stucashmore

Thanks again both!

Many thanks Jim! I intend to model mid-1930s GWR so it seems the LMS wagons a well-intentioned other half bought for me will be perfectly ok.

Many thanks Nearholmer, that's really helpful. If I understand the last part of your answer correctly, whilst it's perfectly "correct" to see another company's wagons it should be comparatively rare.

I'm interested to know to what degree the Big Four companies moved goods wagons belonging to other companies. For example, how often would you see, say, a LMS goods van as part of the stock being hauled by a GWR loco. If goods had originated in an area served only by one company would they be unloaded and loaded into another company's wagon at a "boundary" station or would the wagon simply be shunted into the other company's train?

I pride myself at being fairly competent at formulating complex Google searches but this has defeated me!

Thanks for any help you can give.

On 15/11/2021 at 15:47, Geep7 said:

The safer, but probably not quicker & easier way, is to take the body off and have a look. I've done this on all loco's i've bought secondhand, even if getting the bodies off is a bit of a faff, as I don't want to tempt fate and allow the dreaded puff of smoke to be emitted from the motor. The programming track option would at least be safer than allowing full DCC voltage (and amps) through a non-decoder fitted motor though.

Yes.... I work in N gauge and after a bad experience taking the body off a loco I'm reluctant to do it except in case of dire necessity!

Apologies to all who posted after my initial response. Your replies are greatly appreciated too, unfortunately I've been very ill and hadn't looked on here for a while hence the late reply.

Thanks Iain! Greatly appreciate your help. I'm off to try it now.

Thanks for such a speedy response! Please forgive me asking, is this safe? I understood you shouldn't put a non-DCC loco onto DCC track as they would be damaged. However I would be the first to admit that DCC is still very new to me.

I'm hoping somebody can help with a very simple question.

I've got two identical N-gauge locos. They're a few years old so they don't have a socket for a DCC chip. I paid to have one of them chipped and knew which one it was. Unfortunately my wife "helpfully" tidied them up and now I don't which is which. Is there any way to determine has been chipped and which hasn't? I know I could disassemble the loco but I would really prefer not to. Any suggestions?

Thanks!