Model Forum / General / Railroads / June 2006

Not something you see every day . . .
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Tomsalvè
This months Aeroplane holds an interesting pic of an H.P. Hampden taking off with a Beyer Garrat puffing away in the background, can anyone identify the first wagon?.
Beowulf

Hi again all
I have just been musing about the concept pf the Royal Train and am
wondering if  anyone has available further info on 19th and early 20th
century trains that were decked out to take royalty around. The questions I

Is there a way to make the Compact default to 128 speed steps at power-up
rather than 28? I find it rather a chore to have to set each loco
individually every time I start the system!
ROB

Does anyone know if Peco sell the extension pins for their point motors
separately? I couldn't find any listed anywhere.
I have 5 old motors I'd like to re-use but the use of a camping mat as
underlay means the pins don't reach :-(

WE are considering use of double sided foam tape to be used on a foam
baseboard for the track underlay instead of cork.
Has anyone any experience of this method and does anyone know of a supplier?
Have tried it on a small length of track (75mm) and after ballasting it

IS there any advantages to hand laying track and how is it done?
-john C

Hi I need to findout out what metal are used in the Life Like Proto 2000
wheel sets
Any help would be appreciated.
Anthony

In terms of fractions of an inch per foot, what is a realistic grade
for N-Scale locomotives to be able to pull from one level to another
on a SMALL layout.  One that sort of looks realistic, not true to
scale.

Well, I got to go flying today after about a month. Did pretty good.
We flew to Lafayette, then  to Eunice, and back to base practicing some
instrument procedures. It took about 1.5 hours. We went in the morning and
got back about noon. On the way home I got a call for an oil ...

I have just disassembled a Bachmann J39 to fit a DCC decoder, it used to run
fine before, but now it seems to have acquired a tight spot in the
revolution of the wheels. I'm not entirely sure how this could have
happened, I certainly haven't been fiddling with the wheelsets. I ...

I have a diesel shunter from the 80's / 90's that has lain idle for a
long time. When I came to get it working it didn't.
It is powered by one of the small motors with non-replaceable brushes
held in a wiring harness.

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I am trying to add a TMCC engine to my DCS setup. The setup requests
the TMCC address of the engine. How do I figure out what that address
is?
So far, I've tried using 1, 2 and 99 with no luck. The engine just sits

Is this available in Oz?
See here for a description
http://www.ndrr.com/rmr_faq/Models/Future-Floor-Wax.htm