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HD, It’s a Bachmann, a very quiet a smooth runner, I picked it up for under three figures, a bargain. Even though I was brought up in the blue era, and only ever saw a handful of green locos, I’m with you on the green/maroon era, it just seem to suit better. Whilst Neptune Street is suggestive of th...

At the weekend, having taken the Project Manager out for a spot of lunch, I couldn’t resist making this purchase, DCC fitted and lightly weathered, at a snip. I just love green diesels.



Just need to fit the buffer beam clutter.

Slow progress on Neptune Street, attention diverted to things like stay alive capacitors and real coal tender loads, but making a bit of progress on how the entrance to the shed is going to work out. https://i.postimg.cc/QBPYdTZC/IMG-1541.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/GB9SRjN6/IMG-1543.jpg Need to make s...

72 locos

Great muddy puddle.

Thank you all, despite all the wonderful sorcery i might be favouring the clean track, wheels and pick ups.

Welcome Carl,

And well rescued, nothing model railway wise deserves the skip.

It’s a great forum with plenty of knowledge on tap. Enjoy your new hobby.

Complete and utter sorcery.

Apologies for this as this will seem like ‘electrics for dummies’ so, ‘with a multimeter switched to its DC voltage range of 20v or greater and see which of the two wires is the Positive’, I take it I apply the multimeter probes to the green and purple wires, (do I?) how will it indicate which is th...

Witchcraft, totally agree, it bamboozles me at times. So, one naked decoder. https://i.postimg.cc/3dPzD6Mq/IMG-1453.jpg You know when a job is telling you to leave it - taking the A2 body off I managed to dislodge a smoke deflector hand rail and lose a knob. Black on a black floor, I think that’s go...