darrel Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 One thing to note with both peco and Dapol OHLE structures is neither have structure numbers. However I found someone who makes model railway signs they don't have a website but they can be found on Facebook search for eagle 1 model rail signs. They custom made structure numbers for me and they are very reasonably priced. I ordered them on Monday night and they arrived this morning Wednesday. Excellent service. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewlisle Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 (edited) Further to my comments 9, 61 & 66 in this forum, the catenary wires are upto 1000mm long and span upto four masts. They are not tensioned but the tension & strength in the wires is by virtue of the wire material being 0.5mm high tensile steel, the permanent 'kink' put into the wires at each mast to supply the stagger on straight track (in addition to 'pull off' & 'push off' masts) & between masts on curved track after making the wires up flat. Also it allows the accurate positioning of masts on curves with straight catenary wire between masts & not having to probably compromise because the manufacturer did not make the correct length wires. Remember, the length of catenary between masts is unique for each layout as it depends on the position of point work & radius of the curved track. On the visible section of my layout with catenary the track radius varies from 500mm upto 2000mm through the station with eight points, two tunnels each approximately 600mm long & crosses two baseboard joints. I am currently writing an article which covers the positioning of masts, manufacture of catenary wires, catenary in tunnels & catenary across baseboard joints inside tunnels. Edited April 28, 2016 by Crewlisle 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted May 14, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2016 (edited) With this Peco development hopefully this will encourage some manufacturer to produce a rtr class 303 Glasgow Blue emu and other earlier emus. Edited May 14, 2016 by Colin_McLeod 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrel Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 With this Peco development hopefully this will encourage some manufacturer to produce a rtr class 303 Glasgow Blue emu and other earlier emus. Yes please I will buy at least one of each livery if someone wants to bring out a Class 303 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost of IKB Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 With this Peco development hopefully this will encourage some manufacturer to produce a rtr class 303 Glasgow Blue emu and other earlier emus. If only, a 303 and 304 would be perfect for my future layout. I won't hold my breath though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted May 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27, 2016 shocking they couldn't bother to model the wires after getting the rest so realistic . . 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted May 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 28, 2016 shocking they couldn't bother to model the wires after getting the rest so realistic . . image.jpg It's not that they can't be bothered. They've ordered them from Dapol. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John ks Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 shocking they couldn't bother to model the wires after getting the rest so realistic . . image.jpg The Backdrop looks excellent, the clouds look almost real The people in the station all seam to be in natural poses The skin tones are spot on. The track looks like Kato that has the ballast touched up with a brown wash so that it doesn’t look so grey The HST looks too clean and the paint is too glossy, is it the new one from Hornby? The trees are a bit ordinary. They look like straight out of the box Heki Overall the modeller has done a creditable job John 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John ks Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 You forgot to mention the light and shadow effects there John. IMO they've over-done it, too bright and sunny: this can't represent that grey and rainy Britain we all know so well, right? Sorry I missed that, I wasn't thinking, where I come from that looked normal Just like any other bright and sunny day here in Queensland John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted July 17, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2016 The Backdrop looks excellent, the clouds look almost real The people in the station all seam to be in natural poses The skin tones are spot on. The track looks like Kato that has the ballast touched up with a brown wash so that it doesn’t look so grey The HST looks too clean and the paint is too glossy, is it the new one from Hornby? The trees are a bit ordinary. They look like straight out of the box Heki Overall the modeller has done a creditable job John The modeller had problems, getting a nice consistent surface on the platform though. Didn't have enough yellow paint & didn't stir the tin enough for the 2nd go! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 The date is 10th October and nearly somd four years on from the last post on this subject, all seems a bit strange that there have been no further updates on the thread, the PECO and Dapol OHLE ranges havent really expanded beyond single masts and wires. PECO were understood to be working on a multi-track gantry, something which anyone modelling OHLE would certainly be wanting, whether for two, three or four track areas. I met the PECO rep at my local model shop but it was there where some peculiar observations were put to them, for example, the then example class 86 sat just under the registration arms of the gantry with its pantograph down, surely PECO would have checked this before going to the bother of making a demonstration piece, even if it is a demo piece, surely modellers and model shops across the country were going to see this. It is an important accessory must-have for anyone modelling 25kv and it's great to see not just the advancement of manufacturers offerings but all at a time when the number of electric models is growing rapidly, with the Bachmann classes 85, 90 and 350 Desiro, Hornby's new tooling Class 87 as well as future offerings from Heljan (86) and Accurascales (92). