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Might be something in the Tillig HO range - its code 83 but a strange rail section which makes it actually almost code 100 in height rather than having the more noticeable step that other code 83 rails have. Those are somehat fragile and need careful handling and also needs a stall point motor as a ...

Aussie 3 railer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 9:10 pm Thanks Mike. Wonder what the reasoning was behind doing that. Maybe the Royal Scott is more collectable. Gone to a lot of trouble though doing the run change and the name plate.

Dirk

Quiet common, people want a specific loco that is not actually produced.

Couple of photos seem to have got lost in cyber space. Now its been suggested and I have looked really close you can see the three has been added at a later date maybe. What would be the reasoning for that. Its a 6112 Sherwood Forester that has been renumbered and renamed. Bachmann catalogue no 31-...

However the rear is going wherever it want to and confuses the linkage. Common faiure of Kader produced split chassis locos which has given the desigh a bad reputation despite having been used successfully by other manuafactures. The Triang-Hornby Rocket being one. Peters Spares sell replacment axl...

Think its been renamed/numbered as no listing gives Bachmann as producing that precise loco
presumably the chassis looks like this https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ ... 411078622s

My local Homebase went downhill when the Aussies took over. Half the internal store lights were switched off. Since the Aussies left the lights have all been switched on but all that does is show how tatty the store look. Understand it will become The Range but hopefully there will be major refurb f...

My former exhibiion layout suffered a point motor failure during one show. To the astonishment of some other layouts operators instead of abandoning services I worked around it. It was one simple enough as it was one of the station loco release points so to uncoupled the arriving loco and uses anoth...

One thing to watch on Peco dead "isulfrogs" IME is that the frog part can over time lift akin to a bookshelf bowing.

Of if in doubt use Streamline Code 100. My ex exhibition layout uses that and with the track and rail painted plus the normal 2-3ft distant viewing distance some viewers thought it was Code 75.

I'm thinking of rewiring mine using a TCS 1410 4 pole connector to overcome the soldered wires and fitting a NEM18 decoder socket in the water tank. The one snag is the wires from the loco side of the connector are going to have to be very carefully cut to length as there is little space to store ex...