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Well I'm still completely lost as to what you are trying to say! You cannot convert a code 75 Electrofrog point into Insulfrog just by cutting the two link wires, since otherwise you end up with a dead frog of up to 4 inches in length which very few OO gauge locos will cross without stalling. If you...

Code 100 versus code 75 - What's it all about ? Peco do not seem to have made it clear that in Code 75 Electrofrog points can NOW be made Insulfrog by removing two tiny connections underneath each point before it is laid ! The Duke 71000 Don't understand what you mean here. If you remove the two bo...

You do need a brake coach, and if the service is offering 1st and 3rd class accommodation then it would need to be a brake composite, and Hornby have made examples of this in the Maunsell range.

The Lenz 21-pin decoder has 5 functions so will be OK. About 1/3rd cheaper than the Lenz is an equally good decoder, namely the Zimo MX638D which has 6 functions. Coastal DCC have the Lenz for £28 and the Zimo for £20. I'd go for the Zimo.

Easy enough to solder droppers on yourself, especially as you get to choose whether you need one on that piece of track (not everyone is necessarily using DCC) and where. Track with pre-attached wires will occur additional cost which I suspect most modellers would prefer to avoid by doing it themsel...

Indeed it is a very good model. I have one and it runs superbly. I also like the way Hornby have managed to produce models that reflect the variations between various members of the class. For example, I have 30863 Lord Rodney which was the only member of the class not to receive Bulleid cylinders, ...

The RMWeb thread is already well over 800 posts and is growing by 100-150 posts a day. I often wonder how many of the posters there actually have railways to run! I expect it will top 1000 posts by the end of tomorrow ….

Likewise I bought a DJM class 71. It came with a QC Assurance card, initialled personally the checker. Even before I got the model out of the box I could see a big splash of back paint on the white roof the size of my thumbnail. So sent it back for a replacement. Hooked this one it up to 7 Bachmann ...

They're also available on Ebay - just search on "Preci-Dip" (eg https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Preci-Dip-2-54mm-2-Way-1-Row-Straight-Through-Hole-Male-Spring-Loaded-Connector/113026787048?epid=15020001946&hash=item1a50ebe6e8:g:g~kAAOSwAnJbYB8X ). But the large picture perhaps doesn't show ...

Credit to Hornby though: when my Q1 started suffering this problem they repaired it free of charge even though the model was 7 years old! In my case the problem wasn't intermittent, it was permanent.

The simplest way of representing a double slip is as two separate turnouts, as in reality the slip is just two turnouts overlaid on each other. Then it's very easy to see which route is set.

I found it a bit overwhelming at first, as normally when I access forums the first thing I go to is "New Content". It wasn't easy to see how to do this with RMWeb at first, but I've now cracked it. If you're on a PC full screen then "activity" appears in a bar at the top. Hover o...

In that case it's your choice as to how granular you want to be. Where you have the issue of crossovers you could simply treat the track there as single blocks with the turnout in the middle of the block. But you will need IRJs on both diverging rails so that a train passing on the adjacent track do...

How are you going to use the detection, and in particular what software are you planning to use? Are you going to be using some form of automation to drive trains, as the software will need to know where in a block a train is so that it can stop the train in the right position. Having turnouts in th...

Surely I will need to supply the point with power and give each point its own dropper if I'm to isolate the point from the track that requires the detection? I'm using DigiRails occupancy detection - so current based detection. For a simple length of track leading into a point and having two siding...