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This is my guilty secret and I can't bear to part with it. Alongside my Roco Pacifics, Athearn EMDs and Electrotren ALCos, there will remain a place for my 'Nellie' and favourite childhood loco. It still runs but could benefit from a good service, still, I doubt it will ever get chipped.

Kadee #17, 18, 19 and 20 are only in 4pks on the Kadee website. A selection of other couplers - for NMRA boxes - are available in 10s, 20s, and 50s. You could ask a retailer if they are prepared to do a bulk discount for you?

The problem is there is very little savings to be made in producing an unpowered loco. It would need directional lights and producing alternative PCBs would be pointless. This used to be fairly common in the US modelling scene but a quick glance in the Athearn website and they don't appear to be doing unpowered models any more. I have bought both unpowered and unpainted models from Athearn in the past but that also seems to have gone. If using DCC, then multi loco control shouldn't be an issue. If using DC, than wait until something breaks, remove the motor and tow it along!

@bill7437 I don't know if the sound is inaccurate - just that others have moaned about it and you know how model railway forum members, whatever country, like to moan about things they seem to think they are experts on. I couldn't care less as it sounds like a small diesel locomotive and has a decent horn. Once I get round to upgrading my DCC system I'll really be able to explore what features the model has to offer. I am very happy with it so far. As to the price, about €30 less than Roco's similar size OBB 2062. Still, it's a lot of money but my choice. I'm just awaiting the KLV53 now. It will be straight DCC.

Just received my preordered 309 and in only 15 months since it was announced so I am really happy! This is a RENFE 3 axle shunter and the model is lovely. It is fitted with a Loksound 5 and sounds great - there have been moans on the Spanish forum 'Forotrenes' that the sound file is wrong and taken from the Rivarossi FS D.245 but as I'm unlikely to ever hear either of them it sounds fine to me! It has a fair weight to it and has been trundling round my test track with eight Roco Habfis bogie wagons this morning with no issues. LEDs and are subtle and not too bright and handrails are a work of art but could be susceptible to damage if the model is not handled carefully. Its not cheap though. This was almost an identical price to the Steam & Sound fitted Black 5 in OO so I would probably be just as happy with a TXS decoder and no gimmicky illuminated instrument panel. I have noticed with this loco and a few of the other sound fitted ones I have, most noticeably my Trix Scotsman, that I cannot access all the functions using my Multimaus connected through Roco's 2002 10761 digital amplifier. Instead of another loco, I really need to upgrade my control system. With my system I cannot operate the rear lights or illuminated control panel on the 309 along with most of the user instigated sounds, but I'm sure they are there! I really must lay some track!

Are you on FB? If so join the Scottish Railways past and present group and post the question there.

The problem is making the smoke black. I've a 66 with smoke but its too clean by far.

Ideal for leaving around come birthday or Christmas so you don't get any more socks. 😎 Still, I find ordering my own presents if the way forward.

Good to see that they have integrated the Arnold container flats into the UK range. There must be plenty more wagons for the future that could satisfy both markets. Maybe time to drop the '120' and just go for 'Hornby TT International' and use one branding for all models in this scale produced by Hornby Hobbies.

I can't believe I'm getting ready to watch this! I've no TT or interest in getting any but there is so much enthusiasm out there I feel I should join in just to see what its all about. I don't really remember this much fuss previously since I started following forums and FB. Odd thing is though, had UK outline TT been available 35 years ago I would have been straight there. Once I knew that OO and British N were wrong I went to European and then US HO, and have now returned with limited activity in British HO. Hope you guys all get what you want, and maybe there will be a chassis can use for an HOm Spanish industrial! 😎

Other than one Italian loco with HM7000, all the rest of the current Hornby Int'l releases have Loksound 5 decoders. Who knows why!

Hi XYZ, The model is a DB 218 decorated as a fictional Dutch loco. These have been in Roco's starter sets for years and have appeared in various liveries depending on the intended market. I have the DB red version that came with my 2003 digital start set with Lokmaus 2. Many of us would have been introduced to DCC with this loco. The Spanish version as a fictional Class 320 looks really smart.

