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Is this the one? http://www.ngdr.net/Manifold/Clockwork/ClockworkARM1G/index.html And here the video of it: https://youtu.be/FqrEiEOE-VQ Regards Fred

The first loco in the clip has the body of a Hornby postwar 0-4-0 tank-locomotive but it has the mechanism of an electric 0-4-0 (it is not one of my locos). I do have the clockwork version, also in LNER and LMS, and they still run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87wHKiADgxA Regards Fred

Yes, I oiled the engine, but did not use the oil from the set. I left the Triang oil bottle unopened. Regards Fred

Recently at a swap-meet I found this new old stock Triang train set RS29 from 1963 with B12 4-6-0 locomotive and 2 coaches. I made a video presentation of it: https://youtu.be/YR5Oplr9CjE Regards Fred

This weekend I spent 2 days with the Dutch HRCA group at the yearly Eurospoor exhibition in Utrecht. Besides Hornby we also ran trains of the current coarse scale world like ACE and Darstaed. A couple of years ago I brought among some electric tinplate trains a clockwork Hornby loco with some coaches to Eurospoor and had a couple of runs. It was clear to me that my DHRCA colleagues and the public were not interested. This weekend one of the newer members also brought some clockwork trains to run and it looked like he and I were the only interested in clockwork. So I appreciate your thought but I am afraid there is not much market for it. Here a video I made of the trains running on Friday; at the end a clockwork one! "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StuLhlpfRNM" Regards Fred

I think it is the 040TA but without is rear axle (bottom of the 2 pictures): Regards Fred

You need that kind of power when you run a couple of larger Lionel locomotives with a lighted train; I have a 400W MTH controller that delivers 10 amps to each of the two circuits you can control (and two fixed voltage 3 amps outputs for trackside accessories). Regards Fred

I use normal 60W bulbs as can be seen here: https://youtu.be/NEr-9xrJDMw Regards Fred

I do not have a Hornby High voltage loco but do have a Märklin High voltage (Starkstrom). I tried it with the lamp controller and directly with a variac. It needed about 50 Volts from the Variac. With the lamp controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAzrdx_uFgI With the Variac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk7_c_kNDr8 Regards Fred

American Flyer 0 gauge and S gauge had in general 4 positions reverse units; later cheaper S gauge locomotives had 2 positions reverse units. Regards Fred

Dave, In the US Lionel and MTH still make locomotives with sequence reversers; of course it is all electronic now (no mechanical relay) but thousands of Americans are used to it. Regards Fred