Jenny Emily

I was lucky enough to get an interview with Pete Waterman about his OO layout featured at the Great Electric Train Show. Showing on Youtube from 6pm:

The motor on my Loadhaul class 14 let out the magic smoke after spending its life in a display cabinet. Was definitely a real challenge to get it all apart! I had a spare motor from a redundant class 17 chassis and it was a like for like replacement. Took a lot of effort but the 14 has been working fine since.

Thanks for the replies! i got a decoder to fit by gently bending the pins so that the decoder sat at a slightly different angle. It was still a super tight fit though.

Is there a size that decoders are supposed to adhere to? I am trying to DCC fit a locomotive for review and cannot fit any of the standard decoders I use from four different manufacturers in it because the space provision for the decoder is too small. Before it gets a zero mark for DCC fitting, and resultant half marks on running quality for being unable to take common brands of decoders and therefore cannot be tested on DCC, I wanted to be sure whether the common brands of decoders are oversize or if this particular loco is not adhering to whatever standard there might be. It is a recently released 6 pin socket loco.

They are also have problems with phones and internet after, I think, a council work crew managed to dig through important cabling close by. I’m sure that isn’t helping matters right at the point they are trying to process through hundreds of orders.

The pre production model of the MDV I commissioned has finally made it to Wear Yard. Seen here in the company of a HUO for comparison, both sport appropriate loads (those who watch the Monday Club will realise why a TARDIS)

The Monday Club wagon sample:

There is also the newly released rolling road from DCCconcepts:

I’ve had one for must be over 16 years and all still works fine. The loco has run a lot.

I recently did a video overview of the Rails Connect point motors and installation. A particularly handy feature is that the DCC versions can be used on DC and switched by push buttons or passing contact switches and give frog polarity switching and LED outputs suitable for panel indicators or colour light signals. The underboard motors can either be connected direct to the points with tabs like the Peco, or screwed direct to the board underside as they have integrated screw mounting points on them that allows easier mounting and a much smaller vertical footprint.

The video I filmed with the Genesis livery samples:

Pictures of the Monday club commissioned wagon sent from the factory in China:

A couple more images showing the LMS and departmental ones.

I have the Genesis coaches livery samples here for filming for a video coming out probably on Friday on Youtube. very impressed with these. They are robust, run well, lit versions have no light bleed and the detail and livery application are sublime. sleeper hit for me are the LMS versions. Not on my radar until I saw them here. Absolutely amazing in the flesh.

They are well packaged using scrunched up packing paper and foam. As a company we send a huge amount of products globally so as you can imagine it is in our interest to package goods so they don’t get damaged in transit, because we also don’t want the agro of having to sort out stuff damaged en route.

Depends on how much people are looking to buy. Up to I think 2kg and within certain size constraints overseas postage is £10. Unlike quite a few other retailers, DCCconcepts have actual physical stock on shelves for immediate despatch with a huge order inbound to us from Tillig in Germany. Most lines are planned to be an in stock item, not ‘order on request’ like many others do.

DCCconcepts also stock Tillig track. We do have a reasonable amount in stock having had a delivery earlier this week with another delivery expected soon. https://www.dccconcepts.com/product-category/track-and-track-making-parts/tillig-elite-track-and-pointwork/

Not commissioned by Rails. The Monday Club wagon is commissioned by me and only me; Rails are merely the retailer handling order fulfilment. If people don’t like it, don’t buy it. The livery is, however, prototypically accurate underneath the extra branding. It is also a different wagon identity from any other version offered. If people want to T-cut the special branding and logo off to reveal a perfectly prototypical TOPS era MDV, then go ahead. The livery was designed to let people do just that and it really doesn’t bother me if some people do. They are selling really strongly with something like 75% sold out to pre order so I’m not actually too bothered if a few rivet counters spit their tea out over them. I put my own money into commissioning these so I can do whatever I please with the livery. In this case it is specifically to promote a livestream event that runs for two hours from 7pm UK time on Youtube every Monday where several thousand railway modellers from around the world get together to hang out and get us all through the loneliness and isolation a lot of people have felt through lockdown.

I’ve just filmed a review on the 86. It really is a great loco, though getting the body off to DCC fit it is a little tricky - those clips don’t like letting go!

No as my own Youtube channel is independent of my work at DCCconcepts. I just happened to use their products because I sit all day in a room full of the stuff.

I have a King TTS decoder acting similar, but not entirely the same. I get sounds but no movement. I tested it in another loco and it is definitely the decoder at issue. No shorting though.

Can anyone suggest a source for buying a Garrett soundfile for a Loksound V5 decoder? Everywhere I search online seems determined to only sell decoders with the soundfile pre installed. I have the means to get the file uploaded onto the decoder, just need a good source for the file. Not interested in any service that requires loco or decoder sending away to be done. Thanks in advance.

I got a cancelation email from Hattons for my W1. I would love to know if anyone who ordered their W1 from Hattons has not been cancelled on. There is no point ordering to then be suckered late in the day after other retailers are sold out. Hattons just lost me as a customer unless the item I want is in stock when I order it.

I had the pleasure of reviewing D7661 and 25912. Excellent models and well worth it for the price. The perceived problems some people have fixated on really aren’t an issue when you actually have the physical model in front of you. It is so much better than the older Bachmann model.

I’m looking forward to these. I ordered a trio of SECR ones pretty much a year ago. The original BR and SR ones impressed me. No payment taken yet.