended) about getting from one mode to the other.

For me the stress is all the wiring of the points and I won't be running more than two locos at a time.