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Many thanks for your entry on double-heading. Sorry to be slow. We've got a bit off topic, haven't we, MG? Don't get me wrong; I'm not insisting on having the last word; I'd just like to point out that on a model railway a failed loco will not simply freewheel if its motor isn't driving it (worm gea...

Thank you, gentlemen, for your recent comments. I fought shy of adding more pickups coz the "live wheelbase" of the loco seemed to be long enough. Not being much good at such work, I was glad when she got through the double slips and diamonds in the northern station throat without hesitati...

That's a collection of very dez rezzes, Ian. Nice one! Houses like those first two (Faller products, I'd say) were the subject of a great deal of controversy in Germany in the (what?) 1980s? The magazines, led, if I remember rrightly, by "Eisenbahn-Magazin ", took the kit manufacturers to ...

Thank you again for your feedback, MG. Sorry to be slow here. I hope you had a pleasant Christmas and have a cork ready to pop for New Year. Re close couplers: I hear you. A lot of the trouble, in Europe at least, is that the kinematic mechanisms are sloppily mounted. A bit more sense of precision w...

Thank you for your feedback, MG. I must admit my track is not up to the best standards; the station first went into operation in the late 1980s (it's still on the original boards) and sometimes the trains have a bumpy ride. Other vehicles have also gone the wrong way on the diamonds and double slips...

Good morining, gentlemen, hoping I find everyone in good health. My apologies for the endless radio silence - some people may even be pleased. ;o) ;o) On a recent visit to the UK I treated myself to a Hornby Stephenson's Rocket, plus goods wagons. The chappie in the shop said the loco would have tro...

Good afternoon, gentlemen, after a long radio silence, mainly because there's been virtually nothing to report, I thought you might find this project interesting. I hope so, at any rate. The objective was to let my JEP 232S run on the layout. There was an abortive project for a centre 3rd rail that ...

Welcome to the Forum, DaleKB. I hope you enjoy it here. Not been online much myself lately but don't let that fool you. I love the MRF and I'm sure you will as well.
Cheers,
Artur

In addition to the extra pickups, the tender needed a new power bogie chassis, because the gear train was jammed, and the loco needed a new front pony truck, because the wheels of the original one were decidedly out of true and rejoiced in derailing on every point frog (except when I watched it, of ...

Oh, yes, nice one, Gareth! I often find it a pity that real-life British engineers hardly ever managed to kick over the traces with something like this. What was there? GWR 72XX, a couple of LNWR jobbies (0-8-2T and 0-8-4T), Gresley's non-realised 2-8-2T, scraping the barrel already. And all those y...