To be totally honest, I’ve never used the two-row ones. Using the single row styles, I have several locos with 9 wires between lock and tender and one with 10, using two plug/socket units. Decoder (TS

Here's the part numbers for the connectors I use. These are in strips of 50, cut off wat you need. The 1.27mm ones are basically the same as the wired ones TCS sell. The 1mm ones are similar but in my

No, I don’t use the solder cups. I use the single row plug and socket which you solder wires on the other sides. I think the one you showed is actually a socket, the hood is where the pin goes and yiu

I use 1.27mm and 1mm connectors all the time. I buy them in rows of 50 and cut off what I need. They’re made by MillMax and obtainable from Mouser. Do you need the part numbers? Mick _________________

Blind tyres on steam locos here in the UK are banned on the network, because they are usually wider than flanged tyres and start hitting things like raised checkrails. They also don’t go thru self gua

The L shape may have been to make location for soldering easier. Mick ______________________________________ Mick Moignard mick@... p:+44 7774 652504 skype: mickmoignard The week may star

They’re ok. Decent layout models, not the best detai levels, and they are generic models of the class. They usually run well. Horrible over-wide treads on the tender and loco truck wheels, but that’s

The issue with the Concor Geese is the totally wrong roof profile on the freight box, plus the fact that they reused their #5 box for their #7, and it’s too short as well as the bad roof. I suspect th

Bodo I didn’t originate the 500-750 figure. I just extrapolated from it. I have no idea what the number of active HOn3 modellers is. Mick ________________________________ Mick Moignard m: +44 7774 652

If the number of HOn3 modellers worldwide really is only 500-750 world wide, then I can see why Blackstone appear to have stopped making anything new. I guess back in the day when Westside made thousa

I have a write up of doing a #2 with a Concor mech if anyone is interested. And no, Lambert 3 truck Geese are not a drop on to a Concor mech, but the work would not be massively difficult to do. Mick

I have PSC WSLCo Heisler #2, the Japanese version, with Tsunami-2 sound. And a PSC latest run #8 3truck Shay also with Tsunami-2 sound. So it is possible… Mick ______________________________________ M

Or indeed the software industry meaning of R&D - Rob and Deploy! Mick ______________________________________ Mick Moignard mick@... p:+44 7774 652504 skype: mickmoignard The week may star

Nice detail idea. I’m going to steal that sometime. Mick ______________________________________ Mick Moignard mick@... p:+44 7774 652504 skype: mickmoignard The week may start M, T, but i

Here’s a photo of my attempt at the steel trucks from an MDC one. PSC’s version on the left, mine on the green car on the right and an unmodified MDC truck in the centre. Plus a Gerald Best photo from

I asked PSC at the time they did the last run of long RPOs about the cast truck, and they were indeed then available at about $80 a pair, so I skipped, especially as I think the sideframes are a littl

I'd been playing with 009 here in he UK in the early to mid 70s, but preferred the idea of NG mainlines rather than the genre of mineral extraction railways and bucolic short feeder lines that predomi

They’re almost certainly not D&RGW cars. Those stayed with the Rio Grande. But a large number of the old C&S cars that went to the RGS then made it to Hawaii around 1942/43, and I think those are the

I have one just like that and I sleeved the split cup with a slice of brass tube. Took about a minute and works just fine. In the photo it’s the cup immediately on front of the engine. Loco now has 8

I’m up for new production of Grandt trucks too. Mick ________________________________ Mick Moignard m: +44 7774 652504 Skype: mickmoignard The week may start M,T but it always ends WTF.