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I liked the headless man standing by the grave in Monty's photo's!

There are several kinds of cat litter, the clay-based ones are usually 'clumping', but there are sawdust and/or paper-based ones that are not. As an aside to the aside - my cat can be asleep in the garden (when isn't it!), but will come in to use the tray, then goes back out again! Feline logic!

PJ - I removed the box with the address details, before re-making the vid! Obviously the layout is DCC sound - not ALL the loco's make noises deliberately! - The controller is an Elite. As I've put in previous comments, the track is mostly Peco flexi 100, with Hornby plastic-frog points. Every section of track is connected to a BUS by droppers (except one or two places, where I've been forced to make temporary 'jumpers'across rail joints, due to temporary inability to get underneath, after rearranging the track - again!). The camera I used is the Mobius, a self-contained 1080P video cam that records onto an SD card and will run for about 2.5 hours on it's internal battery. It measures 6 x 3.5 x 2 cm, and was attached onto the top of a high-sided four-wheel van with a highly technical mounting (ie elastic band!) Bulver asked what size the room - silly answer - most of it! In reality, 18 x 12 feet (convert that into these foreign measurements yourselves!) - the 18 being the central area with all the main structures, at which point the boards are 3 feet wide. The two ends are wider, at 4ft, to allow a reasonable curve radius. I'd like it to be bigger, but it won't fit! There is a turntable hiding behind the coaling tower (ash tower!) but it is merely being used as a tree and junk store at the moment - rather like most of the real ones! Being a large and mostly flat area, the layout tends to double up as a parking area for assorted other stuff, hence all the radio-controlled model planes 'parked' on it. (They have to go somewhere!) As mentioned in previous posts, the stack of boxes against the wall at one end of the station/storage area contain a collection of four-wheel private owner wagons, made in short runs of 100, for a nearby mining museum, who are trying to find samples/photo's of original stock for all the coal mines in this area.

Second attempt! There isn't a lot of scenery, just yet, this is very much a work in progress! The rather over-sized helicopter sitting on the roof is a charity thing for the local (to me) NorthWest Air Ambulance. The first clip is an A4 'Sparrow Hawk' with a rake of Gresley (fake) Teaks, then the next two are a GBRf 66, first with a short freight, then a rake of seven mk 1's. I was going to run an EWS 66, but it failed with a TPWS error (in truth, it's having a fit of the 'staggers' and needs a clean and lube!), so one was borrowed from GBRf as a stand-in. The 'theme' for the layout will be of a 'Preservation' line, sharing the other side of a platform with a local branch line which sees a few Sprinters and the occasional freight movement. - When you've fnished laughing and sneering - - - - - -

I had just made a short vid of my layout in its present form, but on playing it back I noticed a box of miscellaneous junk - with my name and address clearly visible! As I don't require uninvited 'guests' - start again! 😳

I do like your Tee-shaped signal-box, Phul - is that home-brewed?

muffle juction on the xthefut line to ndgyrndsi - - is that near Llanfutgarglecough?

Some of the DCC sound decoders have a small range of 'platform noises' on them, as well - including the classic indecypherable P.A. announcements! (The next train on platform burble is the muffle to burble, waffle and garble!) I don't think they are accessible with a Select, but the Elite can reach them.

To keep Paul P happy, here's my layout that no longer exists! I'll get a round tuit and make a new vid, if/when I can get the lighting right! - (and once again, the 'clicky' link didn't work! You'll have to copy and paste, or swipe over it and 'open in a new window').

Maybe, WTD, but it does have 'real' coal in it! (And it took ages and ages to get that rusty patina inside, too!) :-)

Yes, that tree in the left foreground is so realistic! And the photoshopped steam clouds are just perfect! :-)

Not exactly MY layout, but this is where I was playing trains yesterday! /media/tinymce_upload/c33b035f219b1ccfa8b747dd45e4cb8c.JPG

Does this count? http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee160/2e0dtoEric/Halton%20model%20club%20images/spit%201_zpspzi85j06.jpg

On e-bay, the price is what people are prepared to pay for them. I wouldn't pay 2d for the whole set! The only non-realistic (as far as OO scale goes) wagon I have is the Llanfair p g one, because I wanted it to put a couple of narrow-gauge Ffestiniog wagons on as a load - (from Harbour station shop). I've since added an extra-long low flat wagon, to carry the recently released Welsh Highland coach!

That's the nature of the game - there's always something you find after a while that could have been done differently, or better, or both. That's why you are always advised to NOT decorate or ballast the tracks until you have had a good (several years? :-) ) play with it, and are really satisfied that it all works!

It's here! PJ :-)

I don't think a slightly broken r/c plane qualifies! If you really want to know, the cheap Chinese 'weetabix' plywood nosewheel former collapsed, on landing! Weetabix ply - because that is what it breaks like, delaminates and flakes apart.

Sorry, I won't be purchasing TTS, fitted or separate. In a diesel outline they are ok, but in a steam outline, the sounds and the motion don't match up, not even nearly.

'Square wire' = elastic band! AARGH! Doesn't the 'flat' on the led indicate the cathode? edit to change a word, a rubber is something different in America!

It may be an irrelevance, but in the pic showing the underside of the board with the cap on it, there appear to be two fine bridges across to adjacent tracks. It may well be the camera angle, of course, and the bridges are untrimmed 'tails' of the components. Also I'm intrigued by that square--section red wire! I don't recall ever having seen any square wire! In the earlier pic of the top of the boards, the red wire going into j3 connection has a lot of crumpled bare wire before the drilled hole. This may be a dry joint.

They certanly seem to be - very crisp mouldings, and equally crisp lettering. I've not run them yet, but they will fit right in with my theme of - 'a disused coalmine rail yard' - that has been turned into a preserved way, almost in my back yard. (I've mentioned it before, mostly in the 'show us' thread). I have a lot more private owner four-wheelers from Dapol, made in very short runs of 100, for a mining museum near me. The museum is working through all the P.O. wagons they can find from mines in the area, (there were many!) and now and then guesstimating what the colours were - (mostly filthy!) based on ratty old black and white photo's and memory.

Oxford Rail wagon photo's waiting for admin permission.

I never did put those two Oxford Rail wagons on! Putting that right now - /media/tinymce_upload/6f4dee9f51fd8442ca9f67984a27bb8f.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/364a1b9a60fbb5a9a702b1bf63ed45e3.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/8496dd05853df4a99a23592204aab0f4.JPG

The two new releases of four-wheel coal wagons from Oxford. They look very tasty, too. I've not taken them out of the boxes yet, so what they roll like I don't know (see the wheels discussion!) Photo's later, when I get chance.

Nice! As an aside, your 'under construction' layout is messier than mine - it tends to get used as a storage shelf when I'm not using it! If you had painted the boards green before you put the track down, it would give the appearance of grass, until you get a round tuit and use flock, etc.