NMRA British Region Forum

I've just been looking at Mike R's extended YouTube vid. of the Exeter Modular meet in March, and it's a taster for next Saturday's event at Broadclyst.

Brian

Never mind "Qualicum"; that first one has obviously got a "Qualicast" fitting on the front end to cut the grass. The second picture shows how good a job it made of it.

Brian

Wanted to try out TCS's new stay-alive fitted ones, so at present they have a pair of KAT12s. I don't have any sound in my fleet at present. The stay-alive feature is probably (again!) overkill in such huge 6 axle machines, so they may eventually get swapped to something smaller and 'switch-ier' - ...

Some ALCo switching for your pleasure. This is something that sound decoders allow you to do in HO:




Brian

More like Z Scale, Mr Boyask. The picture is tiny, so we are unable to appreciate the majesty of your work!

Brian

Dear 114272 (or may I call you 114?)

Great work, and I really like the pictures.

Can I humbly suggest that you change your identity so that we get to find out who you actually are?

Happy days.

Brian

John, You may have seen the comment from Gene Poon under the YouTube video: "The sound of the real SP-10, long silenced during its sleep (and probable eventual demise) at Galveston, was more like a Greyhound bus. Two of them in sync, actually. SP-10, unlike just most remaining operating Budd C...

Simply wonderful.

Brian

Sorted.

I'll also bring along the Budd RDC.

Brian

Can I suggest that, if you are going to run another SD9 with #203, you do another Athearn BB conversion? I used to run a pair of two black widow SD9's together; one was Proto 2000, the other Athearn. You could really notice the difference in the hood width. Best to keep to one type of model.

Brian

A good-looking (and sounding) locomotive, Koos.

But as we are well aware, SP-Heritage stuff usually is.

Brian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQTblY3U2KI Not brilliant, but it gives an idea. The decoder is very basic, and you could do an awful lot better with, say, a Loksound 3.5. There's a feast of European sound files on the Loksound site that you could dabble with. I used this Loksound 2, as it's not got...

I've installed a very early Loksound decoder into my SP10, the first sound decoder I purchased some nine or so years ago - it's not got a lot of upload space on it, but enough for the purpose. Mike Ruby put a German hydraulic (?) download into it, and it sounds reasonable. Can't comment on Digitrax ...

Martyn - you were going to let me know what cars you want me to bring along (reefers, cement, acid) and how many, or are you sorted?

Looking foward to it.

Brian

UPSD7 & CRSD9 1 by bxmoore, on Flickr

And, by golly, they don't look too bad.

Brian