BokStein

Better than being frozen over

So, comparing the above photos of the model with the photos of the prototype, you seem to be saying that the PROTOTYPE is wrong? Hey ho, your loss!

Follow up the 'phone call with an email and a letter so there's a trail!

DCC has an asymmetric wave form and, as such, has no polarity. If using a voltmeter to check its presence, use an AC range.

! How do you find the response of the Ring system? I only have a doorbell but it takes an age to see 'real time' events to the extent that they are over before I can respond So, hopefully, the new passport will arrive a week next Tuesday! Another nominee for a Darwin award?

From another thread: Hapeney!

Have survived the train journey to and from the local metropolis and now have provisions for tomorrow. Must now go and prepare the car for tomorrow's journey; headlights, windows, external mirrors and rear number plate are a tad grubby! Apparently, it's useful to see where you're going and illegal not to be identifiable!! Would love to fit a Fresnel Lens over the number plates though! Interesting: poor car doesn't know what's hit it! 2017 to 2018 MoT, just shy of 900 miles 2018 to 2019 MoT, just shy of 700 miles 2019 to 2020 MoT, more than 2,500 miles (mostly since March)!

I already have!

Morning awl, Looks like a trip to the local great metropolis is on the cards to get tomorrow's lunch. Matters arising (take one large pinch of salt!): Yum! Still is mine! Now, is that the Anti Podes or the Antipod ees?

Before I bid you Good Night, With maternal relatives rife north of the railway, Coss'm it is! Do you mean Lemster?

Order one and find out!

Bomag, You could try 10-1671 and 10-1674 perhaps? or 10950-D1 for the decoders?

As you can see from the train formation diagrams with the set information, the motor is NOT in an end coach, so the bespoke 3 decoder set is required. Regarding previous TGVs, if they had a 10-xxxx part number, they were more likely Japanese format; if the were 10916, for example, they were Lemke modified with the ESU circuit boards.

The motor is in one of the middle coaches so the Kato / Zimo set of three decoders WILL be required; one specifically for the motor with two to control the head and tail lights. You could, of course, bodge an installation of an alternative decoder if you wish! https://www.osbornsmodels.com/k10950-d1-kato--n-gauge-ice4-3-piece-decoder-set-47623-p.asp IIRC, the TGV units were originally produced without DCC sockets and ESU produced a replacement circuit board with a 6 pin socket. When Lemke started to control the TGV models, they supplied them with the ESU board and a blanking plate. The motor was in one of the driving coaches. The 800 models are being produced in Japan to the same arrangements as their bullet trains as were the ICE4 units which arrived in the last year.

The latter, Kato's Zimo bespoke decoders, I believe! The motor's in one of the middle coaches so would need a motor decoder and two head & tail light decoders.

How fascinating is the way in which we contrive to strangle the interpretation of a combination of letters! About half way from Kircaldy to Glasgai is the Falkirk Wheel, compromising two caissons (= Kassoons) in which the canal boats ascend or descend. Nearer to home might be Slough (= Slouw rather than Sluff, as in Luffbra [Looga Barooga / Loughborough]) Going back to the Isle of Wight, there's Whitwell = Whittle Shorewell =Shorrel Brighstone = Brigstun Isn't the Welsh Ll more like a gutteral Khl? On the south coast, travelling between Chichester and Fareham, there are two of the most violent towns in the country: Cosham and Bosham! Correctly pronounced, they become Cossam and Bozum!

Respectfully Sir, you overlook their collaboration with Peco on, for example, Double Fairlie 0-4-4-0. "David Lloyd George".

I believe that the export market for Kato is only some 20% of their production, hence why their catalogue is only in Japanese! However, with Hiroshi Kato's visits to the UK, maybe this might change!

Belated Good Morning, Cornwall - how could I have missed Mousehole = Mowzul?

Most likely, knowing Kato, and with the motor not in a cab coach, NO socket. I suspect: https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/kato-k10950-d1.html

Whichever, it certainly ain't All Ses Ter!

More like men(g)-is, I suspect? here's some for you: (= i.e. is pronounced as) Bicester = Bister Leicester(shire) = Lester(sheer) Alcester = Alster Warwick(shire) = Worrick(sher) Gloucester(shire) = Gloster(sheer) Leominster = Lemster Worcester(shire) = Wuster(sheer) [I love the american food programmes where they are unable to get their tongue around this famous sauce!!] etc. but Cirencester ain't Cirenster! As for LugaBerouga - do you really mean Loughborough? Some interesting ones from my time on the Isle of Wight: Whitwell = Whittle Niton = Niton but Knighton = K-Niton Shorewell = Shorrell etc.

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