Waverley47708

Have been looking around the web, but cant find a service sheet for the Railroad HST yet.  Looking at the other railroad diesels they seems to have gone for a different chassis to the old Lima where there is a single connection on top of the motor that connects into a bridge on the chassis.

As a result assuming the chassis will fit into the Lima body (fingers crossed) I'd need a new motor, chassis and most likely a front boogie.

50 minutes ago, MrTea said:

Ok. I’ll upload some pics once it’s arrived. 
 

As @MGR Hooper! says above both models use the ex-Lima tooling. The box artwork on the GWR train set is the source of the confusion as it features the pre-super detail era Hornby mouldings. 
 

It’s also not helped by the pricing strategy as @GWR-fan points out - you can get a train set complete with a carriage, track and controller for the same price as two blue/grey power cars. 

Thanks, looking at the photos and of the rear boogie in particular, I suspect it may need a replacement chassis or a mod to the original Lima one to fir a new motor.

14 minutes ago, RAF96 said:

If you go here and scroll down the list...

http://www.halton96th.org.uk/articles.html

Article 11 deals with remotoring (DVD unit) and Article 10 deals with lights. Ref is made to additional pickups including for  the dummy car.

Thanks, but been there done that.  Seems that CD motors don't like Gaugemaster controllers and it lasted an hour or so.  At least that was the advice I got from the Ebay seller who to his credit gave me a full refund.

I am looking to repower a couple of old Lima HSTs I have with the motors from these ones.

If I can source motor from this release (the blue grey will it drop into and old Lima chassis.  Or will I need to buy the chassis and motor and will an old Lima body attach to the new chassis.

Pictures of the inside, motor and inside of body would be appreciated.

Slightly confused but are we saying the GWR railroad is the old Hornby model and the blue grey are the old Lima.

On 09/12/2019 at 22:30, raetiamann said:

 

With the exception of the DBSOs weren't the coaches Mk2e type rather than Mk2f?  Wouldn't bother me, but it may (or may not) be a factor.

There was also a rake of Mk2 non air con coaches . 

On 07/12/2019 at 08:23, Waverley47708 said:

Was rather hoping to see the ScotRail Mk2s by now especially since the Mk1 Full Brake appeared quickly after being announced.

 Was in the process of rewriting my letter to Santa from ScotRail Mk2s to the Hattons crane thing only to find it's being put back to 2021.  Oh well I'll need to think of something else.

We had a visit from Primomodels on Thursday.  They are manufacturers of trees.  Michal came across really well and clearly has a real interest in the hobby.  He spoke about his range of products and we gave him a tour of the club room and a brief look at the outside tracks.

If you get the offer of a visit, I'd take up the offer.

https://primomodels.co.uk

Was rather hoping to see the ScotRail Mk2s by now especially since the Mk1 Full Brake appeared quickly after being announced.

On 20/11/2019 at 17:02, Waverley47708 said:

The club was on the road again last weekend with a visit to the Falkirk Model Railway Exhibition.  The last one at the college and the end of an era.  Looking forward to returning next year at a new location.

 

 

Part 2 of the video of Falikrk Model Railway Show.

On 20/11/2019 at 17:10, Waverley47708 said:

Enjoyed the show on Saturday. It was very busy by mid morning.  Some excellent layouts from Scarborough again.

 

A video from SMET member and our own roving cameraman Andrew Gebbie.

 

 

 And now, Part 2.

Enjoyed the show on Saturday. It was very busy by mid morning.  Some excellent layouts from Scarborough again.

A video from SMET member and our own roving cameraman Andrew Gebbie.

The club was on the road again last weekend with a visit to the Falkirk Model Railway Exhibition.  The last one at the college and the end of an era.  Looking forward to returning next year at a new location.

Looking forward to attending with Perth Model Railway Group.  Always enjoy the show. I like to get in area to have a good look through the second hand stalls for a bargain or two.

I always enjoy your photos of Carlisle.  Nice to see it was a dry day for a change.

Another video to enjoy.  This time it shows the inside of our newly opened facility on a typical club night.

A video from our latest two outings.  Dundee and Greenock model railway exhibitions.

Would AWS be used in passing loops used by passenger and freight.    The location and time period ( which I understand is all important  from seeing many questions asked in the past on RMWEB) is the Mid 80s Scotland.

Great idea to use reversing cameras which come with monitors.  Had a look for one which doesn't come with the guidelines on the screen.

Last week we moved the remainder of our stuff into our new shed.  It was definitely a case of many hands make light work.  Cars, vans and a large truck we burrowed were all used.

The solar panels which charge batteries all week long will hopefully give us more than enough power for club nights, making our new green coloured shed green in more ways than one!

Meanwhile on the outside new pathway is been formed from the shed to the ticket office for the train rides and station.

On 17/09/2019 at 22:38, JiLo said:

I'll be there with my in-progress layout Seething Lane, being exhibited in its current state to show and explain to folk whats involved in building a layout, and (hopefully) demo-ing the Roco z21 app based DCC system

 

Looking forward to a good show as always (and those bacon rolls...)

Funnily enough I was just thinking to myself esp with the interest in Great Model Railway Challange that a part build demo layout would be of interest to visitors.  Quite often visitors will ask questions about how a layout was built when we are exhibiting.

Great idea.

Although not a fan of space layouts.  Once again  three great layouts.  I think the quality of layouts this series has been better than the first. No doubt partly as people who saw what worked last year.

Well done to both layouts that got through.

Busy month for the club, two exhibitions, Dundee and Greenock and it looks like we'll be moving into our new home at Wester Pickston just outside Perth by the end of the month.

 Am really enjoying the Alan Harrison Collection on you tube. The latest video at Stratford in 1986 features a MK 2a FK or should say the Mk2a FK in Scotrail at the end of a rake and later in the video a ScotRail full brake behind an electric again as part of a rake of  coaches.

I've seen the FK in blue grey pre 1986 as part of the 1984 Jacobite service 477 Mk2a and DBSO  between Edinburgh and Inverness but think it wasnt part of the rake in ScotRail livery that did Dunblane Edinburgh push pull rake by 1986.  Perhaps no longer required it wondered the country looking for something to do!

Three fantastic layouts tonight.

Have been making progress - slowly anyway.  Have added extra framework underneath the boards to prevent sagging.  Now that the points and motors are in place and since I know where the Heathcote Electronic units will go for the signals.  I was able to add the extra framework below the tracks.  

In the meantime, years ago I got a Railfreight Redstripe 37, however it apears this livery didn't appear until 1987.  Must admit although I liked Railfreight livery, personally I did not like the Redstripe version on 37 or 47s anyway.  I managed to get an original Railfreight version, 37906.  I assumed it would just fit on however a little bit of work is needed as the new body nose end are a little different to the old one.

By the summer of 1986 some Welsh 37s had started appearing in Railfreight livery.  Just need to find one to renumber to with the clips above the head code box. 37906 only fits into 1986 by a couple of weeks being converted mid December 1986. Some of the 3769x  were converted in the summer of 1986.  Will also have to change the overhead warning stickers to the older version.

Will just have to imagine this Welsh machine came on a trip to Scotland.

Before above, after below.