The Train Now Departing.....................

[Colin R]

Well, a bang on the door from a new postie, and they had arrived: my four Green Park Royals  . Well, I will wait to see what you guys make of them, but they look like the DBs to me. Well done to Fran and the Boys. Now about that proposed layout

[Horsetan]

37 minutes ago, Colin R said:

...Now about that proposed layout

...there's going to have to be an attempt at an Irish FREMO network one day.

[Mol_PMB]

5 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

...there's going to have to be an attempt at an Irish FREMO network one day.

We'll need some complex gauge-changing stations between your 21mm / P4 module, my 21mm / EM module, and everyone else's 16.5mm / OO module...

Oh, not forgetting Darius's Indian Interlude!

[Horsetan]

36 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

We'll need some complex gauge-changing stations between your 21mm / P4 module, my 21mm / EM module, and everyone else's 16.5mm / OO module...

Oh, not forgetting Darius's Indian Interlude!

There's Irish solutions for Irish problems...

[Mol_PMB]

3 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

There's Irish solutions for Irish problems...

[Horsetan]

2 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

Anyhow I don't see your EM check clearances as necessarily a problem. My back-to-backs and flange profile should allow my stock to negotiate your points without falling off, but your EM profile wheels won't be getting through my P4 check clearances....

[Mol_PMB]

1 minute ago, Horsetan said:

Anyhow I don't see your EM check clearances as necessarily a problem. My back-to-backs and flange profile should allow my stock to negotiate your points without falling off, but your EM profile wheels won't be getting through my P4 check clearances....

You're giving me ideas about a working model rail grinder. A couple of Dremel discs and some high speed motors mounted on a wagon would soon sort out your flangeways...

[Broithe]

52 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

You're giving me ideas about a working model rail grinder. A couple of Dremel discs and some high speed motors mounted on a wagon would soon sort out your flangeways...

A Dapol rail cleaner might be cannibalised?

https://www.dapol.co.uk/products/b800-oo-ho-gauge-dapol-motorised-track-cleaner?variant=43341336248543

It works far better on a DCC system, as you need decent power to run the cleaner/grinder, but have it propelled fairly slowly by a loco - not easy to get a good compromise on DC.

[Horsetan]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

You're giving me ideas about a working model rail grinder. A couple of Dremel discs and some high speed motors mounted on a wagon would soon sort out your flangeways...

Good luck with that, so