Model Railway Forum

Like most modellers over the years I've bought too many loco's and rolling stock. I've found that running items the wrong livery or even items that clash in age is just not quite right. By running stock in an era it sort of solves the problem. I know its my railway and I can do what I like but in th...

Thanks for that Coach ends come off easily tried the rest you suggested but it didn’t work with every chance to break them. Taking the ends off didn’t achieve much. The roof seems to be part of the windows section. I’m not sure how often I would need to change the battery and potentially break somet...

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Thanks Roger

I’m thinking of putting lights in some Lima mk3 coaches
I can normally undo coaches no problem but these seem very complicated and I don’t want to break them. Any ideas?
I’ve managed to take off the end clips but the chassis doesn’t budge
Thanks in advance

Thanks for that confirmation Chris. There’s quite a bit of space in the driving ends so I will probably go for the lais dc to power the motor and the tts at each end for sound. I’ve just received the newly released lais decoder tester so I’ll probably set it up on there first. For anyone else readin...

Hi Chris Thanks for the reply. If I understand correctly I put the bulb straight across the in out of the controller? As to the TTS for the double Ended blue Pullman I bought the twin pack MTU sound for the class 43 and have one end power and sound and the other end just sound. It’s actually not bad...

Thanks for that Brian typical readings are around 1/2 amp at full pelt and between.8 and oddly a few at 1.03 on stall My previous experience is to ignore the high ones and use the lower stall ones. My most recent job was to put a hornby MTU TTS in my youngest Blue Pullman The revised moulding versio...

I have successfully converted old Triang and Lima locomotives to dcc with limited success and to date most run well. When I started I tried to check the stall amps of the motors. I’d like to do more now and saw a volt ammeter display for sale on eBay and Bangood after some difficulty set it up and w...