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Really nice idea. I may look to see if I can put a real camera in the camera window at the top.

5 minutes with a track cutter, (in orange) turned the blue speaker on the left into the speaker bits on the right. I started at the bottom (blue cutaway part in the bottom left corner and chewed a hole in the casing... i kept the top corner (thats the microphone) as you can see from my Hornby footplate crew, its a miniscule thing.

I did exactly the same, I bought the £800 OO set, recorded all the sounds off of it, about 25-30 mins of recording time. Then sold the chips for £200, the DCC controller for £150 odd, brought the cost to an affordable level. sound goes out via Bluetooth on DC. At somepoint I will look at some sync software to play the sound files “on button click” and loops, then I do have the full DCC experience nailed onto DC... I wrote software to do exactly that 20 years ago in another industry, so its not beyond my skillset to do it on a mobile device.. but then i’m moving away from being a hobbyist, to becoming a commercial lobbyist, but my current day job definitely pays more so not yet.

i am indeed, I just dropped it into a mk1 BG the other night, to run with my Duchess. For a DC only user, I have just 3 cheap 1inch cube speakers, (two of which Ive cut out of their fitting to make even smaller, hidden in a brake van or a coach behind the loco, and for less than £15 all in, I have whatever sounds I want (i refuse to play kylie doing the locomotion but music has been played too). Very theraputic, no messing with DCC, no £100 chips. It does trade off in sound files not having continuity... I use any that work from Youtube, platform announcements, crossing lights etc too its all out there to mine & harvest... the best recordings are those taken “on the move” from carriage windows.. usually they last several minutes, are consistent and sound levels dont vary. The whole video below is made from my own recordings (ive made over 1500 -2000 over the years), but when playing on my own sessions I use any from any source.. argo recordings from the 1960’s are often fun... all I need is a phone/ipad and the speaker hidden in a vehicle, playing via bluetooth. I have hundreds of locos, I couldnt afford to go 100% DCC sound, and I don't have any DCC faff, plus finding recordings is half the fun of it... my favourite was 48624 at Cauldon Lowe in 2010.. 12 coaches on a 1 in 40 gradient, recorded from the front coach, whilst I was being covered in flames (not ash but burning chunks of coal out of the chimney, never heard an 8f work that hard ever... 9m10 in the video below, played through a speaker in the brakevan*.... At 3m55, tell me whats wrong with timing that departUre from Summerseat with D213 in a sound recording to my start of running the train ? ... £5 on DC, no F numbers and CVs, its easy to forget that much of this site is extremist accurate modelling mixed with commercial operatives encouraging their products.... as you can see I openly “play trains”, with a family and day job, scenery can wait a few decades until I retire...sadly those of us who just want to have fun often get drowned out.. * one funny moment, my mini speaker actually has a microphone in it, I was playing sound running a train when the phone rang, I left the train running and my caller actually thought I was on a train at the time.

Same thing but in a different branding available on Amazon... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Märklin-Trix-66602-H0-Cleaning-Brush/dp/B0000WRG64/ref=pd_lpo_21_t_0/258-8296162-8338023?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B0000WRG64&pd_rd_r=c36da327-637c-4d21-8eb7-0f38fb3254e9&pd_rd_w=aT6hf&pd_rd_wg=S0Jgh&pf_rd_p=7b8e3b03-1439-4489-abd4-4a138cf4eca6&pf_rd_r=7GTP1N10WG8SFYWCSNYC&psc=1&refRID=7GTP1N10WG8SFYWCSNYC

The tank tops don't aline in your image.. compare one side to the other. The top blue Horizontal line. Neither do the vertical sides of the tanks... we dont know the depth / quality of lens used, especially at close range. inconclusive.

no it didn’t, the Lima class 20 is much older the Bachmanns “Fly Wheel” Fitted class 46, I believe it is circa 1983 ?, the class 46 was 1990’s. Limas class 67 has a central mount motor also. (The class 40 was designed for it, as was the class 59 given thoughts to it, but in both cases price was considered too high). The central can motor and shaft has been around for decades, its just the UK market wouldn’t pay for it... Europe and US has had it consistently for 5 decades, even some steam locos use it !

forgive me copying a close up of the original buyers image... The redlines are horizontal lines drawn across the base lines of the chimney Cap, smokebox numberplate and side tanks. I then adjusted the whole image 5 degrees, and drew the yellow lines. you’ll notice all redlines are now at the same 5 degree angle, all yellow lines align to a nice symmetry of the tanks, chimney and smokebox numberplate. my opinion, the camera was 5 degrees off horizontal, (Actually 4.something that I couldn’t be bothered to get that accurate), that or is the whole loco is off at an angle ?

