Colinw62

Class 59 and Class 66/67 have different prime movers and sound very different

Hi - any ideas who the organisers are - wonder if they would be interested in my Bedford St Giles layout?

I think Nick Palette is organizing this  

Top man!

Colin

Re the Cab Coach lights. Have you fitted these yourself? Are they a kit or have you sourced the parts yourself?

Mal

What do you do with the previous layout? Do you just rip it up and move on with the next project?

Colin

Thanks Barry

I'd just found it and tried to post a link as I'd not seen your reply, somehow managed to delete my post in the process!

Colin

Oh dear.  Lifted all the track this evening, went all a bit Coachmann.

Yikes! Sounds drastic

I use NCE PowerCab,  will run 4 loco's no problem.  

I looked long and hard when I was buying a DCC System.  The PowerCab is the only one which I think is truly one handed operation.  Intuitive too.

There has been plenty of discussion about which DCC System to go for elsewhere on RMWeb, do you research, ask questions and actually get to try the systems out if you can.

Colin

I saw a demo video of a custom finished CSX SD50 with the ESU chip - simply the best rendering of an EMD 645E3 I ever heard.  That's pretty much what sold me, glad to hear your experience bears it out.

 

Of course, now I'll have to look at wireless throttles, command stations, blah blah blah.  I have no idea where to start!

Dr,  NCE PowerCab.  This will pretty much solve this dilema.  You can't use the US wireless stuff in the UK as far as I know.  Trust I'm not a Dr

If it helps, Walthers has just released a model of those access platforms.

Have you got the part number for these ?

Kadees have always fascinated me. The fact the the coupling also looks right is great, such a better option than what UK outline have with the tension lock.

Colin

Since kadees have become more common on UK stock a lot more modellers know about them Over Here now, but a decade or more ago, if a US-outline layout had hidden, under track magnets especially, many Show viewers were utterly baffled by how American stock could uncouple "all by itself"....

It was one of those mystifying things, like all-axle-flywheel-drive, that compared to the standard British r-t-r models of the time, seemed so much like witchcraft that the term "The Dark Side" started to be used over here when refering to modelling US-outline....

...which creates an interesting cornundrum for the average punter at an average show, who wonders why someone would go so far as to remove the trip pins, when such a valuable asset has been provided by the manufacturer...

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it domiate your destiny, consume you it will. 

Maybe they're meant to run on wooden tramways......

Really Useful Boxes. Available from W.H.Smiths or on-line:

 

http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/uk/

 

They are brilliant. I have virtually every size they make. My wife has threatened to have me buried in one!!

I guess your wife might see that as Really Useful !!

Most entertaining - I certainly enjoyed watching that , and it just goes to show that even a "simple" switching operation takes time .

 

Those weathered hopper cars really look the part as well, and I still maintain that with a change of stock , North Haston could be set anywhere in the US and it still would look "right".

Chris, this would look good running in LA mode        

Colin

Hi Chris

I'm liking those hoppers!

I'd pop along but I'm playing trains at Model Rail, Newark this weekend with Brenton Midland...

Colin

Great idea Jack, I'd thought of "borrowing" this plan too!

Looks like the race is on!!

I may have to break cover soon