New model railroad open house added:
High Wycombe & District Model Railway Society Open Day
@hwdmrs.bsky.social
September 21, 2025
10am-3pm
11 Duke Street
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
An overhead view of an HO model railroad section with an ore loading area, a small railway shed, an overhead bridge, seven tracks and three switches. Ore spills, rock outcrops and lack of vegetation dominate the scene.
You would think it would be easy to model a place with very little vegetation but I am finding it difficult. I am working on a nickel mine region, modeling the year 1985 outside of Sudbury, Ontario where nothing grew.
Analog Conversion is a Power Conversion Mode supported by most Multifunction Decoders. It's an optional feature. DCC signals will damage coreless motors.
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A group of CN train crew members and railfans stands on the platform at Montreal Central Station next to CN Z-1-a electric locomotive No. 6710 after its final run through the Mount Royal Tunnel on June 2, 1995. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Jun 2, 1995: CN's old electrics operate for the last time on the Montreal-Deux-Montagnes commuter line through the Mount Royal Tunnel. The equipment included Z-1-a, Z-4-a and Z-5-a electric locomotives; EP-59a and EP-69a electric multiple units and balloon-top coaches. 1/3
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A black and white photograph of a massive articulated steam locomotive. The cylinders are huge, and the boiler even bigger.
The largest cylinders ever fitted to a steam locomotive were the massive 48"x32" low pressure cylinders on the Virginian Railway's Class AE 2-10-10-2. The high pressure cylinders were also huge at 30"x32". Otto Perry captured #801 at Roanoke VA in 1932.
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I don't know if Al Kalmbach would be rolling in his grave, crying or laughing that the biggest change in environmental law in a generation was because his magazine became a foamer gossip rag.
After almost 3 years out of service and a lot of research, paranoia, and soldering...
IT'S ALIVE
Why do so many modellers rely on a $0.50 light bulb to protect their expensive DCC systems & locomotives when proper short protection is available?
Pay now or pay later, your choice.
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An advertisement featuring a bottle and glass of ale alongside a model train under construction. The ad promotes a blend of hobbies and the enjoyment of ale. CARLING'S Red Cap ALE FULL 12 OZ For 109 years in Canada, now a product of U. S. A., too. Somewhere close by is a man who knows how to enjoy a hobby and a wonderful glass of ale, too. Enjoy the full, delicious flavor of this light, bright, golden ale ... Let the jolly Red Cap remind you to call for Carling's.
From America, May 1949: Red Cap Ale ad from Carling's
«CARLING'S Red Cap ALE»
Next18/Next18-S, designed for installation in tight spaces such as #TTScale & #NScale applications. It has very strict definitions for its dimensions.
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DCC Multifunction decoders don't use DC to drive the motor. They create a Pulse Width Modulated signal to control direction & accurately maintain the desired speed.
It really is simple! Repost: spread the word.
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Avanti West Coast heading to Euston.
📆 2025-04-28
If you have the May 2025 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman, there is an article on the construction of the S Scale mode in brass.
Not sure what it is a Program Track. but many seem determined to wire it to ensure damage, so here is the proper way to wire one.
Program Tracks work in Service mode, so the decoder's address is irrelevant.
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@sithlet.bsky.social holds hands with a tired cat laid out on a model railroad
Cats perch and sleep in a model railroad display in the window of a cafe while passersby watch
A cat on a shelf in back that has not been nice enough to meet with cafe visitors. A sign below his space says (in English) “There is a possibility of injury.”
A cat laying down on a model railroad display, resting his head on and paw between buildings
More photos from Tetsudoukan Cafe & Rest Bar in Osaka, which is a combination restaurant/model railroad/cat rescue. Well worth the trip.
An oft repeated myth is that OPS mode will program all the locos on your #modelrailway. True, if you omit the address of the decoder to be programmed.
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Turntables are another interesting feature on a #modelrailroad.
They can be a centerpiece of a #modelrailway engine servicing facility.
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Canadian National Railway diesel locomotive No. 7700, a short, squat black locomotive with a pair of four-wheel trucks and an operator's cab at one end. Canadian Locomotive Company builder's photo, Canada Science and Technology Museum collection.
May 17, 1930: the Canadian Locomotive Company delivers No. 7700 to CN, the first diesel-electric switcher ordered by a Canadian railway. Most of the locomotive's internal diesel-electric components came from the Westinghouse Company; assembly was done at CLC in Kingston. 1/2
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Supertrain 2025, Olympic Oval, Calgary, Alberta.
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New model train show added:
Shrewsbury Festival of Model Railways
June 7, 2025
10am-4pm
Church of St Mary the Virgin
Shrewsbury, UK
A crossover enables a train to transition from one track to another, in contrast a crossing facilitates crossing of one track by another.
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