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted October 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2020 This seems like a normal rate of progress for Peco. They don't seem to be under the same pressure to deliver as more recent entrants to model manufacturing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said: This seems like a normal rate of progress for Peco. They don't seem to be under the same pressure to deliver as more recent entrants to model manufacturing. Yes of course, having got back into this hobby about three or four years ago, this appears to be the case but with an active following, threads like this for modellers who own any of the following, one would have thought this particular thread would have seen more activity than nothing for four years: Bachmann Class 85 Bachmann Class 90 Bachmann Class 350 Desiro Heljan Class 86 Hornby/Lima Class 86 Hornby/Lima Class 87 (current or new tooling) Hornby Class 90 Hornby Class 91 Hornby/Lima Class 92 Hornby APT Hornby Pendelino Hornby Javelin Hornby Azuma Forthcoming Accurascales Class 92 Heljan Class 86 Back in March of last year, the PECO rep visited our local model shop and I got the chance to see the latest mockups of their planned multi-track catenary, as pictured below. Edited October 10, 2020 by DBC90024 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Looks nice. on my list of possible future planks is a slice of bescot, so I’d have to have some of those I think . 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Electric Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 (edited) It's nice but, as with their single mast, the insulators are too small and of the wrong kind of shape. Also the upper support arms could do with some little pulley wheels for the catenary wire. The little square things to threat the wire through spoil it a bit. But the overall shape of the portal looks fairly good. Legs a little on the thin side perhaps? Did they give a suggested retail price? Surely etched brass will push up the RRP compared to injection molded plastic stuff? Seems an odd choice if they want it to be mainstream successful - It will need to be sensibly priced. Look at the insulators - although in various different shapes and sizes, they all have 8 sheds compared to the Peco 4 shed's which are clearly too small. Colin Craig offers some excellent cast metal ones in the most common shapes, and I have 3d files to print the portal design in the second pic. Though as many people have said before, the problem with modelling OLE on the WCML is choosing exactly which structures to replicate, because there are at least a dozen different types of portal and the layout of the registration fittings also varies widely! Edited December 27, 2020 by NorthenElectric91 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 @NorthenElectric91 As I understood from having spoken to the PECO representative, this was a proposed structure and very much a draft, no way, could this be the finished one, for starters, it was too low, with a ballasted and mounted track base, the cantilevers sit at virtually the height of the 86 pantograph in the down position and thats before one gets on to the more intricate cantilever designs and the components that make these up. As for the price, i dont recall this being something we discussed, this was just one thing he was there for, and I got the impression that he didnt know much about OLE, this was back in March of last year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost of IKB Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 On 29/01/2016 at 17:58, sub39h said: Been a cracking month for modern image modellers - OHLE and Mk3s A lot to save up for! Well after five years of saving up for these we should be able to electrify the whole 400 scale miles of the WCML. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost of IKB Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Well, maybe today we can finally accept that this whole ohle stunt was one big , well orchestrated, long running, april fool gag that took us all in and made us look rather gullible. Time to slink off quietly to the safety of 3rd rail modelling. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 I decided to use slightly less than accurate but cheap and available Hobbex OLE rather than wait for someone to introduce something for the UK market. Think I must be approaching the tenth anniversary of my first loco drawing power from the OLE... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thohurst Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Has there been any update from Peco on the multi-track portal since they showed the sample some time ago? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 (edited) Email sent to PECO from their online form on their website Hi PECO, I am trying to find out what is happening in relation to the lovely PECO multi-track Catenary masts you were making sometime ago, but nothing seems to have been updated as far as I am aware since the midlands representative brought a mockup of this into the store mid 2019. Hopefully he was able to relay my concerns that actually the mast was too low in height. With the apparent lack of progress or communication regarding this item, I have since opted for nBrass's brass masts, but i am still interested in the ''proposed PECO offering - it goes without saying that this is a golden opportunity for someone to make a ready to use product for a market place swelled, not only Bachmann's Class 90, but the new Heljan Class 86, Accurascales forthcoming Class 92 as well as the newly tooled Hornby Class 87 as well as all the other EMUs and other previous electric models. Please can you advise Kind Regards Kat Edited November 25, 2021 by Johnson Street IEMD 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium njee20 Posted November 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2021 Did you email that to them, or are you asking via the forum…? I don’t believe they’re on here… 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 1 minute ago, njee20 said: Did you email that to them, or are you asking via the forum…? I don’t believe they’re on here… i used their online form ... and put my email address on that ... so we'll see what happens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixie Dean Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Presumably nothing heard?!? On 25/11/2021 at 18:08, Johnson Street IEMD said: i used their online form ... and put my email address on that ... so we'll see what happens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Street IEMD Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Nowt, zilch, Zero Not a dicky bird ... or a scooby do .... Bad form Peco .... Especially, when they are sitting on the crown jewels of WCML/ GEML OLE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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