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Very sad to see it go! Truly been an inspiration and literally one of my three favourite layouts ever!
A sad loss.
Thanks for sharing it and best of wishes for were ever your interests take you.

There are a number of suppliers that do less than 12 per board, look at Peco, heathcote,dingoservo,walthers to name a few, or you could build your own from discrete components or an Arduino!

Start practising the Lotus position!

I like every picture!
The brass wagons look awesome, I cant believe your patience for such small brasswork!

Hi Jim, I'm liking the sounds drifting this way. Don't be afraid of big, but keep it simple. It looks like you've noted many lessons of design and skimping can lead to problems but don't build a battleship, 6 mm ply should be fine and honeycomb reinforcing from the same material can work. My questi...

Matching a resistor to an LED as per the calc will give 100% brightness and long life. For us modellers, modern LED's are too bright. Increasing the resistance will dim the light, but only when using one resister per one LED, as soon as you string LED's together (Series) or group LED's with one resi...

Great news you can start again, I miss version 4 already! I am glad to say that past versions of my layout and a lot of research on the net, mean I am complacent I have all your lessons learned in place, the only problem I have, is that because of an eventual house move, I don't currently have a run...

Plastic wheels? :o BLASPHEMY! :lol: Yes I also change all mine to metal wheels. I have really seen the price of Hornby wheelsets rocket in the past couple of years, from a sensible £8.50-£9.50 upto a staggering £16.95 in Gaugemaster recently but they are still much better than those gunge grabber p...

Welcome jscousertommy As a beginner, you have joined the right forum, there is a very helpful bunch on here, have a think about what kind of layout you want, era and type of control (DC or DCC) and scale, let us know your thoughts and we can direct you to some useful resources to research and throw ...

Make a catalogue of all your rolling stock, as detailed as you can, then take pictures of them and the build and include raw materials and tools. It is very difficult for an insurer to argue against 'in context' pictures. Otherwise they will come up with a nominal sum and it will be woefully short o...

Talcum powder! (painted black)

I have yet to build mine (I have cast the sides out of herculite from a silicon mould made from a master made of Linka) but I can advise on all the methods I have researched. The sides can be made from card with paper (stone/brick) covering or from plasticard, quite easily or just sloping embankment...

Wonderful!

Your explanation of board construction, nicely confirms my findings through research, over the last umpteen years.

Following with great interest. I am planning a layout half the size, but £25k still sounds scary.

Depends what scale your after! If it were 1:22.5, then 6in post would be approx 6mm, I would look at hobby shop wood supplies or possibly DIY store wood beading, but probably the best option may be lollipop sticks (think candy floss) from china https://www.lumsdonia.co.uk/tips100.html#108 and https:...

There are several commercially available PCB's available to give shuttle control for DC and similarly for DCC, DCC Concepts have just brought out a range of "Black" decoders that have a shuttle function built in!