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- Sun May 12, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: I'm undecided, again!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 91
Re: I'm undecided, again!
...as long as one wants non-automated point control then nothing really beats the stud and probe on a mimic diagram as it is so quick and easy, simple to install and repair and cheap... And intuitive and fun - that 's for the running lines. For yards I use slide swiches and rodding. It isn't possib...
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: The Workbench
- Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
- Replies: 1441
- Views: 215994
Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
...It would make the family 'work' to access their inheritance. If that's really your objective, leave the wagons alone for any that might appreciate them, instead cancel any will you have made, and die intestate. That's what my parents did by choice (never had wills, just told me what I was to do)...
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: DCC Sound advice sought
- Replies: 7
- Views: 79
Re: DCC Sound advice sought
...Fitting it was fiddly because of the lack of space... The interior of the 57xx is well packed with metal ballast, but it is removeable if prepared to part dismantle the body, this is relatively easy and can be done with no resulting damage visible when reassembled. The panniers are filled with a...
- Fri May 10, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Workbench
- Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
- Replies: 1441
- Views: 215994
Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
When a few people said "Railway Modelling" is dead after the closure of Hatton's. Many of us said what rubbish, emphatically so !! Well something is wrong in the world, it MUST be, as here we are with no fresh postings in this thread for nigh on a Month... There's always something of an o...
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: New discoveries???
- Topic: RFID tags
- Replies: 23
- Views: 396
Re: RFID tags
As always, many ways to skin multiple varieties of cats; and you only want those that are of definite value to your particular operation. Mine is unseen derailment (any cause: foreign object, coupler or other vehicle mechanism failure, etc.) to avoid dependence on the mk1 earhole picking up the resu...
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Sleeper Built Buffer Stops
- Replies: 2
- Views: 69
Re: Sleeper Built Buffer Stops
Seen spent ballast suggested - credible and logical, but that doesn't = TRUE - but never searched for an authorative opinion as they don't occur at my chosen locations.
- Thu May 09, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Rapido.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 96
Re: Rapido.
I see the Germans have removed the snakes for greater efficiency, none of that backsliding.
- Thu May 09, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: New discoveries???
- Topic: RFID tags
- Replies: 23
- Views: 396
Re: RFID tags
...then if its the front or rear tag... its not recognising thats a train, just a series of tags... With locos and dedicated brake end vehicles having a 'start/end of train' bit on the tags, that's a nod to traditional railway practise of 'lamps' at both ends of trains! Enables some 'signalman code...
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: Personal Layouts - Planning
- Topic: Failure and restarting
- Replies: 41
- Views: 810
Re: Failure and restarting
how many have fallen for making the clbuttic issue of thinking security filtering is easy... You should see what it is like in a multi-lingual context; the long ago cla r seic first introduction to the subject was the sales failure of the Rolls Silver Mist in Germany. And as for images which are le...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: New discoveries???
- Topic: RFID tags
- Replies: 23
- Views: 396
Re: RFID tags
Looks like you have functioning proof of concept there. I would want to test for effects from being right next to your wifi hub, using your mobile phone, and other like sources of local broadcast traffic.
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Rails & Hattons 'Archive' auction.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 79
Re: Rails & Hattons 'Archive' auction.
I love all the 'approximately N items'. (Trays skilfully loaded with a plastic snow shovel?) That said, there are bound to be a few good / useful items in some of those fruit and veg trays for anyone with an eagle eye and the patience to carefully inspect. Now this may be coincidental, but while in ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: Scenery
- Topic: Great Central station - Scenecraft 44-119
- Replies: 6
- Views: 300
Re: Great Central station - Scenecraft 44-119
Being a 'less is more' type, I find Knebworth station (GNR construction) very attractive. It's a type of inverse of the GCR scheme with a low level entrance. The station is on an embankment, has two island platforms to serve the four track main line, and apart from some platform shelters and lamps t...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
- Topic: Clackwick Circa 1955
- Replies: 169
- Views: 26681
Re: Clackwick Circa 1955
I write all my passwords down, just like I was taught never to do.
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:00 am
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Frog wire length?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 66
Re: Frog wire length?
The only aspect I am concerned with is that the bond to the crossing is good. That's the vulnerable spot, because should that break with the point installed, and especially if ballasted and weathered, it's 'a little annoying' to repair. I leave all track feed wires with enough slack to enable track ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Scratch and Kit building
- Topic: Handrails
- Replies: 4
- Views: 143
Re: Handrails
That's a mistake I made! Elaines Trains definitely still in business.
Eileen's Emporium is the one you and I - and doubtless many others - are missing.