Dave

Happy birthday Garfield

I'm interested, where are you based?

Happy New Year Guys, may you all have good health and happiness in 2013

Try You Tube, should be some how to videos there

No worries, soldering is very easy. Maybe someone could do a how to video? I would except I'm away from home for a week.

Great photos

Stunning

Looks the dogs Anto:tumbsup:

Fanbleedingtastic!!!!! Wow, they look amazing. Cheers man. I can't wait to get my hands on them. Great work Anto

Oh to be in my twenties again:(( Happy birthday Fran

There are some good books on DCC , the beauty about DCC is the entire layout is powered without having to isolate sections. Fitting a DCC chip in each loco gives individual control all at the same time, you can also control points too.

Try this website http://www.wiringfordcc.com/intro2dcc.htm

Dave, will you let Sean know I won't be there. I tried to call him and left a message. Have a bad flu.

0.3 should be fine for that. The smallest I have seen is 0.2mm

The closing date is getting close, anyone who hasn't entered get your entries in. Closing date is the 31st

Happy birthday! Great cake, a very thoughtful gift.

Thats a great idea, I'm in the girlfriends house all Christmas and I miss my layout. I bought her son a train set and I built a simple baseboard, I keep hogging it!

I would suggest not using any power clips and running 2 bus wires around the layout and connecting these to the track via dropper wires. Always solder your wires to the track as this will give you the best contact never use clips as they can become unreliable and give you bad contact. Take a look at Boskonay's layout build as he has good photos and explains how to wire up the layout.

I have to agree, DCC needs good connections to work properly. Soldering each joint is the only way to go.

Great shots there Richie

I love your layout, you have some amount of stock.

I must take some pics later and ping them of to you bud. PM me your email address

Done!

That's a great find and I have saved it in my bookmarks. Some brilliant shots, my favourite period in Irish Rail

I got an 082, Anthony has made it look 30 years old!

Good to see you back Anthony

The 112 looks great with the mk 3's

I have the Dynamis system, I had the same problem on a class 45, turned out to be a bad connection in the cab light.