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- Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:42 pm
- Forum: Track/Layout Design
- Topic: Headshunt length
- Replies: 10
- Views: 855
Re: Headshunt length
Agreed Jim. The short headshunt is long enough to run a pug round but not much else !
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Workbench
- Topic: Taming Smokey Joe
- Replies: 20
- Views: 992
Re: Taming Smokey Joe
minipix wrote:End2End, those are exactly the sort of axles I'm interested in! My challenge at the moment is finding them within budget. DCC Concepts sells them in packs of 48, which seems a little excessive given that I only want 2!
Wind your own from a bit of phosphor-bronze wire.
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:52 pm
- Forum: The Workbench
- Topic: Taming Smokey Joe
- Replies: 20
- Views: 992
Re: Taming Smokey Joe
The springs are above the footplate on some 264s and below the axleboxes on others, it varies between batches and sometimes between works visits as does the pattern of driving wheels, position of rear sandboxes (and presence/absence of same) and provision of buffers. For a comparatively small class ...
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Workbench
- Topic: Taming Smokey Joe
- Replies: 20
- Views: 992
Re: Taming Smokey Joe
Duplicate oops !
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:51 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Peco Track still in Short Supply
- Replies: 13
- Views: 769
Re: Peco Track still in Short Supply
What you have to consider is that like any other manufacturer the world came to a halt, no one was making products, this had a knock on effect. What stocks were available were rapidly bought up (supply and demand)... Quite. There are far more companies making bog roll than Code 75 bullhead track an...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 12:06 pm
- Forum: The Workbench
- Topic: Taming Smokey Joe
- Replies: 20
- Views: 992
Re: Taming Smokey Joe
A lot of the 264 class (and the very similar NBR Y9 class) ran with wooden tenders, like a cut down coal wagon with the end nearest the loco missing. They gave the locos a much longer range and also seem to have acquired the usual detritus associated with shunting - spare lamps, couplings, chocks, e...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:45 am
- Forum: Track/Layout Design
- Topic: Headshunt length
- Replies: 10
- Views: 855
Re: Headshunt length
As long as it needs to be, or as long as it can be depending on what it is constrained by and what exactly it is the headshunt to. Ideally it should be longest loco you expect to shunt with + longest rake you expect to shunt. If it's only loco plus half a rake you're going to have to do the shunt in...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: RAILS of Sheffield and Hornby
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3181
Re: RAILS of Sheffield and Hornby
There is nothing in Rails' announcement to indicate whether Hornby have refused to supply Rails (which is what happened with Hattons/Bachmann) or Rails have decided to stop stocking Hornby. Bachmann acted when Hattons went head to head with them with the 66, competing with Bachmann as a manufacturer...
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 4:45 pm
- Forum: Track/Layout Design
- Topic: Help needed to mix styles
- Replies: 7
- Views: 542
Re: Help needed to mix styles
All three operated together for a reasonably long period depending on where you look. Sticking to places that actually have RTR electrics available and excluding preserved steam: West coast main line south of Crewe/Manchester/Liverpool between 1960 and 1968, ex-LMS and BR Standard steam (with some r...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 6:30 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Crazy Prices
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1312
Re: Crazy Prices
Or buy it for 4.50 from somewhere that isnt one of their 'selected grocery stores'.
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 1:36 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Crazy Prices
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1312
Re: Crazy Prices
The not really free mag appears to be a Sainsburys promotion, the cover price is still £4.60.
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:05 am
- Forum: Personal Layouts - Planning
- Topic: Coaling locos
- Replies: 4
- Views: 528
Re: Coaling locos
Ratio do a small coaling tower, little brother to the concrete megalith types found at the big sheds and much easier to find room for. It's an LMS design found at Wick and Stranraer. Some LNER sheds had a free standing hoist which lifted tubs of coal up but I'm not aware of any kits for that type. O...
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 11:09 am
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: What would you do in this area
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1011
Re: What would you do in this area
There needs to be something there which pre-dates the railway otherwise (in real life) that large and very expensive retaining wall would have been a cutting. A church is obvious (probably too obvious), how about a big house ? I.e. Georgian or earlier, probably now quite scruffy and run down, maybe ...
- Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:21 pm
- Forum: Electronics
- Topic: peco pl-11 point motor
- Replies: 9
- Views: 695
Re: peco pl-11 point motor
Oops on both counts, sorry. I've found the PL-11 to need even more fine adjustment than the PL-10 I was thinking of.
- Sat Aug 08, 2020 5:24 pm
- Forum: Scratch and Kit building
- Topic: Removing lettering without damage
- Replies: 3
- Views: 451
Re: Removing lettering without damage
If they are the old Gresleys now in the Railroad range then I think they are self-coloured plastic and you can use T-cut or possibly meths to get the printed numbers off. If they are the more recent superdetailed ones with the teak finish painted/printed on then then what Bigmet said. Dont press on,...