I’d like a Scotrail Saltaire class 170, but have the same reservations, i’m seeing them £275+.. yet Bachmann is retooling it.. and if people are paying that for the old one, surely that makes it a target for the new one, eventually...

I’ve yet to see Inside body side strengtheners on Heljans Class 45.. very distinctive feature of the real thing, and the reason why they have that Lower body side trapezoid shaped grill. Mainline, Replica and all Bachmann releases have this right. if you don’t know what I mean, it’s those angular bars inside those grills on Bachmanns model above, I hope this is fixed, as without them, Heljans effort IMHO will all be for nought. I've yet to bet on a horse in this race, I’m surprised Bachmann has stalled them, given we’re starved of class 45’s for so long imho first past the post could win this race... it’s not as if there’s that many class 45 liveries, and after a couple people most will be job done.

narrow planet will make you a nameplate with anything you like on it... Monday Sarah Tuesday Jane Dirty Gertie etc.. https://shop.narrowplanet.co.uk/collections/custom-etched-products

Thats nothing, ebay history shows 58x Hornby Rocket (R3809) sold so far.. cheapest was £50 above rrp, up to £200 (double) rrp, it only came out in January. £170 is less than rrp ?

I try to run my Hornby mk1’s away from my Bachmann mk1’s. I find the shape a bit different, however I do run Replica Railways RB with The Bachmann ones, with a change of coupling and flush glazing the profile fits nicer.

61994 in its LNER guise, passing Bolton in Late 1989, carrying a wreath, for a reason and its not Mr Cameron. lets keep history accurate please, Mr Cameron did not save 3442 from razor blades, and It was widely reported at the time a promise was made to the late Viscount Garnock about the working future of this locomotive.

+2 weathering turns me straight off.

In the good old days of stackem high, sell em cheap that worked. in these lesser produced / higher price / long lead times I’m not sure that’s conducive to maximising the ROI from the tooling, especially when it’s a retool.

I’d take the chance at upgrade if those buffers, Peters Spares has Hornby Class 31 buffers.. much nicer. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-X9313-Class-31-Set-Of-4-Sprung-Oval-Buffers/324007447020?hash=item4b705949ec:g:OAAAAOSwxR1d7neq

Mentioned before, i’m surprised they are still here... Dapol Black label A4 in OO (factory seconds). https://www.dccsupplies.com/item-p-114748/bl-001-002-a4-quicksilver-2510-lner-silver.htm https://www.dccsupplies.com/item-p-114749/bl-001-005-a4-silver-fox-2512-lner-silver.htm https://www.dccsupplies.com/item-p-114747/bl-001-006-a4-wild-swan-4467-lner-garter-blue.htm I took the plunge and ordered Silver Fox... diecast metal A4, with DCC sound and two speakers. it has no lights/smoke or the manual, but it does come with sound, extra fittings, tyred wheel, fixed catazzi and the Cab rain sheet. under the hood fitting a £20 Seuthe could get me back to smoke, and <£5 can get me a whistle. £160 is quite a saving on £399.

What diameter ?

Another aspect to be cautious of in an auction is condition... if they sold as seen, or sold untested. I once bought several locos via an online auction house, which after fees was around £700, when I netted it out, I could have saved £100 just buying via ebay. The kicker was though, that when I tested them, none worked... because they all had their motors & gears removed.. they looked great though online, cost me another £100, and several months before I got them fully usable (I dismantled one). Whats worse was the clue was right there, the auction listed a box lot of spare motors and other bits, which went for just a few quid... I guess a lot of people got stung that day. After that ive never done an online auction house since, forget that.

Is this the one ? If so pm me your address and its yours.

dont you mean 59 years ago... this loco has a can motor with a drive shaft to metal gears... indestructible... rtr UK in 1961...so good it took 58 years for a rtr replacement to oust it http://www.british-ho.com/showcase/traction-diesel/playcraft_d6100_1.htm more pics here https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/playcraft-d6100-diesel-electric-53330067

Railwayana industry never ceases to amaze. it was built out of a large % of nicked stuff, that has never been investigated and rightly should be owned by the state, tax payers, unless proven legitimately acquired. It has Provided a legitimised money laundry service to dispose of them at substantially high value over the years (Has inland revenue ever looked at railwayana capital gains ?). It Is prolific with fakes of many aspects. But post steam era and in more recent memory has become a more legitimate source for modern railway items sold by TOCs but ultimately lower value than the older stuff of more questionable origin, which in normal economics would be inverse.

I bought an EMT HST like that, removed the shaft, clean the bearings, bit of oil and good as new once more.

Late, canceled, knackered and that was just the Tomato butties. I believe there was a joke, that after trains passed, the sandwich team would harvest (recycle) freshly grown tomatoes from the trackside...