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Hi Peter Yes your right, should have read your post properly ! Anyway re a Lima 40 body, it fits a Bach chassis that well, getting it back off again can pose a problem, although very slight trimming of the chassis ends would ease that, IF felt necessary. Your Bungee cord tip will prove most useful. Regards Ken

Hi Dave Bif's - legomanbiffo (Blue) sound fitted 128 sounded very good indeed at Glasgow - loads of nice noises from it ! definitely worth a listen, especially if Howes O/S HTH Ken

Hi Peter Quality work as usual Peter - Re fitting a Hornby/Lima 40 body on a Bach chassis, it fits that snugly, there's no need for any form of fixing etc. at least with the original Bach 40 chassis, not tried it yet with the latest one. Regards Ken

Daddyman A couple of perhaps silly questions: Why use the Shawplan headcode plates back to front ? - and not as intended with the supplied small cowling rings added ? Was the original Bachmann headcode plate + rings removed/flushed before adding the (thinned down) Shawplan etched plates ? Your rubber grommet mod is now on my to do trial list

Ah OK so you ran it on DC with the chip fitted. I always run a new loco in on DC with the chip removed and the blanking (DC) plug fitted - sound or otherwise. Only once I'm happy with it's DC running etc, will I fit a decoder of any type. No decoder will help a poor running loco on DC, run any better on DCC - sort the basics first - then any decoder chosen will have the best chance of working as intended.

Very strange it ran ok on DCC but not on DC to start with ? As for the paper on the track test etc - the centre axles don't pick-up (as supplied) only the outer 2 on each bogie.

Suggest you read through some of the earlier posts - there's is an official response from Bachmann regarding the 40 pick-up issues and their suggestions for sorting it etc - earlier in this thread HTH tractor

I doubt it will sound as good as this ? , but the SWD 40 has cold start options - (their multi start 37 is pretty good), apart from the idling transition from cold to normal. Biff's 40 will also have cold start options available.

As Lee's (blueeighties) above sound clip confirms, once the pick up problem is sorted, even fitted with sound it runs perfectly, although it's possible being a Zimo it may ? have the optional capacitor added. I'm sure Lee has now fixed many 40's with lots more to do. I have two examples, one is fitted with Howes sound, the other is on the WB to be worked on, both have added pick ups (12) and both now run perfectly. It would be very interesting to hear if anyone has added extra pick-ups and still not got the model to run correctly ? as many are now happy with theirs once the pick-ups have been added. It's worth bearing in mind, that the new pick ups will bypass the grease issue, regardless of how much there is or not, conductive or otherwise !! Some have also advised, even after getting their model back from Bachmann with the "excess grease removed" etc, they are still finding running problems. So gentlemen it's not all doom and gloom, there is light at the end of this 40 tunnel !

What size of plastic tube - ie outside dia have you used for the markers ? Your nose ends/grommets are looking the business painted etc - all very nice

Very nicely finished overall for N gauge, however the widths of the red/white stripes are questionable, the red stripe should be wider/deeper than the white stripe, the opposite to what's on the coach.

As the latest 40 body has separate nose ends, as per 37's, they just need centre box nose ends with headlights. Hopefully at some point they will also do the rebuilt "square" cornered, centre box noses as per Haymarket's . 40 063/6 etc

The CFPS Bachmann Limited Edition BR Blue 40 145 had headlights, so it's likely the L/L version will also.

The description of this set on KMRC states that these coaches were used on the WHL when in fact they were mainly used on the Inverness-Kyle line, another very scenic route. Harburn Hobbies have previously produced similar Bachmann MK2 Tourist Green/Cream "Clan" packs of these coaches, with four different names, thankfully the coaches in this new train set will have different names/no's. We shall have to wait and see just how well they match up ? The LNER Green/Cream MK1 coaches as were used on the West Highland Line have also been previously produced in 2 differently branded packs of 4 - possibly, jointly ? between Model Rail Magazine and Harburn Hobbies

Bob See my previous posts in this thread : 380 / 389 / 409 all the info required to sort it out (permanently) HTH Ken

Although AFAIK not yet advised, I assume going by the RRP of this set @ £294.95 the loco will come fitted with Bachmann's new "budget" sound, and not a Loksound 4 ?

On the the model as supplied, there are NO actual pickups that touch any wheels, the revised pick-up system used, passes current from the live axles to the wheels via the brass bearing bushes/bogie mounted pick up bar etc, lots of non- conductive grease everywhere not helping !

Yes they will be TSO Clan Macleod BSO Bailechaul Loco HR L/L Blue 37 418 "An Comunn Gaidhealach" sound fitted

quote: The little copper wire is a mod that only 37/4s seem to have had - to what end I know not. All my photos of it up close and personal at ground level at Corrour seem to have disappeared so I've had to guess from photos. It's possible that this was some sort of "visual" gauge of the tank content level - then again that may well be nonsense

On first look - I wrongly thought this was the original model compared the the new one - doh ! Andrew Re the point derailing - check the bogies can move freely both sideways and fore and aft, loosen off the bogie mounting screws a touch if necessary. If still a problem, also check the wheel back to backs. Fitting extra pickups is straight forward - remove the bogie, then remove the bogie frame, add the new pick-ups preferably with the wheels left in place, makes it easier to align them. NB: If you do remove the wheels/axles, the centre axle must go back in the centre, it's brass bearing bushes are different to those on the outer axles, which have grooves for the pick-up bar to locate in. HTH Ken

I'm pretty sure, they would sell in "bucket-loads"

Anyone attempted to move the central lamp iron down to the lower central position as on some members of the class ? http://www.flickr.com/photos/72996689@N02/11100461303/in/photolist-hUULpR-bp9SiV-bpeFnZ-dFYHzg-dTvAsE-cA7ved-eQfEQh-8iFxR7-83izZV-hJPZJY-cnf3iQ-cnf2Zu-jhspu7-8bf975-aBzkdR-dTvz9q-bzURcg-9LFiD4-bpeFnB-eDSLcQ-eDM7d2-afZnQ5-b3eZ2H-g3njHF-dPry38-ehLU1g-b8pBv4-ciaR7C-eSJbJk-bXjxZ8-eQLH6H-fgqZFX-ffkPvr-e1RhWq-dpR5Sh-dpQVrR-dTvzrs-dTpVYa-7BkXAa-dCHC8j-dGLsMz-9Mvu9s-9Mvu8f-82NDkh-7UFHcE-dobPny-hJPHsS-jcLYdP-agFKS8-bUHkpW-cazwkC

Hi Peter Health wise - "mus'nt" grumble" as they say. I've not got much done of late, other priorities and all that ! Did get some time recently to have a play around when my new 40 arrived, as you will no doubt have read all about it on here/elsewhere ! At long last, finally a 40 that looks the business. Still undecided what to do with it, but I'll certainly be looking in here, to see how you go about the possible ? under tank removal etc once you get a model ? An early (tank less) chassis assuming it will fit the new body, a possible option perhaps ? BTW Nice work also on reducing the 33 tank width cheers Ken

Hi Ken It's most interesting to hear the (first ?) results of the Bachmann "clean-out" fix, it's more or less what I expected. Well described etc , you have also found, the model once sorted, runs perfectly. Without going into the rights or wrongs of whether we should need to carry out such mods on a new loco, I hope this will be of help to some of you willing to have a go. Exactly - I totally agree. Regards Ken

Thanks for the link. I wonder if PH/shapeways could do a similar job for for the 37 nose end MU connector, the supplied Bach representation being long overdue a "retool". In the past I've used/re-worked cast Craftsman parts.