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I've looked in RCTS and including the later updates "one at least - 2239" was still unfitted at the time of publication in 1956. Need someone with a book on the 2251s

Anyone spotted the bees at Crowcombe Heathfield? Buzzing all around the camera.

It also is dependent on installation. e.g. open wiring, clipped to wall, buried in plaster, bunched in conduit etc. All are different ratings for the same cable. I'm bemused by all the talk of even minimal voltage drops needing to be eliminated for a booster to work correctly and cut the power on an overload Every piece of track on my layout is feed through 2 diodes* which drop the voltage in the range 1.2 - 1.4 volts, yet the booster cuts on the slightest hint of a short circuit, it is set to 4.5A trip and is fed from a 110W DC power supply. * for occupancy detection.

So 60 ohms per km and current rating at a given temperature isn't a good enough description?

All I could find was this (from BRM): https://www.everand.com/article/724910357/The-W-R-Re-Signalling-Scheme-Concrete-Train

But you are not a DCC engineer.

IIRC Digitrax actually recommend this. The McKinley Railway used this as it was being built to verify the wiring.

I notice it's 5 years old. It also rolls out the same old discredited twaddle, especially the I suppose the twit that wrote that goes everywhere in a "modern technology" gas guzzling Range Rover.

It's just a square wave with a varying duty cycle, hardly complex. This is mine using a 'scope with DCC capability It's also very low in the frequency range (app 8kHz) where the effects of Inductance and capacitance do not have a huge effect The biggest effect is resistance which will affect the speed of the loco if the voltage is dropping by any measurable amount 13/0.2 typically has a resistance of about 60 ohms per kilometer, that's 60 milli ohms per meter.

Europe includes the UK where 32/0.2 & 1mm are both used to describe the cable The RS Pro cable has 17A rating, several other brands show 10A or more Most DCC suppliers sell it for bus wiring and IMHO 10A is perfectly adequate.

What's the point of buffers if you don't use them occasionally?😄

Don't do funnies then? I assumed it was a bit of self deprecation.

Originally to be the Primettes (the Temptations were to be the Primes) Does that mean the Velvelletes had a companion group called the Velvels?😕 Bobby Vee & ? as in the Drifters (Cliff Richard &) 🙂

How to lose your credibility in one sentence😄

I thought Making Tracks was 3 separate layouts joined up for one time only in that configuration?

I found an article in the June 1910 issue. (Traffic Department Notes)

I've got the 2009 edition which is considerably revised and extended. If you can see a copy it's on page 79 in the section on coach livery 1908-1912. The complete quote implies that the paint colour is the same as with the previous chocolate and cream, with just the cream omitted and presumably the lining adjusted to suit.

If you can find a copy of "Great Western Railway Magazine" from 1908! Great Western Way has a direct quote from it:

No list like this is ever complete, as new information inevitably comes to light. Part 6 was published in 1959 but even when parts 12 (1974), parts 13 (1983) and part 14 (1993) were published more information is appended. Nothing on 572 though!

Wow, how slow is that?

It can be used as an identity card in the UK.

It cuts through a field of oil seed rape and a concreted car storage area. It misses the only wooded bit on the old airfield site. I agree with Ron. There appears to be no justification for a tunnel of any sort.

Off again, same message as March 12th.

The line is the Louisville & Indiana RR (CSX running rights) and the crossing line is CSX Indiana Subdivision The Camera is on "Bite The Bullet" Gunshop. (Found all that by looking for Seymour IN. on Google Earth & Open Railway Map.)

Of the Handsacre-Manchester bit, the section to Crewe is IMHO the most important section as it bypasses the bottlenecks between there and Crewe and bring the biggest benefit..