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I recently purchased these 3 coaches by Poacher. Two are identically numbered, and the other (middle) is a mail carrier. Mostly ready to run, but I do want to renumber them, and also change the couplings to something NEM compatible... possibly knuckle style. https://i.postimg.cc/SJhcT87z/poachers.jpg

An amazing start! well done!

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I’d thought about hinging the section but I’ve made it impossible as one section; the upper tracks incline from left to right, lower tracks incline right to left, each pair of tracks would have to be hinged independently and as far as I can work out on opposite sides. At the moment it’s in the too ...

Correct.

While I understand the benefits of DCC, at this time I don't feel these outweigh the disadvantages it would present for me.

Other than Hornby and their UK 'railroad' range.... lol

I'm hoping that most of us that use YouTube know of BCR, and the amazing modelling presented on that channel. I've noticed that the amount of content was falling off quite sharply, and I was beginning to wonder why.... Rather randomly saw a link to the channels welcome page, which, after some readin...

If you still have the disk, and wanted a second opinion, I'd happily take a crack at it for you.

Your new backup solution seems very sensible. An SSD that is unpowered will theoretically last as long as the plastics etc, can survive bio-degradation.

Carl, did you harvest the seeds?

SSD's are not normally used for long term bulk backups , particularly if they are left connected to the machine. The storage 'cells' in an SSD have a read&write lifespan, and once they fail, thats that, that cell is unusable. an SSD connected to a machine will read & write to the storage on ...

just to clarify, Have Rapido bought the business from SWD? They aren't someone who i've heard of before.