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My word! Now all we need is to see them in N gauge and I can die happy AND broke!

The loco and rolling stock may not handle the very tight radii of set-track. I don't own those items so can't help. Hopefully someone will be along to advise you on that soon. As to your options B and C seem workable.

ngresley thats cruel !! I can understand Bufferstop getting so excited at the thoughts of a reasonable running Hornby 0-4-0 his spelling went to pot ...... Geoff T. Actually Geoff it's a downside to using my tablet's spell checker. - it automatically applies the Google AI checking which I suspect i...

Having ridden on the balcony at locomotion I can confirm that it's a modification for that purpose.

Hattons are not stupid . While they may have been caught out by Bachman’s response when they initially decided to go for the 66 and supply models wholesale they certainly have had time to consider it , since Nov 2-18 in fact . They must have come to the conclusion that they can make more money on t...

I think the whole thread should be locked!

It's costing me a ruddy fortune.

I got something of the same size last week. Hidden, quite successfully, in all of the packaging was a packet of 10 Dapol N gauge Easi-shunt couplings. In contrast I got a boxed Arnold n gauge DRG class 95 loco in a double wrap of cardboard which was in pristine condition.

I've been in N gauge since 1975 or 6. In my time I've stripped and rebuilt locos and other rolling stock. Made coaches and wagons either direct from kits or bashed from kits. My hands are arthritic and I get stiff from too much bending, but I still repair and service my fleet. I understand why other...

Darlington too.

As a side note why on earth would any manufacturer with common sense go for a split chassis anyway? ... This, and the coreless motor, and the gear coupled wheels and floating rods, and the glued together construction, are all because he is N gauge oriented. That's the mechanism technique he knows, ...

It's an interesting read and I too am somewhat surprised that he thinks this will work. Time will tell. Sadly the N gauge world has plenty of past 'announcements of model' followed several years later by a quiet dropping of the project. I've been caught out by several manufacturers who promise an it...

Yes, after I hit 150 locos I did a rough valuation, which shocked me rigid. So for less than a new loco I covered it with Magnate, who specialise in such things. I have not needed to claim so cannot recommend them, other than they covered amount at reasonable costs, and yes they cover stuff away fro...

As a DC dinosaur, I'm often impressed at shows with the low speeds reliably possible on DCC. However at show after show I see mainline expresses ambling along at a scale crawl. If 60mph = 88ft/sec, which it does, and your OO scale is 1/76, then at 1ft/sec you are travelling at just over 50mph, a not...

It's a hobby that can be 'all things to all men', and women. For me I like watching the trains go by, and enjoy a little shunting. So my main layout has both. I am also building a small shunting layout. Neither would satisfy the rivet counters, and a do admire their dedication to their standards, bu...

I'm in my late 60s, have arthritic hands and find N gauge is easily doable. I've been in N since 1974 [or 5, memory fails me] and can strip and rebuild any N gauge item I've got, and I have a LOT!

OO users frequently tell me N is too fiddly.