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  1. I always use lais in my US locos plastic and brass ,shays ,rod and diesel and never had any problems at all .I use the cheap Bachmann eZkrap controller or a MRC Tech6 as I am a cheapskate .One Lais decoder doesnt like coreless micromotors is it the next18?
  2. Years ago trains were part of the fabric with model trains being fascinating and only jets and a rockets to tempt us kids further . Now the fantasy is computer and science related and trains are just there to carry around poor sods who cant afford cars .Why should kids like model trains when the universe is before them and fantasy wars and goodness knows what else is on offer .Model Trains are a lost cause for largescale continuity as there is little to fire a kids imagination .just leave it and let the coming generation make their own ways of spending a fortune on toys.Bot my grandkids played on the floor with toy trains .thomas was popular but its lost now in a sea of VR ,Taikwondo ,basket ball,gameboy etc .
  3. New Rivarossi C&O Allegheny 2-6-6-6-6-6-6-🤣 looks interesting ,nay awesome .
  4. Pay Bluebell to paint loco in that livery for a while then its a valid finish .Who could possibly argue with that .😇
  5. yeah but it works better and the display hasnt fallen to bits with weird alian symbols so for me it works QED
  6. I got an analog Sneider IMT243113 from Amazon .it was fairly cheap and works fine .Better quality than the yellow cheapies
  7. This is my experimental ,mental being the word , roundy .it takes little 0-4-0's like Pecketts ,B4's and Bavarian DVI.most short rolling stock and couplings ,i slightltly modified a Hornby SECR four wheele and its fine too .Radius is about 6 1/2 of our finest kings inches.its all ballasted and correct now .
  8. I can just picture the layout some one could make.Its all there .
  9. An H0n3 C-16 and rescue the gauge please cos Blackstone seem to be going nowhere .Well thats upset everyone ......
  10. Its straightforward to mount a plate .I use a Post It "hinge' to make sure it goes in the right place ..First position the plate on the model then stick a low tack "hinge " over the model and plate so when the plate is lifted off and hinged back it will land in exactly the right place on return.Then apply glue .I use super glue but clear laquer will also do .I use the method on 1/43 model cars that have lots of tiny PE parts that have to stick on a perfect finish and possibly be polished as well .only one go or all is lost .hope it helps .
  11. I came across this photo on facebook and it struck me that it would suit an industrial layout suitably compressed what with ships and the river in front ,a road and a siding running into the works t .The curved track at the end amight be a handy escape route to a yard at the back .As I will never make it i pass it on to perhaps someone more interested .Forgive me if its been done already .
  12. Mainly Trains did a whole sheet of varios lamp irons that might do .
  13. http:// This is my Pagosa junction combine by PFM.I bought it in a bargain job lot of built H0n3 models .Its a bit special as I painted it in the early eighties for a customer of Victors in the customers private line "O Hooligans Lumber ".Weirdly it has astep missing as did the plastic coaches .
  14. re Anglo American I have used them several times and had good service .i bought a brass loco and some Kadee lo cars plus some bits n bobs .
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