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Tender drive doesn't bother me except the fact that perhaps we ought to "get it right". Wanting a model of Furness Railway number 20 (open cab 0-4-0 with 4 wheel tender) I had no hesitation in building the tender on top of a motor bogie. Giving it some thought a six wheel tender is pretty ...

The only difference in wiring for DCC in the US is the primary side of transformers will be for 120v AC at 60 Hz not 240v @ 50Hz. this has absolutely no effect on the DCC side. They may use American wire gauge numbers where we use number of strands x their thickness, but a quick question on here wil...

Jim, your low light scenes have all the atmosphere of damp winter evenings in the Black Country, It seems ridiculous that they make me nostalgic for those times, that I last endured almost 70 years ago. Brilliant, aar kid!

The number of those shorty coaches I see at train fairs/swap meets I doubt Hornby could have made more of them! I've cut and shut them into just about every number of compartments you could want. The one I haven't done is turning one into a brake coach.

Whatever's heavy and available in your chosen locality. Likely to be ballast surplus and spent and any lumps of masonry concrete, cast iron which are lying around the yard. Probably will get a top dressing of reasonably clean ballast.

If you use Chrome it has a password manager. Save the passwords when prompted, then the password manager will list them out by websites but hidden with asterisks. It will display them if you supply your Windows password or PIN.

Yup your right, Sorry Elaine.
It's for things like that, that you really miss a good local model shop, where you can look at what's available.

I was a network manager for an academic site, one of my colleagues asked me if her son was making things up. He told her he could access blocked sites at school. So when I got a chance to talk to him I asked him what he did. When a site returned access blocked to http:/...... He typed in https: It c...

They are the first people I'd try, "Elains Trains" is much missed.

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Even those faced with Bulleid's foray into alpha-numeric seem to cope... Can anyone explain to me Bullied's logic in using the format n1-n2-alpha rather than the more obvious n1-alpha-n2. It's easy enough to understand, but doesn't translate well to other systems. Or was it just another example of ...

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Got it. The Collet Goods to be precise. Mine wouldn't allow two long screws to be tightened, but I've seen other examples where they touched and some where they would never touch. They didn't seem to grasp that the screw lengths mattered. The quality control bods probably knew what to do when they g...

We used to get "strafed" occasionally in the days when they were practicing in Tornadoes, there being a convenient hill with trees on the top, they'd fly over at a safe height do a tight turn behind the trees and drop down so that they appeared in front of you just above the roadside hedge...

I've just watched a video on overhauling a split chassis, (no names no pack-drill) I spotted a mistake being made in the reassembly with no recap to fix it, so either it was fixed in the editing or there's a fault waiting to happen. Each through, threaded hole into the plastic takes a screw from eac...