MunichDave

We will start to get some Piccies up soon, painted first coat of back drop last night, baseboards will get there first coats over the next few nights.

There is a German saying, if it aint got a cellar it aint a House ;-)

This entry needs to be read with the Hovis Theme Tune blasting away in the background. I started my Model Railway days back in 1967/8, my grand parents lived in London, while I lived in Manchester well Rochdale really, and every school holidays I was put on the train at Manchester Pic and sent down to Euston where Grandma picked me up for the holidays, I used to wait till the weekends when Granddad would get out this Hornby Royal Mail set, I wasn't allowed to use it on my own, We would play all day with it, At home in Rochdale I only had a small bedroom room, I remember that i had a shelf space of abt 6ft x 2ft to do an end to end OO layout. Then a few years later N Gauge came my way and it doubled my world but I never really got the same feeling as the OO Days, I got older and got married and after a while break from the hobby started to build a small N Gauge layout in a very small loft space where you could not stand up, it wasn't really ideal and I fell out with it and got bored. In 1998 moved to Munich Germany to live and work, had a very large flat but the flat was rented so was very aware that anytime my job could change and I would have to move but built a Arnold German NGauge table top layout with a slight dip into DCC, and things like JMRI with my son. We didnt go back to England much in the 18 years living in Germany but a couple of years ago I had a Dads week ago with my son where we visited Bury Railway Museum K&WV Railway & York Railway Museum , Near the end of our trip my son who was now 16 chirped up and said he liked these English trains so we had a another trip back to Howarth and the K&WV. Now in Howarth is a superb Model Shop, like the ones when I was a kid that was a special place we went and had a look round when my Son spotted A Scotsman OO Set DCC Ready and chirped if he could have one for his birthday, Arhhh well what about when we get home how will you grow it and where, well One European Credit Crisis, I had moved on from being an IT Guy to running a small Pension in Zwiesel, Bavarian Forest National Park, and the house has two Massive Dry Cellars. We where both dreaming of wonderful things.

@ Redgate Models Hi ​I had a Kuehn NO25 left over from our N- Gauge days so we gave it a try, low and behold we have an old Evening Star now running Digital. Big Thank You. Dave & Alex

@ Redgate Models - Big Thank you for taking the time out to mark up the photo that is much appreciated and it does look easy enough,I will let you know how we go with this. Apologies but I had promised the boss to take her to Regensburg yesterday for Christmas Shopping, We went by train but coming back late last night we had to get off the train half way back due to track maintenance, we live on top of the mountain near the Czech border and the 72 seater bus ended up in a ditch at one of the stations back to our home town and we got home really late, thanks again for taking the time. @RAFHAAA96 Yer we bought the train on Ebay Holland due to postage costs, sometimes its not worth bothering, I researched the model number that was given on the net and we discovered it should be DCC READY; but when it arrived the other day we discovered the workings in the tender so "Is not as advertised" but if it is easy to convert will have a goas its a super loco and runs rather well, and my son is a bit disappointed as he seems to have done all his home work on it, but it would be nice to know what Model No it is. Thanks Guys Dave & Alex

That would be brilliant thank you.

Ladies & Gents, We have recently converted from German Railways to English Railways after a visit to England the other year, we recently had all our Locos converted from analogue to DCC, and vowed to buy only DCC fitted or DCC Ready. Last week we bought a Evening Star - Model Number R2785 which was supposed to be DC Ready from Holland, When we received it today the Motor is in the Tender and has no DCC Socket ARHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...... Bus the engine runs really well on analogue. Can you from the following images tell us what model this Evening Star is ? Is it possible to convert to DCC ? If you are aware that this has been already done is there a walk through that will help us do it ourselves. Evening_Star by pensionheidi, on Flickr side by pensionheidi, on Flickr top by pensionheidi, on Flickr Thanks Dave