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LSWR Salmon-pink?

I love old-school scenery, I'm going to use paper strips over wire mesh on the landscape on my layout, but I'm still undecided whether to be totally old-school and use Solvite wallpaper paste or go with that new-fangled white stuff.

Funny you should say that, I've been looking at drying out the left-over coffee grounds in the filter and using them as mid to dark brown ballast, once I've established that they won't swell of otherwise degrade when treated with PVA.

I had a similar experience myself a few years back when my prized Axminster X-Y table got deluged after a ceiling leak. I sprayed it with WD40 first (People forget WD40 is not primarily a lubricant but first a foremost a Water-Dispersal compound) but the damage was done. I used Jenolite and Kurust alternately, the Jenolite seemed to neutralise the rust and the Kurust did some filling-in of the porous holes left from the rust but it wasn't a perfect treatment as the Kurust is also quite soft, like the b lack deposits of base iron in the electrolyic process.

Electolytic rust removal is about as close as you can get, iron deposits where the oxygen bubbles off show as black marks, but there's obviously no real improvement to the surface strength as the iron is rather soft at those points.

To try and clear up the confusion, although I suspect it's just going to increase it, I wasn't counting the wheels on the tender, I was simply differentiating tank engines from tender engines as a class. The OP had asked about the possibility of a 2-8-0 tender engine being used in industry, and while I knew of plenty of 0-6-0s and one 2-6-0 I mentioned, there were no larger, no 0-8-0 Austin Sevens or 2-8-0 RoD sell-offs, none of the American imports after WW2. Its not surprising given the tightness of many industrial yards, I suppose.

What lovely hand-tinted postcards. I wish there was a way to alter the rendering in Trainz or SecondLife so it all looks like that.

To the best of my knowledge the largest (in terms of numbers of wheels) tender locomotive that went from a main line to industry was the 2-6-0 MSWJR sister to "Galloping Alice".

In case it helps, although LEDs must be run from a DC supply, grain of wheat and other filament type bulbs will run on AC.

I the past where I've not been able to actually make things, mend things, or operate the layout I've found the train and model railway simulators a good alternative.

I had a stab at this in 15 years ago in MSTS and then in the Kuju successor Railworks. The successor failed abysmally because if you tried to make a wagon or van go down the 1-in-4 incline it failed to adopt the correct gradient, and also because to properly work Watchett harbour andRoadwater you need a shunting horse. MSTS did actually offer some of these, plus Wayne Campbell's (of ORTS fame) excellent method of doing a funicular, but was getting quite dated in appearance by then (16-bit colour for the rendering meant loads of moire when you tried to do fine detail, and hopeless terrain texturing). A plus for TRS2004/6/TC is actually how nice the lines can still look. The biggest problem with those MSTS/Railworks, as with Trainz, is the trouble you encounter trying to do very narrow trackbeds, especially when they are in close proximity to streams, almost sheer-sided banks, and other features, the 10-metre resolution means you get cuttings and embankments that are far too wide. even Trainz still suffered from this, I couldn't find way to reduce their width.

Supposedly some of the atmospheric lines in the south of London were robbed by enterprising villains who jemmied the sealing flaps off the pipe apart to rob the train of it's source of motive power. ( I can't for the life of me remember the source off this and it's just possible I'm confusing actual history with something like the adventures of Charles Pearce in "Buster").

If you hunt round on the web you can still find places to download Sketchup15, which does add some extra functionality not present in 8. I've got 8, 14 and 15 running on a 32-bit XP machine quite happily. Some of the more useful plugins might not work in 8, although you won't be needing the stl and dxf export ones, unless you decide to 3D-print some of your creations. You can also load in a surprising amount of models to Sketchup if you can get them in DAE or 3DS format.

Just a thought, but using the controller to supply what are in effect resistive loads might be part of the problem? Motors are closer to reactive/inductive than resistive load.

Not just Ireland, Northumberland and the border counties were famous for it. Supposedly the term "Hot Pursuit" originates from the practice of carrying a piece of smouldering turf from the hearth with the band of outraged farmers seeking to get their property back.

I suspect it was using plastic rather than die-cast metal, tooling was cheaper which allowed a greater variety of models and a shorter lead time to expanding the range.

