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It would definitely be the mother of all Sundays if one found a Black Western and a Maroon Hymek stabled at Portencross, silently awaiting their next call of duty

I can almost smell the smoke from the decoder……..Alternatively you could always regularly clean the track, wheels and pick-ups…….. and avoid the sorcery and risk involved in wiring stay alives to some decoders……… this is written with the benefit of painful and expensive experience !

Hi Folks, Been a long while since I last posted anything, although I do check in every few days ( mainly to see what Steve, Barry or Carl are up to next !)…….. the truth is that having completed the major build elements of my layout, I rather quickly became frustrated when running trains as there wa...

Wishing you a speedy recovery and resumption of normal services on your layout.

Very nice job as always Steve - great to see you back at it ! I have been in Gloucestershire for the past 4 weeks on new grandparent duties and have probably another two weeks to go before I head back north of the border…….have missed my trains and itching to make a start on something to carry me th...

I look in a couple of times a week but layout in limbo as I clear the remainder of the garage to create space to increase the layout by about 1/3rd and fit a helix to the lower fiddle yard……..unlikely to start this year, especially as first Grandson born a fortnight ago and now down in Gloucestershi...

Carl,

Try sprinkling very finely filtered and oven dried soil from the garden….it is great for dulling down surfaces - spray surface with hair spray to hold in place - try L’Oréal……it will be worth it !

Do you mean I have been checking each day for the last 10 days and it was all for a flipping vacuum cleaner…….. I had convinced myself that you had seen the light and bought a “Western” - LOL

Hi Steve - Sorry to hear you are pulling the plug on your commercial services as I have certainly benefitted several times over from your skills and you have created some unique locos for my fleet I am sure that your efforts would still be better than mine if you held the paint brush between your to...

Very much looking forward to seeing the Model Railway Forum’s equivalent of Jack Reacher in 00 gauge