Gary H

There's one born every day mate! Plus there's always a village that's short of one.

**************ONE FOR THE TRUE COLLECTOR MUG******** There, fixed that for him!!!!

This has to be a worthy contender for "Ebay Madness". I especially like the bits that say- """but it obviously has not seen any action""" and...... """Excellent used, professionally weathered""" The slightly dubious weathering I don't have a problem with despite it looking like it was used to round up cows. Its the bending of the truth and exaggeration to scam the unwary out of their hard earned that grates me! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LIFE-LIKE-PROTO-2000-SOO-LINE-CLASS-ALCO-RS-27-LOCO-415-DCC-DIGITAL-WEATHERED-mw-/111046815927?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item19dae7f0b7 Please look at the supersized image, top row on the right of this """Excellent used""" over priced piece of c**p model. Looks like its been used as a football.

Hmmm, I can't see that catching on to be honest

Isn't this the old Lima model with a few little updated bits on the outside?? Im amazed its fetching that much TBH.

Un flippin believable! And then the 12.99 postage on top!

Also- Item specifics Condition: New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item Hmmmmm............

Haven't they just. Ive always been of the opinion that when it comes to weathering models, paint 'what you see', NOT what you think you see!

No problem! Would like to hear the sound on the GP15 sometime too.

That's a shame about the bulbs, although the Athearn bulbs are always lambasted by everyone, its a shame you blew them! Wish you had of asked as I'd could have given you a heads up here!! Mind you, Athearn bulbs being what they are, they seldom last more than a few weeks anycase. If you want to replace them, ive a fair few that Ive removed for LED's myself. All Il ask if you want them is the cost of postage for half a dozen of them. For an ESU newbi like myself, that was an informative video! Its interesting about the 'bridgeable' pads for 12V bulbs or LED's as NCE boards use the same thing on some of their DCC decoders! Its certainly a useful feature! You may need to check the output voltage on those light pads as with the resistors in use for 1.5 volt bulbs, I don't think that will be enough for a LED??!! Ive ended up bridging the pads (like you already done) and used my own 750 OHM resistor for each LED.

150 quid!!!!!!!!!

Looks like the item in question was a 'layout' . My guess is he made a serious miss judgement when he listed it or failed to notice he didn't enter a start price. Either way its poor!

So in this instance, would the seller automaticly be billed 10% of the selling price straight from his Paypal account, even if it was his bid, Tony? Im guessing that could be said he's not just shot himself in the foot, but blown it clean off!

Just a heads up, Jon. Have you looked into using Parcel Force to ship this? I only ask as my Mrs uses it to post Equine Saddles occasionally. Due to the value of these, some in the region of 6 to 800 pounds each and the weight of them, she can get them shipped with full insurance and proper tracking for about £25. A saddle must 5 times the weight of that HST set!

It would suggest that this would be an issue with the decoder rather than the actual physics and constraints of a speaker assuming that the speaker is properly baffled to start with! Air horns by their very nature are more in the way of midrange and treble frequency's and so are more easily re-produced by our tiny speakers compared with the deep rumble of a diesel engine! (AKA bass!) Ive noticed that on especially Soundtraxx Tsunami decoders in particular that the horn sounds are always below par compared with say a QSI with the same horn. Its especially noticeable with a K5LA on an SD70ace. Personally, I live this shortcoming in the Soundtraxx as I think the diesel engine sound is more accurate than a QSI. On a slightly different note, I listened to the horn sound on a ESU V4 fitted SD40-2 earlier and again, the horn sound atleast totally eclipsed the Tsunami version, but the owner of the model noticed that the diesel engine sound was louder on the Tsunami even though both models in the test used the same speaker set-up! All very surprising I thought. Horses for courses and all that.

The problem is that to have any appreciable bass, you need to move air and to move air you need a big bass cone! There's no problem with high treble frequency's but those lows are a whole different ball game in a model locomotive.

Yeah, that's the one. I couldn't find the email I had at one time but a couple of minutes detective work found this thread with some good sized pictures of the damage. DAMAGE!- http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=165984&mid=1190655#M1190655 To be fair to GE (which will be a first for me ) Legend has it that particular failure was because the fitters didn't torque down the hold down bolts when they replaced the liner and piston assembly! That FDL7 16 is 183 Litre incase anyone wondered.

Through turbo failure which is normally the cause on these big GE's, the engine basicly runs off its own lube oil being pumped in through the knackered and seized turbo bearrings. A diesel being a compression ignition engine will run on nearly anything like oil etc. If it runs away, there aint a lot you can do about it unless you want to try and plug the inlet with something which is very risky on a 140 ish Litre diesel engine running flat out! I had an email from a guy a couple of years back that showed some pictures of a GE power unit that had ejected a complete cylinder and piston assembly clean through the roof of the loco. It travelled through the air, down through the roof of a house. Part of the piston ended up in the owners plaster board wall inside the house whilst the 'power assembly' ended up in the garden!

I'd put money on the EMD SD40-2 and its sub classes (for want of a better term) as possibly the most successful diesel locomotive of all time. Don't think there's been anything to match it for longevity and durability save perhaps a GP9 maybe, which funnily enough is another EMD! They still have GP9's and SD9's and their similar later models running around in America that are getting close to 60 years old.

Ha! Yep, typical "Trash 9" GE junk right there! If I had a quid for every time Ive seen or heard about this happening with GE stuff, I'd have enough for a Loksound sound decoder for one of my SD70's by now!

That is spot on! the best GE sound Ive heard to date, certainly streets ahead of the QSI version.

Looks like he found it washed up on the beach!!

Crikey! Check out some of those alignments on the curved sections that incorporate straight switch's!! The 5th and 6th along from the left. Makes you question what the rest of its like!

Its great these old stalwarts are popping up again. Back in the day I used to loath them but I'd really like to travel behind one again now! Only problem being its nigh-on a day to get to any starting point from this end of the country. How time and "progress" changes your point of view!

That's a shame! Having spent 10 years of my bashing days in the Thames Valley area during the 80's, its like an old friend. 500 was ofcourse one of the 4 chosen for the GW150 event. 628 was scrapped back in 06. Just looking around Class47.co.uk, the other being 079 was converted to a 57. Now 484 is the only one of the GW150 class 47's to survive.