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Push-pull
I have some old Grafar Gresley suburban coaches which I have been fettling up and painting. I thought it might be amusing to convert one to a push-pull to run with my N2. It's a quick and dirty...
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rmweb
RMweb is intermittent, this is down to problems with the hosting provider. It looks like Dreamhost, which is also my hosting provider, and all my stuff is intermittent too. They are a shower of...
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Been shopping
25 x PC77 and 25 x PC80. That should keep me off the streets for a while. My test builds of both models have been very satisfying, the tricky bits to my mind are: * Getting the angled sides properly...
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N gauge 3rd rail chairs
Hi, Does anyone do 3rd rail conductor chairs in N gauge? I know Peco do them for 00 but not N. Rob.
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Night scenes
Some experiments with model lighting (only, no ambient). This is not bad considering it's a cheap digital camera, not a digital SLR or anything. The first couple show the level crossing lit by the...
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Hoppers
I've just built my first Parkside Dundas BR 21T hopper. It rides so easily I think I'll call it Dennis. I'll get my coat. Guy
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Dapol working signals
Dapol have released working N gauge semaphore signals, which is quite cool. Are there any RTR OO gauge semaphores? Guy
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n Gauge & DCC
Thank you, Wolf K, for taking the trouble to respond, and Nigel for your more positive advice. Will go with the latter and let you know how we get on. Best wishes.
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Tight Curves and Industrial traffic
I'm off to Sz=E1zhalombatta on monday, and having a bit of a poke about on Google earth/Maps is quite interesting. There is quite a smart looking station building at Sz=E1zhalombatta...
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MRM articles
There are some MRM articles that would be useful to me, but they have vanished in the move to the BRM website. Does anyone know if the old PDFs are still available somewhere please? I am specifically...
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An unusual prototype
Guy Model Railway Models,G Scale Model Train,O Scale Model Train Layouts,Studio Kits,Model Train Track Plans,Hornby Buildings OO
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Marooned!
I have made a momentous decision: in order to be able to use steam and diesel without worrying too much about hopeless anachronisms, I think I can go with a period of late 50s to mid 60s, which would...
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Parkside NE 20T hopper
I seem to recall reading an account of building this kit somewhere. I've built some basic Parkside kits and large numbers of immensely complex military models over the years, I want to settle on a...
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Retaining walls
Hornby did some acceptable brick retaining walls in the Skaledale range but typical of my luck they are withdrawn and unobtainable. I need to build a 4mm/OO retaining wall about 1.5m long and rising...
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DCC switch for Programming Track
Got a quick DCC question. Most controllers (some) have a seperate output for DCC programming track, so allow you to actually program the DCC decoder in the locomotive, normally (hopefully) this is a...
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