Jeff Mennell

Hi all, been a while since I have posted! I've been trying to find out if the Freightliner Heavy Haul HXA coal trucks are still being used or have they all been scrapped? Manta thanks

Interesting project. Can you estimate how much of the scrap loco will be repaired/used rather than being replace?

Ok, LC, ta

Ok thanks

I have an old R915 controller which works just fine but the knurled contact nuts have gone missing! I have no idea where I can get (brass?), replacements??

Apologies if someone else has already mentioned this, (as I don't have the time to read all the post replies), but Diesel Trains also do conversion kits. I think these are for old Limas but the info might be of use. https://diesel-trains.co.uk/test-category/test-product.html

WTD, wherever I have worked I have had enough interest in the organisation/industry to read about it IN MY SPARE TIME. Maybe they could employ people who actually have an interest in their own products?

Now, if I worked for a company like Hornby I would be curious enough to visit the company forum just for a nosy and maybe take some notes. So presumably nobody in the company has the slightest interest in how their products are perceived to do this one simple thing?

A close friend expressed the wish to buy me a nice loco for my birthday. My response was 'don't buy a new one cos you cannot get spares'. Hornby will know about the situation but presumably don't give a flying fig.

Well I guess that sheds some light on it. They actually look quite detailed. But the crazy themes they have used to paint them are er.....quirky. I would have one just for a laugh

Just come across the Hawthorne Village 'Elvis' train set for sale on a website. Has anybody ever heard of this before. May be manufactured by Bachman?

Lima HST, lightly weathered including the dummy engine, £10 from car boot sale. Runs very well.

Just filed mine down with a hand file. Took a wee while but the wheels are made out of relatively soft metal so it was no big deal. Having said that, I intend to buy some old track for the older engines in my collection...

A shame really, considering the detail...

The J72 looks as though it would fit the xo4 powered front drive Jinty? I'm sure somebody will have done it but I can't find any info...maybe Sara Again?