captnimo

This is route I am going with the MS450 but using a double speaker Boombox (40x20x10mm 4ohm 2W) and not using the engine one.

I have a problem that someone might be able to help me with. My layout (Waldbury) is on the front cover and featured in the latest issue of Hornby magazine. I really know very little about prototype steam railways let alone their signals and I need/want to start signalling the layout. I have read CJFreezer’s book on signalling and am none the wiser. What I need is some one to photocopy the track plan from the magazine and make notes of what signal, gantry, position etc etc would go where. I do not want a full track diagram just notes like”Home on a single post here” or "Home and distant on gantry here”. Better still if anybody lives in the Southend-on-Sea area and would like to pop round for a couple of hours and go through the layout with me. Once I have an idea I can make them using Wills parts and scratch built. Any out of pocket expenses will be repaid plus a fee. This is the best track plan I can get. Hope someone can help.

At the moment I am running my wagons in rakes using Kaydee couplings at the each end. I am looking for a neat close fixed coupling (not automatic) that I can use on goods rollig stock. I have many Roco type that I am using but really do not like them. I have just bought a load of Keene but there is no movement in them. On my coaches I have used the heating pipe coupling. I have spent many hours but I now am getting very frustrated. Any ideas, and I don't mind making them.