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dickinsonj		#51 Posted : 15 May 2019 01:31:42(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 05/12/2008(UTC) Posts: 1,801 Location: Crozet, Virginia		Originally Posted by: Jabez I believe they are driven into a gorse thicket, and then when cornered, beaten to death with an iron flail. This method of dispatch tenderizes them for future consumption. Sounds like how we do politics here in the US.
		Regards, Jim I have almost all Märklin and mostly HO, although I do have a small number of Z gauge trains! So many trains and so little time.

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Bones		#52 Posted : 17 July 2019 14:36:07(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/09/2015(UTC) Posts: 107 Location: Queensland		I, my brother and his brother in law all have model trains My father worked for the NSW government railways from the age of fifteen and we always travelled by train because we never had a car most of the time My brother in law simply liked trains and it has allowed him to use his electrical knowledge to run trains fully automatically using discarded 24v relays he got from telstra or what used to telecom He's an electrical genius and builds all his own power contollers but not the supplies

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PhillipL		#53 Posted : 24 July 2019 01:49:50(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 24/12/2012(UTC) Posts: 123		After spending a work week testing software, reading technical documentation and dealing with a nasty commute, my little BR 89 (30000) and BR 81 take me back to a simpler and relaxing world!

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dickinsonj		#54 Posted : 24 July 2019 01:56:46(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 05/12/2008(UTC) Posts: 1,801 Location: Crozet, Virginia		Originally Posted by: PhillipL After spending a work week testing software, reading technical documentation and dealing with a nasty commute, my little BR 89 (30000) and BR 81 take me back to a simpler and relaxing world! Oh, so you live in my world too. Some people ask why I prioritize the mechanical beauty of my trains over the software possibilities which digital control provides? Because I do software all week long and my trains are my escape from that digital world into something real and something that I can actually see and control.
		Regards, Jim I have almost all Märklin and mostly HO, although I do have a small number of Z gauge trains! So many trains and so little time.

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TEEWolf		#55 Posted : 24 July 2019 15:36:13(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 01/06/2016(UTC) Posts: 2,465		Originally Posted by: dickinsonj Originally Posted by: PhillipL After spending a work week testing software, reading technical documentation and dealing with a nasty commute, my little BR 89 (30000) and BR 81 take me back to a simpler and relaxing world! Oh, so you live in my world too. Some people ask why I prioritize the mechanical beauty of my trains over the software possibilities which digital control provides? Because I do software all week long and my trains are my escape from that digital world into something real and something that I can actually see and control. Well indeed, digital world is software, trains are hardware. Software does not help when we are starving, hardware helps.
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mike c		#56 Posted : 24 July 2019 16:42:25(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 28/11/2007(UTC) Posts: 8,225 Location: Montreal, QC		Originally Posted by: DigitalNZ Originally Posted by: Franklin In a place where I have control I know that feeling... I wish I had more control over the trains I took to work every day. When it happens a few hundred meters away from where I live, it takes a couple days to fix. When it happens on my layout, it takes me a couple of seconds to fix via the hand of God. To be fair to our infrastructure, it was 28C that afternoon... I think this post is getting a little off track

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Jabez		#57 Posted : 25 July 2019 17:12:48(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 30/08/2016(UTC) Posts: 636 Location: Brussels		Never mind. It's a nice picture of gneiss in the foreground
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kiwiAlan		#58 Posted : 25 July 2019 18:22:08(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,467 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: Jabez Never mind. It's a nice picture of gneiss in the foreground Had to look that one up - ain't Google grand ... That is what comes of living on a join between two seismic plates ... no that doesn't appear to have caused the derailment ...

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quarkhirad		#59 Posted : 08 September 2019 23:16:17(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 25/05/2012(UTC) Posts: 57 Location: surat		Well i have loved trains for the beauty and yes i agree it takes you to a different world altogether . I know some people think i am crazy for spending soooooooo much money on Marklin trains but i love it. I still remember every day i would come back from school and start playing. i made a layout 2.4 X 1.2 meters. Off course i only have analog stuff . So designing the layout then breaking the layout into section for control. Routing all the wiring for the points and crossing. Then i designed the catenary system. Then designing the landscaping ( i made all buildings etc using something made in India that is similar to lego). Doing the wiring for the lights in the station, houses etc. I dont have any signals so i missed that. Further, once i finished the making the layout . i just loved playing with it . Doing shunting operations, running a passenger train around the the layout . i love it. it is just so much fun and yes like a 6 year old kid i would hate it when my mom called me for dinner or said it was time to start studying. I literally have had fightss with her, she has grounded me (can you imagine my punishment was i couldnt touch my train set for 3 DAYs. I think it felt like 3 months). I dont know i have so much fun that once i get on my feet and have enough savings i want to work for Miniature wonderland or some of the guys in india in model rail road. I had to stop because i went university and we shifted into a smaller house so now since 2010 sept i havent played with my train set. Any in the last one 6 years i have saved money and so now i am starting to buy stuff. In fact just in july this year i bought my first digital set a Marklin starter kit . I still remember i got it delivered to my office as i stay alone and hence home is locked most of the time. I actually wanted to open the box in office i had extremely hard time controlling myself . In towards the end of the day i had it on my lap like a baby. I reached home and the first thing i did was to open it and then i set it up and started playing with like a 6 year old i was jumping around . i went on playing with it till like 2 am in the night and i couldn't sleep.

