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Bill :) Yep, the front is awful to get to, because its below all the electronics and the speaker. Honestly, my advice is leave it be. I actually added some to the front bogie (I hope) by gently inserting a long needle with a drob of lube on it fronm the side of the loco into the region...

Val, greetings :) I just had a look inside my SW7.. I mentioned it was a bit growly yesterday. I discovered mine had been shipped "dry" no grease, lube or anything. You may want to have a look at yours before it gets too many road miles on it, just in case. A drop of Labelles 108 on each...

LOL greetings:) I got mine today.. the dealer got them in yesterday in Markham:) I got an undec SW and am doing mine in 1950's GTW black and yellow with a few detauils to turn it into an SW9. Interestingly, the SW7's have a twin headlight, but the undecs have a single headlight (like the...

Val, greetings :) I don't necessarily follow the rules with Bus wiring, so all I can say is that my method works for me:) I run a double pair of twisted wires.. right around the outside edge of the layout each way from the command station which is mounted centrally on one side, so each run...

Jetta.. Are you the Jetta from the world America? If so, I am Moria from Colony Alpha and AW :) Regards

Hi Val & Jetta :) Yikes this brings back memories.. activeworlds.. I was a very early user of the system (citizen number 27 and 22108) and for a while I used to work for them and I still own the world called Colony Alpha :) However, as a Mac user, I'm afraid your out of luck mainly :cry...

Greetings :) All this bus wire stuff can get a bit complex and really its all a peace of mind thing.. ie do I know I am going to be alright? :) Heres the way I approached the whole problem... Yes I wanted to have blocks, so that I wouldn't take down the whole layout with a short, but they...

Greetings. Yep, in the past I have used series 3 decoders, especially when I used to use Plug and Pray (not a mispelling) ones. However, I always found them rather expensive, and now, even if a Plug and Pray is available, I tend to rip out the circuit board and hardwire in something like an...

Greetings :) Good question, not so simple answer :) Let me explain. Back EMF does not, in my humble opinion, help slow speed running at all. BEMF is designed to compensate for load on the loco, so that when running uphill or downhill the power to the motor is adjusted and the speed remains...

Thanks all for the info :) Val.. hold of on the digging I have, I think, found an alternative :) I made up a trial board yesterday.. combination of 2x1 and 3x1 framing and bracing with a thin plywood top and then a layer of 1" foam on top. With a layer of cork under the track, it seems...

Hi Andrew :) You may just be right.. however, I have to believe, well almost, that in this day and age of computer control, DCC and cheap electronics, there has to be some way of getting reliable and affordable remote uncoupling. You know, today I was even thinking up ways to have an under...

Greetings all :) OK, I am using kadee couplers on my new mini HO layout, actually #58's throughout so far. I am not keen on using the permanent magnets to uncouple, as certainly in N-gauge, I have had unreliable and unwanted uncoupling so I was looking at the Electromagnet ones but they look...

Hi Graham :) Yep GWR is in the blood, literally :) I am planning on calling the new layout the GWR because in my research, even though it only lasted till the late 1800's.. 1884 I think from memory, the section of the GTW/CN that I want to model was origionally the Great Western Railway of...

Hi Chris :) Yep, am also an ex pat, although I have only been here a couple of years. Modelling the GWR is second nature to me.. you know.. GWR Branch line terminus.. etc etc and I brought most of my reference books with me. My huge learning curve is local railways :) Anyway, after a...

Greetings all :thumb: Many thanks for the advice.. I have my shopping list of things to go look at now. Luckily I have a good LHS so I can go and browse and look at all the advice and options. Thanks again Regards Graham

Greetings all :thumb: Quick question.. I am going to build a small minimum space HO layout with Sound and DCC and the works.. yes I know N-gauge for 30 years and now I try playing elsewhere :eek:, so call me stupid.. it will be one of the better things I have been called over the years. I...

Greetings all Having been a model railroader for some 40+ years and always in N-scale (well I started with Treble O electric in the UK) (thats as close as I am going to put it) I have realised that my aims and interests are still not cut and dried. Having spent the last year starting a...

Greetings :) You are a little restricted by the number of manufacturers of GWR N-gauge locos.. 2 :) Lets see whats available.. Farish / Bachmann 57xx Pannier 0-6-0, 94xx Pannier 0-6-0, 61xx Large Prairie, 4-6-0 Hall, 4-6-0 Castle, 4-6-0 King, Apart from the 57xx and Hall, the rest...

Hi :) This is one of those eternal questions which is always hard to answer :) Bachmann DCC, so I have heard, is good at doing what it is meant to do.. be a simple easy way into DCC and capable of addressing 10 seperate locos on a layout, but it is a very early beginners set, just like the...

Hi :) Try these circuits :) http://home.cogeco.ca/~rpaisley4/AutoRevCheap.html or http://home.cogeco.ca/~rpaisley4/AutoRev4.html I have built a number of Bob's circuits and they all seem to do exactly what they intend to, even with my ham-fisted approach to circuit building :thumb...