Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

  ...As analogue setups are pretty limited).

Welcome to the forums. Lots of help on here if and when you need it.

Analogue, etc - Oh dear - that's red rag to a bull...

Certainly is concidering I am a member of the Royal and Ancient order of analogue users,

and after 49 years it still faithfully serves my every need

Sorry got to go and chase that red rag ;-)

Nothing limiting about analogue at all its all pretty simple to do you just have to make the CCT that does what you want.

Every body wants you to belive Analogue users and set ups are limited nothing could be further from the truth.

Now if you said spring power was limited that would be close to the truth but even today it still has its followers that swear by it.

What you need to do is research all methods of train control then decide which one serves both your wallet and needs and knowledge the best

regards John

@Buz

You are preaching to the converted John - each to his own - springs included. I just happen to be DC turned DCC, in fact my points are both, so I bear no malice to analogue.

I just made the obvious comment that by singleing analogue out as 'limiting' in no time flat there would be a hoo-ha coming.

 Rob

Latest  buy Hornby Elite. Just to offer a tad of solice, My layouts (DC), are much larger than DCC. so can help if nec. john

  ...As analogue setups are pretty limited).

Welcome to the forums. Lots of help on here if and when you need it.

Analogue, etc - Oh dear - that's red rag to a bull...

Certainly is concidering I am a member of the Royal and Ancient order of analogue users,

and after 49 years it still faithfully serves my every need

Sorry got to go and chase that red rag ;-)

Nothing limiting about analogue at all its all pretty simple to do you just have to make the CCT that does what you want.

Every body wants you to belive Analogue users and set ups are limited nothing could be further from the truth.

Now if you said spring power was limited that would be close to the truth but even today it still has its followers that swear by it.

What you need to do is research all methods of train control then decide which one serves both your wallet and needs and knowledge the best

regards John

As I'm still a relative novice, what seems limiting to me is the level of control one has over many trains at once. Then theres also the issue of switching points and isolating bits of track that you want powered. One has to put a lot of thought into their DC layout in order to not come-a-cropper with isolating some bits and stalling trains on others.

Perhaps limitied was the wrong choice of word. Perhaps I should have said that DCC is (should be) easier to setup your layout without thought of isolating bits of track by accident (As with DCC all the track is powered).

  As I'm still a relative novice, what seems limiting to me is the level of control one has over many trains at once. Then theres also the issue of switching points and isolating bits of track that you want powered. One has to put a lot of thought into their DC layout in order to not come-a-cropper with isolating some bits and stalling trains on others.

 

Perhaps limitied was the wrong choice of word. Perhaps I should have said that DCC is (should be) easier to setup your layout without thought of isolating bits of track by accident (As with DCC all the track is powered).

No matter which system you ultimatly choose to use you must make sure you understand it and how it operates and any limitations the system has.

As a novice remember the only stupid question is the one you should have asked and did not.

You are going to make mistakes just try and make them small ones and you will learn from them

Us so called expert's have been there sometimes we forget that must be the rose coloured glasses we sometimes wear ;-)

No matter what model railway you build it will require planning covering the track plan operating system how the benchwork is to be built what you want in the scenery needs to be thought about stations towns etc what kind of railway you want.

Sounds a pain but actualy the planning can be just as much fun as building and running the railway.Thats the beauty of the hobby so many different areas to be able to try something interesting and new.

regards John

Just ordered a set of stamps and first day cover from Jersey stamps! 

R3105 GWR Castle Class 'Wellington' 5075 (2010 tooling). Running in now. I'm thinking of removing the sound chip and speaker from Clun Castle and putting it into this one.

Also DG225004 GWR Ruston Bucyrus 19 - Drag Shovel '1083' and some remote uncouplers.

Just taken delivery of the new Hornby Railroad Hall Looks good but wish I could get hold of a tender water scoop etc (would be nice if Hornby sold detailing packs). I haven't had chance to do a test run as I am awaiting a chip. Another acquisition is a Hornby AEC railcar (GWR No 29) to go with my Lima no 22. This was second hand off ebay. The only fault was a miossing body screw and it had a number of passengers blue-taked into it. my third is the Bachmann 64XX.

Just finished testing my recently acquired Late BR crest Class D11/2 4-4-0 62677 "Edie Ochiltree". It has been specially fitted with directional working lamps, firebox glow, separate smoke decoder, footplate crew and fabulous sound.  

20 of these at 33p each from China.

Ordered on 3 March, tracked them all the way, and they arrived in UK on11 March.