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Shssssh! Don't mention longer runs on this site. You'll have a plethora reminding you of the economies of scale, the rising costs in China and that its a minority hobby that you just have to pay up for!

I don't know about these wagons, but I had the misfortune of purchasing some Lima HO coaches on eBay advertised as OO. They're noticeably different, by my calculations maybe 30% change in volume or more depending on how you look at the math. Basically they'd be about 14% smaller in each dimension (cubed)…. but the eye can be deceived in many things…….

I was wondering about that. They're going at a fair clip. I though the frame rate was different for a minute, created the illusion of increased speed like in the early B&W movies

What a shame, the money to invest during the Celtic Tiger and no insight for the (now, missed) opportunity:mad:

Ben, you're on a roll today. Another great clip. Really enjoyed that one. Interesting that, prior to cessation of cattle transport by rail, the cattle were still manually 'enticed' to travel rather than being corralled in to the vans, the doors being at predictable distances from each other. Ahh, the Irish way, yet it still seems to be in use fro humans on Japanese rail system. Superb comment

BK is right, but some of the thread has been devoted to how well the decoder will do this. It seems some sound decoders emulate what is happening with the loco well:trains: whereas others don't respond that quickly to what the locomotive is doing (you don't want the sound of a train at low speed if you have already accelerated halfway down the track, nor the squeal of brakes AFTER you've stopped) Other points raised concern manual notching of the engine (the ability of the operator to ask the sound chip to output the engine at high revs .i.e. high tractive effort, even when it is at low speed, e.g the loco is trying to start moving with a heavy train behind, or conversely is at high speed but you want the sound to diminish as it is coasting down a grade) More esoteric points concern the accuracy of the sounds produced for any particular loco, best listen to the gurus on here who have more finely tuned ears than me:disco:.

Shame about the quality, the technology of the time! Interesting look at life only 50 years ago. Interesting mix of As/steam, freight and coaching stock, some Park Royals and laminates, I think.

Looking forward to it, Noel!

I have a number of these coaches from the Bachmann set and coaches sold separately including a number of duplicate running numbers (one of which was in the wrong box when purchased). I'd like to renumber them and was wondering if anybobody knows where I can get transfers to renumber them (green numbers on the eau de nil band) Thanks in advance

Always interested in cheaper when you get a chance to post:tumbsup:

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Yup. Dave got in there before me. If you have space for a loop in the layout or a helix, that will keep your gradient lower. Alternatively, If you can drop the thing you wish to climb over, you can effectively half the gradient/length you need to climb (one climbs 2 inches, one drops two inches= 4 inches clearance)

Just remember you need to pay postage from the US plus import duty when it arrives. The transformer is probably 110V. The others on eBay are ridiculously priced however which is why they haven't sold. They've been up there for months. EDIT: Just had a chance to read this. If any of you want to bid on this, the quoted post if for US GROUND. You will need Intl. AIRMAIL which is more expensive FROM the USA then in the reverse direction. This is an outsize item, so to avoid coronary occlusion you should get a shipping qoute from the seller BEFORE you bid, not after as suggested by the seller!!

Thanks, Dave! Good tips

I guess I was thinking of the preformed foam that fits between the sleepers, so do you use just a sheet of foam that is cut to width and do you taper off the edges eventually wide of the ballast? and how do you taper that edge, and what foam would you recommend? Questions, questions.....

this is an interesting topic that has come up before,. My vested interest is that I am trying to design a layout and will inevitably have to ballast it. Foam insulates well against sound but I think that someone stated (probably on a previous thread) that this sound-proofing effect is lost once the PVA glue on the ballast dries and establishes a rigid layer that transmits the sound back to the baseboard (now, I don't know if anyone has stuck an audiometer on there and measured the noise in decibels so it probably worse to some extent but maybe not as good as before ballasting)

Interesting thread, Glenderg. I knew there were TPO's but have never really seen many pictures of them. Not sure that the model on eBay looks much like this, sprayed green with the flying snail stuck instead of a P&T. Seems like the catchers were not a big feature on the Irish TPOs. I wonder if they stop took most of the main stations to let passengers on and off and collected that way instead of by catcher on an express, even though I know would've been all sorted en route. I wonder if anyone on the site has modeled some more authentic versions of the Irish TPOs?

Did this ever actually run in Ireland or even up north?:confused:I thought this was a UK only coach?

Cosmetic defect will not affect the chassis you need on this one http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Bachmann-32-525A-Class-55-Deltic-The-Kings-Own-Yorkshire-Light-Infantry-/390965704761?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item5b075f3839

I doubt they'd maintain the line for just one train…… there reason it's shut is they don't want to run anything else on it, if you se my point. :SORRY:Shattered dream, I know

That's a shame. The 'French method' seems better

Too small scale, methinks. If you wanted to do that on a railway, the tonnage/speed of the train would be weaponized in a critical area to create more havoc and loss of adjacent trains, buildings, infrastructure. We've already seen attacks of the Spanish and Japanese rail networks. Individuals have routinely thrown bricks and other objects at trains from elevated positions such as the Glanmire tunnel approaching Kent station and even tied a poor donkey to the rails at one point. Incapacitating the driver of a train approaching a station could have profound consequences although I presume the locomotive still has some form of 'dead man's handle' (pardon the expression)

If you do a conversion on the chassis could you post some pics of the steps, please?

Great series of photos, John. Lovely station building. Great to see these for modeling and even to select preassembled 'look-alikes' for the rest of us!

Think Noel is not into 201s but that's good to know as I also have a rake of 141/181s that will need to be done and I intend to do some consists:)