ESU could have released UK sound files years ago if Hornby had allowed them to list the files created for the Hornby Loksound equipped locos. Perhaps its no surprise that South West Digital - ESU's UK distributer has allowed their files - both V5 and V4 to be made available via the ESU website. Maybe the thinking is that this will drive sales of the Loksound units in the face of the 'apparently' well received HM7000 decoders. Hornby are still using Loksound units in their International models so with open lines of communication to ESU there is no reason why agreements could not be reached. I for one would prefer if Hornby first put some effort into re-blowing the Loksound files created for Hornby Int'l models and made these available as HM7000 downloads. At present there are a large number of Hornby Int'l files for ESU decoders that are not available as downloads via the ESU site or as HM7000 files. Since the announcement of the HM7000 there are a number of Int'l locos that have been released with Loksound files that must have been in production around the same period as HM7000 files.

Just for you @Rana Temporia https://www.forotrenes.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=92507 The second entry in this thread from Spanish Forum Forotrenes has a .pdf attachment with the 1979/80 Lima Spanish catalogue. The usual Renfritos of mixed accuracy, but what is even more disturbing is the N gauge Class 31 masquerading as a Spanish ALCo. I suppose that means Hornby could have inherited the tooling and are preparing to take the N scale world by storm! 😆

Wayne. The Network Traveller is not a DCC set. Did you mistype DC above? If so, it means the guys answers above have gone off on a tangent! If it is indeed an unmodified R1279 Network Traveller set you have, then the Lima loco should run. The basic controller that comes with the starter set doesn't have much grunt and if the Lima loco is old and unserviced may be having problems because it may require more power than is available.

When I go to: +create - gallery image - members albums - use an existing album, all I get is your General Stuff album. or +create - gallery image - Hornby - use an existing album, all I get is a Cranes and coaches album. When viewing pictures on my profile I can click on one of my pictures and then see all the albums but the only thing I appear able to do with image tools is select a profile picture.

I have been looking at this tread and then trying to edit my images. I can't even find the album to go back at edit it. I can only seem to find images in 'My Profile' and can't seem to edit any. Can I go back and create and album to put mine in? Can I delete them and start again?

Alan, Are you running OO models? If so check the radius of any curves you bid on. I don't now about Fleischmann, but Roco R2 work are slightly tighter than Hornby R1. Roco R3 is about the same as Hornby R2 so probably a minimum for reasonable sized OO models. Roco R3 would be better. Continental track geometry is tighter.

Any Lima track after 2004 would be Hornby track and as far as I know any more recent Fleischmann track would be Roco, who coincidently used to produce track for Hornby. I have Hornby, Fleischmann, Roco, Mehano, Athearn, Trix, Atlas, Mabar, Bachmann and other models running on Hornby, Roco and Peco track with no issues so you should be fine as you have modern stock and code 100 rails. Its not something I have ever worried about when buying stock from different manufacturers.

@Moccasin Thanks for that. The Electrotren wagon I was thinking I 'needed' more of had a stock level of 2 and as it's double rewards week, they are now both on their way to me. Happy Days! 😎

@Moccasin & @HST Mainline How do you determine the remaining stock levels?

There is an episode of 'Sam's Trains' where he runs a OO model underwater and doesn't seem to have many issues other than the wagons wanting to float.

Looks so good but sounds so wrong..........................watching successfully on Win8 and Chrome. 👍

Hi Alan, Are you usingthe Z21 with the app or Multimaus? I use the Multimaus with plenty of Hornby's Electrotren models with no issues. As RAF suggests, let us know what you need.

@GMD I waited for the vintage bus at George Sq - the advertised 11:40 on Friday - to go to the SECC. I was there at 11:30 and at 12:00 the four of us now waiting gave up and jumped on the #100 service bus, which was also free. One of the guys I met at the bus stop said it never ran last year either. On the way back I didn't even bother looking for the bus and just went straight to take the low level back to Central and walked to Queen St. Still a pretty good day out.