2e0dtoeric

Thanks, SoT, but this one was in 'Well played with' condition, with a splodge of orange paint underneath, and the paint - if there was any - of the numbers worn off, just leaving the embossing. The roof falls off every five minutes! It still has the clear plastic U-shaped sheet window glazing, with a smear of white for the toilets!

Odd - I'm certain I saw a post from Grassie, re my 'Southern' coach, saying it was R22, and cost 8s and something, but when I logged on to acknowledge, the post vanished!

stops on all points - - just like a well-known heritage steam loco! :-)

I got carried away and splashed out 20p on a really old Triang green 'Southern' coach. It is totally inappropriate for my layout, but it looks ideal for converting into an Engineer's coach, with a hardboard skid under it for polishing the track. It is so old it has the 'J' style tension locks, and plastic (yuk) 9mm wheels split in two halves running on a steel axle. I was intending to replace them with metal ones, but they aren't pin-points, just jam-fit metal rods running in holes in the rivetted bogey. I can't see an 'R' number, but it has running number S17035, and underneath it has Tri - ang - and Made in England. Maybe SOT can date it? Not that it matters!

One 72xx 2 - 8 - 2 - tank engine, BR logo. I thought I'd ordered a DCC fitted, but I've got a DCC ready. Not to worry. It's only been on order since April LAST year, when it was advertized!

The second Ffestiniog 009 truck, to go with the first, on the (fake) Llanfair lwb open truck. (yes, I know!) :-)

British Legion (snipped) would sound like a tin can - - come on Fazy, put your silly head on for a minute, a Brit Legion collecting tin!

the British Legion would be better. - - but not Sound fitted! It would sound like a tin can of washers being shaken! :-)

Geoff77 has made the same mistake as many others! Do NOT click on the BLUE reply button - scroll down a bit to the empty white box below, type your words in there, and click the GREEN reply button. This way, your words are in a new area, and you don't keep repeating the words you are replying to, making the threads longer and longer, and difficult to follow!

You might get more of a response by starting a new thread with your question, and use a proper title for it, rather than hanging it onto the end of something totally unconnected, that people might not look at.

Try Sankey Scenics.

WTD put - It's not unusual for a train to run round for 30 minutes and then a wagon will suddenly fall over. - - Usually after you have been practising for that 'this is my railway' video and got everything working perfectly - then you point a camera at it!! Crunch!

A Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway box van in 009 narrow gauge, made by that Devon company in a very limited run. It comes with a nice moulded bit of plastic track, which with a bit of decorating, will drop nicely into the Llanfair.P.G. 00 three plank wagon as a load!

Yahoo Dead Rail e-group - - didn't know of them! I'll have a look.

Yes - silly me was thinking of controller output and aircraft motor voltages, not receiver voltages, which are 4.5v dc! (up to 6v depending on brand). So a 2s would probably be more than enough! And just occurred - if I use my DCC programming track connected to the lipo charger (careful of polarity!!) I can charge the lipo whilst in the container, assuming it has electrified wheel pick-ups!

They obviously never learned to count after the Romans invaded them! (Mind you - we don't have a mille yards to the mile, either!)

Odd you should mention that, as I was toying with the same idea of a garden railway, Initially an old tender-drive loco, ex the junk channel, in case it didn't work out. One of the Micron receivers with forward and reverse function, and a lipo somewhere. It would save all the hassle of cleaning the track before a running session, just a quick whiz round to remove dead leaves, twigs, and stray cats! It would need to be a bit bigger a lipo than the tiny ones used in indoor r/c models though - typically 1S (3.7v) 70mah. That wouldn't last long in an OO loco! It would need to be a 3S (11.4v discharged) 1000mah, for a decent run-time. For that lipo, you want an internal space of around 10 x 3 x 2.5 cm, with a bit of extra room for wires. Then you want a proper lipo charger. (I already have those!) because you cannot charge a lipo on a car battery charger! Bear in mind safety as well. NEVER EVER charge a lipo inside! Never charge at more than 1C (one times it's capacity - in this particular example 1000 mah - (or one amp).) although they can be charged faster, at the expense of reducing the cyclic life. As an aside, I never did understand why there are a thousand milliamps in an amp, and not a million - same as millimetres - there aren't a million millimetres to a metre!

For the time being, my imaginary passengers have to water imaginary bushes if they need a 'comfort break', as I haven't got the toilets installed yet!

Noddie - two controllers on one analogue track - that's a big NO. You would just have a short-circuit between the two. What you could do, if you have a complex sidings arrangement, is to have insulated rail joiners just after the point leading into the sidings, then one controller could run the circuit, and the other would work the siding.

Found a rough sketch of my track-plan. (You can see I'm no graphic artist!) http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee160/2e0dtoEric/newtrack-plan_zpse7c98d9b.jpg

I'm not sure about these 'centre-tapped' sidings. It seems a terrible waste of space, as half of each cannot be occupied, or the stock in the other end cannot be extracted without a lot of messing about and swapping things around - or is that what you want, a shunting puzzle with a continuous run round the outside? And as stated, for this complex a layout, a bus is a must!

No 'Domestic Goddess' to say you can't put that there! P:J. She passed on three and a bit years ago, so I've got two walls of the bedroom, with a cantilevered overhang on the 'spare' side of the double bed! The idea is - there is a 'preserved' line (the outside loop) connected to a branch line (inner), so I can run anything I fancy anywhere, without caring whether it is 'genuine!' The 'preserved' line is based in/on the old shunting yard of a coal mine, hence the flat-top buildings. You can't really see it on the pic, but there is a link across from one circuit to the other, so 'visiting tours' can be reversed or driven onto the preserved line (and exit the other way) For more variety. The overscale yellow heli is a charity toy from the NorthWest Air Ambulance. The pile of boxes at the back (looking left) are all short-runs of coal wagons, obtained from a local to me mining museum, one guy of the staff searches old documents and photo's looking for private owner liveries of mines in this area, and has them made up by that Welsh company.

I've posted pics of mine on here before, in a different thread. Not much to look at, yet, just track on bare boards, with some structures scattered, whicle I make sure it looks right. (It doesn't) and it all works (so far it does). I was intending to re-post them, but it looks as though I'll have to re-take them first, as the originals have quietly vanished into the computer black hole! Found them on photobucket - http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee160/2e0dtoEric/railwayleft2014_zps2a2c7c7b.jpg http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee160/2e0dtoEric/railwayright2014_zps284c9a36.jpg if that works.

I know Sevenoaks is in Kent, but what's the connection with the question?

Os ydym yn mynd i fod yn wirioneddol wirion, 'n annhymerus' pig y Gymraeg ar chi! (Nid fy mod yn ei siarad - ond rwy'n gweithio arno!)