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Did you check the gauge of the track it was standing on. South Africa would be 3'6", doesn't look like India or Ceylon, they have High roofs and low windows, and would be on 5'3" bogies.

Ken, you say all of the wheels turned, which is odd, did they all turn the same way? Is one of the cogs a double one with large and small diameters. Having been playing around trying different sizes of gears with the aim of building a motor bogie, I decided at one point to introduce an extra cog int...

Welcome Ackers, it's certainly more than "just a 6 x 4 roundy, roundy. You certainly do have a flair for the scenery. Looking forward to more photos

John W
aka Buffestop

My loft is low, 2" too low to stand at its highest point. Got to be a true pain in the neck.

There's two sides to the equation of worn tooling, if it's particularly old and you are hoping to use it with a new producer will it fit their nice new machines. You wan't to change the mechanism, so the inside of the body is the wrong shape, the detail on the outside of the body is getting a bit fl...

It amuses me to see the performance when a coach is removed from a rake and someone has to get down and fold away the knuckle coupler, so that the loco can be attached to the hook hiding behind it. Non compatibility of couplings has been around for years and doesn't appear to be going away.

To make it work well you would have to devise a method of detecting a vehicle approaching the point where the car from the ramp joined the main flow, or simply rely on the Mk1 eyeball and a push button to release the one waiting.

Tom I think your estimates are pretty good, the only figure that is fixed with any degree of certainty is that any wire or cable span crossing above the tracks had to be 16' or more above rail level, searching old photographs often gives clues as to how high the other spans were. I've seen one where...

If you think the wagon spacing on 00 looks bad, avert your gaze when an N gauge train fitted with Dapol's version of the knuckle coupler comes around. It's horrendous.

It is more a matter of getting the right sized wheels. Bogies need 10.5mm wheels and wagons need 12.5mm. Except that Triang originally used 10mm for everything. If you put the wagons on 12.5mm wheels the buffers are far too high. 10mm might be ok on freight bogies, but you can always make adjustmen...

What annoys me about Tensionlock couplers in NEM pockets is that they stick out so far ahead of the buffers. KD's and the continental hook and loop design are much shorter. I cut between 1-2mm off the front of the pocket and put a dab of clear glue on the spigots before pushing the coupling back in....

Taking the old wheels out is dead simple. By now the plastic will be quite brittle. Just crush both the hollow axle pieces with a pair of pliers, then slide the whole lot to one side and the carefully back past the axlebox to get it out. You'll see that one end of the axle has raised splines on it s...

Each to his own Chris, welcome back. You have a private message.

It was noticeable that the majority of the N gauge layouts at Warley this year were large "trains in the scenery" designs rather than single board "spacebusters" and the quality of the scenery was excellent.