Model Railways

Wile E. Coyote · Post by **Wile E. Coyote** » 19 Mar 2009 08:41

Nice! How you changed number? Decals or something else?

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 19 Mar 2009 09:22

Nice detailing

Brianetta · Post by **Brianetta** » 19 Mar 2009 10:55

I take it that 153311 was a single cab MU at some point in its past?

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 19 Mar 2009 11:06

Indeed it was a 155, specifically 155311, the other half of said unit became 153361.

andel · Post by **andel** » 23 Mar 2009 17:00

I have a Bachmann 170 in ONE Railway livery sat waiting for me... and this week the DCC chips and lighting kit arrived - hurrah! I'm looking forward to trying it out with day and night lighting as well as red light independent operation.

andel · Post by **andel** » 24 Mar 2009 20:39

Good grief - it's all go here....

I've just been told as a thank you as a favour for a friend, I'm going to be getting a Bachmann Class 37 in Large Logo Blue and a DCC chip for it! Woohoo! So, this will be double heading with Tasha's 37 (an EWS red)...

Next up though - I need to get wagons...

Nawdic · Post by **Nawdic** » 25 Mar 2009 14:52

May i suggest hornby's dogfish wagons??

EDIT: Or... Bachmann mk1's

JamieLei · Post by **JamieLei** » 25 Mar 2009 19:50

You have to admire this man's train set. Although a 323 is an EMU rather than a DMU!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7953966.stm

Benny · Post by **Benny** » 25 Mar 2009 20:20

Security risk.. What the..?
"You can get hit by the train! WATCH OUT!!!"

Archonix · Post by **Archonix** » 26 Mar 2009 00:21

Finally started building. Go me!

Though I had to scale back my plans a little... darn money.

Benny · Post by **Benny** » 26 Mar 2009 00:32

Very cool layout there, and I also found a very cool sentence:

[quote]Ok so they, um... built an extension. Right over the top. Yeah, that'll do it.

[/quote]
Haha!!

Edit: Let's get serious again: Are you going to have one long line along the wall, or more like a horseshoe? Or maybe even a sircle? Looks very interesting anyway.

Archonix · Post by **Archonix** » 26 Mar 2009 12:08

That could be a possibility later. For now it's just that and a fiddle yard, as I don't have the space for much else.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 26 Mar 2009 14:11

world's biggest miniature set ?

VIDEO: http://www.dailymotion.pl/video/x1eohf_ ... rg_extreme

900 trains
12000 wagons
300000 lights
200000 trees
200000 people

Website: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/visit/

Post by **Dave** » 27 Mar 2009 01:02

Archonix wrote:Finally started building. Go me!

Though I had to scale back my plans a little... darn money.

Looking good mate

Archonix · Post by **Archonix** » 27 Mar 2009 21:55

Mostly unrelated to the layout (Except inasmuch as it runs on rails), but:

If you have any idea what these are you'll know how rare and expensive they can be (we're talking several hundred quid on eBay here).

For those that don't know, these are n scale models of the Le Shuttle high speed locomotive used for hauling HGV and passenger road vehicle carrier trains through the channel tunnel. One is motorised, the other not. They are very rare. Very rare. I've been trying to find these things for nearly five years without any luck, until I saw a pair advertised on the manufacturer's website that had apparently been found in a box of junk. When I opened the package this evening my little nerd heart leaped out of my chest. It's a feeling probably shared by the creator of the first ground axe-head, or Einstein when he figured out how to make bubbly beer, or Niehls Bohr when he told Einstein he was old hat...

I'm like a kid in some sort of a store right now. Not even my annoying neighbours are making me feel down.

andel · Post by **andel** » 28 Mar 2009 11:08

Oh wow. I am very jealous

They look fantastic - do they do wagons too or is that a scratch build?

Archonix · Post by **Archonix** » 28 Mar 2009 11:13

There are apparently a number of kits available for the wagons. I'm going to get some as soon as I have the money.

Kevo00 · Post by **Kevo00** » 28 Mar 2009 17:58

Whoa. That reminds me - I wonder what happened to the demonstration Channel Tunnel model railway that was displayed at the Channel Tunnel visitor centre in Folkestone while they were building it. It was N gauge and was a full scale representation of the Cheriton and Frethun terminals with them running in a tube underneath a fishtank inbetween

Railwaymodeler · Post by **Railwaymodeler** » 30 Mar 2009 01:23

I took this picture of three Pre-WWII Walthers freight cars that are on my fleet of mostly vintage equipment.

The flatcar (With the warping deck) is metal and wood. The boxcar is mostly wood, and the caboose is wood with a metal frame and cupola.

Most of my fleet dates to before 1950. I have, for these old Walthers cars, a matching cast lead HH600 switcher unit that I am fixing. It was cosmetically good but mechanically a basket case.

This is what HO scale used to look like.

EDIT: I also added a picture of a Pre-WWII Varney box. Look at the side panel- 'HO Gage- World's Smallest Operating Models'

. It was true in 1937 when that box was made though! (I dated it to 1937 by how they advertised offering 2 locomotives, 1938 and 1939 at least offered 8 locomotives.)

Oh, and sorry for broken table- I didn't think a 800px photo would do that.

Redirect Left · Post by **Redirect Left** » 05 Apr 2009 07:24

I came.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.htm ... page_id=34

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