If they are grain of wheat bulbs in the lamp posts they will be getting a bit greedy. There is a quick and dirty method of limiting the maximum current drawn from the controller, and that is by putting a small bulb in series between the controller +ve wire and load. Let's say you want to limit the total current drawn from the controller to 1/2 amp. At 12 volts, 1/2 Amp means 6Watts of power, so put a 12V 6W bulb in series and that will then limit the current to the remainder of the lights and Leds to 1/2 Amp. It will obviously cause some reduction in the light being emitted, but the Leds are less likely to be as affected as the grain of wheat bulbs.

I share your sentiments, and I too am re-learning Sketchup both for the 3D-printing and laser-cutting model work and also for SecondLife and Opensim. Those last two might well explain why you and I and some others loathe and detest Blender/3D-crafter/Gmax. I think it's to do with the viewport. Building in Sketchup is very similar to SecondLife, you have a wide open space, the view stretches away and nothing occludes it. The feeling is one of being as free as a bird. In Blender et al you are looking into viewports, it's as if you are making a model inside a cardboard box peering into a tiny window to try and see what's going on. It reminds me of keyhole surgery, or of the scene in The Diamond Age when Hackworth watches Demetrius Cotton painstakingly assembling nano-technology with manipulator gloves. Are you using TMix for the export from Sketchup to Trainz?

They're typically £9.99 in Lidls. From what you said about the soldering changing the drivers that actually picked up, I'd guess that you've got too much pressure on one half of the wipers, but I can sense your reluctance to unsolder them and start again.

Have you tried with your trusty multimeter to look for continuity between the rim of the pickup wheel and the pickup wiper, then the opposite rim and the chassis? The pickup wire to wheel rim is easy to check visually, although any slop in the wheel or rigidity in the pickup wiper might not be visible, or a slightly wobbly wheel could give intermittent contact, but on the other side of the chassis, the point where the axle makes electrical contact with the chassis block is completely shrouded by the wheel itself. Real stab in the dark, but supposing somebody had fitted two insulated wheels to that axle, one each side, you would have pickup through the wiper from one wheel but absolutely nothing through the other.

The flaw was actually one of maintenance: with transverse sleepers you could pack up one or two individual sleepers, and the pair of rails rode on all the sleepers which themselves floated to an extent on the ballast. The baulk road had vertical piles driven down into the ground onto which the longitudinals were rigidly attached, and the bridge rails sat on these, with transverse pieces solely to maintain the gauge. The problem then was that the baulks couldn't settle properly because off the vertical piles beneath them, and thus couldn't float. There was no damping effect that the transverse sleepered-system gave, so oscillations in the baulk-road carriages became quite exaggerated at certain speeds. Brunel was trying everything he could such as varying the carriage springs, and even trying rubber, to find a solution before realising the problem was one of permanent-way inflexibility. As you say, Brunel was effectively starting from scratch and it was all in his imagination, whereas Stephenson was refining already well-established plateway and tramway practices, he didn't need to work it all out in his head. I saw a similar instance in 1985 with the Sinclair C5s around London: a brilliant concept that foundered on some practicalities. I'm still not sure from my reading who was playing who, was Brunel challenging Sanders by saying "If you think you can get somebody to do it better then go ahead", or was Sanders flattering Brunel by not accepting any resignation offers and encouraging him to find a solution?

Will the loft floor take the extra weight?

Somewhere in the multitude of worlds that exist due to the forking quantum events (excuse me, madam), there may well be such a world where a damsel in distress could hide safely in between the rails, entertainment is provided via betamax, and 00 gauge is 28mm (28.0833-recurring if you're a P4 modeller.) But I think you're ascribing far too much credit to the lesser men. Somewhere in my house (a location for every book of mine I own and need to reference) I have the early GWR history which is the recollections of Charles Sanders. Twice or thrice a month he would meet with Brunel to discuss the latest incidents, and Brunel would invariably offer his resignation as a way out of the difficulties, though it was never accepted. Much of the hard work in bringing down the Broad Gauge was set in motion by Brunel and Co at the very outset (If for example there hadn't been the atmospheric fiasco, or the original baulk road not such a damagingly hard ride more time could have been spent on the myriad other problems that the lesser men were able to seize upon to make their dubious case.) But don't feel too bad about it, the Western Region had their revenge on the lesser men when they finally got to grips with the MSWJR, the SDJR, and the DNSR.

I think these are the snifting valves?

If I remember it right, in "The Man who fell to earth", the alien's family were shown waiting for him in vain at some sort of monorail station?