Model Forum / General / Railroads / May 2009

Take a look at this video by hp computers and what they did to a mainframe
computer and back up storage...
it was filmed in rention, washington USA at railway mueasum with a
locomotive.

There is a superb exhibition coming up this Saturday
May 16th. St. Clare's
Newton Aycliffe
St Clare's Rectory

OK, for those of you who have been pining away for the next issue of
The SouthErneR it is finally here, online at the SE Region's website
at:
http://www.ser-nmra.org/sou.htm

Not many posts and lots of spam.
What's going on here?

What did I miss on this one ?
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The Central African Republic’s mineral resource endowment includes
copper, diamond, gold, graphite, ilmenite, iron ore, kaolin, kyanite,
lignite, limestone, manganese, monazite, quartz, rutile, salt, tin,
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The Hornby blurb re the Elite unit says it outputs 15V AC power with
superimposed signals. Tried to look at this on my rather duff scope, but
can't lock on. Need to know the frequency of the "constant" 15V , ie. is it
50 Hz  standard UK domestic mains, or something else? Whatever ...

They must have a bit more sun in Florida than we do here :-)
http://www.hightechscience.org/solar_express.htm
" The layout was designed so even if there is no sun over a long
period of time, there would still be plenty of reserve power stored in

Am building the LMS 1F from Craftsman kit, tried my preferred combination of
motor and gears but they dont fit easily.
Instructions recommend Romford gear set with Anchorage D11 which may not be
available any more. Can anyone suggest a mashima equivalent - there are

For those who may be interested in paying their last respects here are
the details of Cyril Freezer's funeral.
Dear All
As promised, here is an update on the arrangements.  The funeral will

Kato is now offering various of their diesels with built-in Digitrax
DCC and sound units. I'm interested in this one (see link) and have a
few questions:
(A) Is the Digitrax unit compatable with my club-dictated NCE Power

Been looking at the  demo on youtube. Quite impressive .  Couldn't quite
judge if the puffing is in sync with the piston positions. Don't know
anything about train classes, but the puffing timing suggested three
cylinders at slow speed, and as the speed increased, I thought it ...

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Nice set of pictures on chassis assembly in this months model rail. But if
anyone following that for their first attempt should be warned that theres
not enough emphasis on getting the frames square. Without them  correct then
its difficult if not impossible to make a good runner ...