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A while ago I bought a Bachmann pca wagon and now I want to but the Hornby vee wagon. Is there a significant height difference as I've heard there is

Does anyone know where I would be able to get this product. Ive seen a couple of videos on YouTube but can't seem to find them Ive had a look on eBay. Also are they exclusive to the USA.

Any new updates on these wagons

Cement distribution centre.

Steel mill.

Use Peco Flexi track. Possibilities are endless.

Use Track pins from USA. they are very hard to bend.

Don't forget to put cork underlay between track and baseboard. (like i did to start with :-( )

Don't be scared to take stuff apart and add lights, people and paint stuff.

Build your own platform from wood and paint it.

The reason for the advice is , simply this , the Op is considering using a crap material , he has been pointed to the correct material , end of story

 

Chip and mdf have no place as baseboards , awful stuff in horizontal configurations

Check that the rails nearest the deadzone are clean I've found that my sentinel stalls if the track around that area is dirty.

As the title describes where would I be able to purchase these from.

Just thought, I was assuming the OP meant Diesel Sentinel. But I doubt a steam Sentinel would have a lot of spare capacity for steam heating anyway, even if fitted with steam pipes. Mention of electical 'pipes' does suggest diesel though.

What would be the point? They'd need to have a steam heating boiler and a water tank for a start, and most shunters wouldn't have room for them anyway...

As the title says would they as I have a spare one and really want to fit it to my sentinel. I've already fitted a vacuum. Brake as I know they were fitted with them at some point in their lives.

Trying to fit white metal vacuum pipes. I did this today and fitted the one I wanted to fit perfectly but then I decided to paint one up ready for my class 37. I mustve been painting too hard as it snapped. Oh well at least I've still got the steam heating pipes.

What kadees couplers should I use for shunter locomotives. I have a sentinel (diesel) and am getting a class 08 would I be fine to use No.17,18,19. Or not.

After hearing about how good these models are I had a look and they are good but at £90 odd each they're awfully expensive for plastic kits.

Does anyone know if Hornby are going to make a sentinel 0-6-0. From what I've seen it looks like it would only need a new chassis as the body is the same.

Hi,

 

There is the Make your Mark kit of the Plasser 12T crane:

 

http://www.makeyourmarkmodels.com/page3.htm

 

Not sure if a kit is available of the Cowans 12T version.

 

Cheers

 

Simon

Had any one had any experience with an arduino as a dcc controller. I've seen a few videos about it. But none seem to say how to make it or explain whether it would be practical or not.

It's probably best to ask in Computer Control, where I know more nerdy members hang out. Or maybe in DCC, although as I have no interest in DCC I don't go there to find out if they're equally nerdy!

 

Now if you wanted to discuss using Arduinos for DC or radio control....... .

Had any one had any experience with an arduino as a dcc controller. I've seen a few videos about it. But none seem to say how to make it or explain whether it would be practical or not.

Hopefully this makes things a bit clearer. The two tracks will be where the two wagons are. Turnout behind the cottage.

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I'm thinking of two platforms along the back. A full-height railway platform to the left, and a low height tram platform to the right. The rest of the layout (which I designed and built as freight line ...) seems to be visually made for a tram, but the curves and loading gauge still take mainline coaches happily enough. For a modern setting, the railway platform can be "out of use" but used for parcels or a cripple bay. For an older setting, the tramway platform will hardly notice for what it is and I could stand a small hut or similar on top of it.

 

I think this project is going to be fun to make - hardly any railway (I have never completed the ballasting on any of my 16.5 mm gauge layouts ...), minimal wiring, and plenty of ways to try to make the surroundings look pleasing.

 

- Richard.

Something that really annoys me is people that constantly ask me why I do the hobby then to say it's boring anyway.

I usually buy ones that I like. Even if they don't exactly fit in with my era.

Dave, good to see you and this latest opus today at Warley.

I was saying I'm building a 7mm micro, well that's had builders block for the last 6 months and your effort was just what I needed to see to push me onward again. Am now having a serious think about reorienting it into a NCL/ parcels depot...Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery ! Bought a green 08 to go with it !

Is it Stafford next year ?

Cheers John.

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, limited space/”micro” type layouts are my speciality, due mainly to a lack of household space. I currently have six such layouts, all of which follow the theme of industrial shunting, one of is in N Gauge, the rather quaintly-named Nutt & Bolton. Why is it called this you may ask, well because the layout is based around a small, fictitious engineering firm, Nutt & Bolton, whose name is derived from the fact that nuts and bolts feature rather prominently in the world of engineering. My chosen era is the BR blue period of roughly late 1970’s - early 1980’s, occasionally also BR black/green, and the layout is completely contained, as it manages to squeeze Nutt & Bolton works, a warehouse, goods/coal yard, diesel refuelling point and the controls/fiddle yard into a space of just 3’ x 1’, which tends to illustrate the potential of N Gauge rather well. Nutt & Bolton took about six months to build, and has given me many hours of pleasure, both in it’s construction, and from an operational point of view, and for me at least, it is perhaps proof that a layout which is small and simple can be just as interesting as something larger/more complex. Nutt & Bolton is also my current oldest layout, and is now in fact approaching it’s tenth birthday, having been built at the back end of 2007. And as it’s served me well/been more or less fault-free for almost a decade, I now look forward to ten more years of the same.

Looks amazing. It's surprising what you can fit into such a small space.

Okay, I may have to look into getting a Bachmann cea wagon or swap it for a box van.