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Interesting discussion. I ask because the Class 20 sound project I am using for my Hunslet has cab door opening and closing sounds. If the driver stays inside the loco, there's no need to play those when changing ends. Has anyone got a video of the fan spinning up and down under an IRM decoder? My project just starts the fan quite abrubtly. I wonder what an original decoder has it do.

Excellent information. The lighting on a lot of our models tends to flip over instantly when the direction is changed but in reality it would have taken at least the time the driver would have needed to walk to the other cab. Does anyone know if the rad fan was driven mechanically or (also?) electrically? I am assuming it would have been able to stay running or even start running after engine shutdown after a hard run? When changing ends in a Hunslet, did the driver walk through the engine compartment or externally?

Looking at that control panel (thanks for uploading!) and assuming there's a matching panel in the other cab, then the marker lights are set in cab 1 or end 1 and cab 2 for end 2. There is only one switch for each colour. It's presumably possible to have (albeit incorrectly) all the white and red marker lights on on both ends simultaneously. The driver needs to manually check that they have switched the unneeded ones off, as well as switching the needed ones on. It's not a case of "turn on end 1 white lights and end 2 white lights will extinguish". There is no remote control of the marker lights at the other end. The driver needs to walk to the control panel at the other end to set the marker lights at that end. That's what I would assume looking at the control panel pictured. Anyone know any better? Edit: Was the Baby GM running light engine at the open day?

Does anyone know if the radiator fan on the Hunslets ran independently of the prime mover? I would have expected it to be able to run on after the prime mover had switched off to prevent overheating after shutdown. Did the fan operate at varying speeds? How slow did it go? What would the normal order of operations have been for the lights? Driver enters cab, switches on cab lights (assuming it's dark), then the marker lights and then the headlight? If running light engine would the red marker lights come on simultaneously with the white ones or come on a moment later after the white marker lights? When a driver changed ends, did he have to shut down the loco to take his key with him to the other end, or was it possible to change ends without shutting down the prime mover? I'm tinkering with the sound settings on my Loksound at the minute, hence the questions. Appreciate any help

Through trial and error it appears to be AUX12

I am trying to get one of my Hunslets to work with a generic Loksound 5 decoder I have to hand. The accompanying documentation with the Hunslet shows the respective AUX outputs for the various lighting circuits and these are working after some tinkering with the Lokprogrammer. I haven't been able to find which AUX output the radiator fan is connected to however. Does anyone know?

Honestly I would ask for as much as you think you can get for it. If you sell it cheaply to a stranger there's every chance the buyer will just flip it for easy profit. Pick the highest figure you have seen one actually sell for. Indicate that you are open to reasonable offers and you'll get them. Then you can decide. If you go through the eBay threads on here you'll see what 071s are going for. If you know someone personally who wants one and you know the person will keep it and enjoy it, you can obviously choose to do them a favour on the price if you feel like it.

I'm not familiar with the "European" style ESU projects as I have only ever used Loksounds on US diesel prototypes where Full Throttle features are still the default these days as far as I can tell. How do these Full Throttle features differ from the "European" style projects? Drive hold is one finger operation which is what I most like about it. Could you maybe compare the two styles in broad terms for me? Is there more button pressing with the "European" style projects?

Do the sound equipped Hunslets have the full throttle features like drive hold?

Looks like the cab is cracked and held together with selotape so it's not just a clean up it needs. Parts donor I reckon.

Same. I would probably not buy any more twin stripe ones because let's be honest they were not formed into long trains of those at any stage. They were either on short branch line services or in amongst single stripe and or Cravens coaches. I doubt a full train of twin stripe Park Royals ever happened. What year were they actually banned from carrying passengers on the mainline? I would definitely buy more green n grey era ones, ideally the mainline variants. I don't collect anything from the broken wheel era so the single stripe ones aren't for me. They're a really nice coach and quintessentially Irish.

Falcon is a weird livery isn't it? They used the yelow panels like on the 111s of the era but they chose to use the older, more angular NIR logo even though the more rounded logo had already been introduced several years earlier on other rolling stock, including the 111s, right?

Are the green ones all sold out on pre-order?

Wonder what the used value of Falcon will jump to as soon as the last one is sold....

Oh Falcon in the late livery is already nearly sold out.

I love everything about this layout. It is a masterpiece.

Consider it an investment! They'll only appreciate in price

A beautiful loco for a beautiful layout

Yeah of course it has to work with your track. No use to you if it doesn't. Post up some video of the derailments and maybe that will help us identify the issue. Also a "pro tip" from another modeller.... If you have a glass table and some loose track you can video the gubbins from underneath and try to see what's going on. If you notice that it's always the same bogie on a particular coach you could try swapping two of the bogies that don't derail onto one coach and see what happens.

Looks like a brake line. It appears to be out of it's mounting hole in at least one place. Should push back into the chassis, does it? Be a shame to go cutting them if they just need to be secured down.

The bogie touches the coupling but it's impossible to tell from the video if you are already past a second radius curve when it does so. I mean, eventually the bogie has to contact the coupling if the curve is tight enough. A video of the derailment might be more useful. I don't have my coaches yet but I suspect if I flipped one over it would do the same as yours and contact the coupling if I push it over far enough. The "pizza cutter" deep flanges of older stock were able to compensate for rubbish track (I'm not saying your track is rubbish, it might be great) and stop things derailing that really should have derailed but they look awful, so people generally want more prototypical shallower flanges but the flip side is that track has to be laid better. Does it derail at both ends or does it prefer one end? Please post a picture before you go cutting stuff!

Have you got any more to test on the same track or just the one?

Any updates on what specific MK3 vehicles we can expect?

I don't know the legal situation in Ireland but here in Germany if you don't explicity give them the go ahead to drop it off somewhere like behind the bins or in the carport then they are responsible for any theft if it is just dropped off and not handed to the recipient. For this reason I never give them the go ahead to drop it off anywhere when they send that email the day of the delivery.

Were they three separate orders? DPD have done that to me too! Left 3 boxes full of models out on the drive, despite there being a carport they could have at least put them in. Thankfully it stayed dry that day.