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river6109		#60 Posted : 09 September 2019 11:15:36(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/01/2009(UTC) Posts: 14,874 Location: On 1965 Märklin Boulevard just around from Roco Square		Hi, well we're back from our holiday and my son, (part of buying a few locos) is working on the layouts braking system with some good result, some excellent result and some only God would know the answer and he isn't around very often. My self made braking and opto coupler modules have been part of the problem but also I've been telling my son to turn of the power while working with these modules., what my son doesn't realize by leaving the power on he could damage some of modules and by doing this he is going around circles, one minute the opto coupler is not working the other minute the braking modules doesn't work although they were all working perfectly before. I'm still working on the Railjet and making some progress, only another 3 cars to go. I'm not enjoying fixing modules which operated perfectly before but I can't do it all by myself so a helping hand is always appreciated, he'll get it right in the end because of his stubbornness and determination, like his father. John
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David Dewar		#61 Posted : 09 September 2019 12:22:15(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 01/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 7,452 Location: Scotland		John. Will your son be taking over the orange wire business ? The wonder of model rail. I am thinking of buying a PIKO loco (only because Marklin does not make the model) Will it work and will I be able to programme it etc with my CS3... the excitement will build to fever pitch when the box arrives. I am really just a big kid.
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LongHairedDavid		#62 Posted : 09 September 2019 12:32:18(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/01/2019(UTC) Posts: 344 Location: England, Ipswich		Originally Posted by: David Dewar John. Will your son be taking over the orange wire business ? The wonder of model rail. I am thinking of buying a PIKO loco (only because Marklin does not make the model) Will it work and will I be able to programme it etc with my CS3... the excitement will build to fever pitch when the box arrives. I am really just a big kid. David I purchased some Piko coaches and bought one of their upgrades for the rear lighting. It included a slider and full instructions. It works perfectly on my Marklin layout so you should be fine. Which loco is it?
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river6109		#63 Posted : 09 September 2019 13:06:26(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/01/2009(UTC) Posts: 14,874 Location: On 1965 Märklin Boulevard just around from Roco Square		Originally Posted by: David Dewar John. Will your son be taking over the orange wire business ? The wonder of model rail. I am thinking of buying a PIKO loco (only because Marklin does not make the model) Will it work and will I be able to programme it etc with my CS3... the excitement will build to fever pitch when the box arrives. I am really just a big kid. I've got 2 Piko locos and have no problems with them, some say Piko is rubbish but I haven't had any problems as yet and I can't see where this rumour came from. If my son is going to take over the orange wire business I think he would have to get used to other colours first.
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michelvr		#64 Posted : 09 September 2019 14:39:30(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 06/07/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,316		Did you gentlemen mention Piko? I thought that if you mentioned another brand of model trains on this forum, fire and brimstone would rain down on the post as a reply? Someone must surly like Piko! Please note this reply is baited to get some laughs!

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David Dewar		#65 Posted : 09 September 2019 16:02:08(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 01/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 7,452 Location: Scotland		Originally Posted by: LongHairedDavid Originally Posted by: David Dewar John. Will your son be taking over the orange wire business ? The wonder of model rail. I am thinking of buying a PIKO loco (only because Marklin does not make the model) Will it work and will I be able to programme it etc with my CS3... the excitement will build to fever pitch when the box arrives. I am really just a big kid. David I purchased some Piko coaches and bought one of their upgrades for the rear lighting. It included a slider and full instructions. It works perfectly on my Marklin layout so you should be fine. Which loco is it? Hi David. Piko is V200 59715. Marklin has similar but the Piko price is good and worth getting even if just to see how it runs. I have some Piko coaches which are fine. Just to show I am not going off the rails I am waiting on some new Marklin items coming onto stock before ordering.
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TEEWolf		#66 Posted : 09 September 2019 16:09:12(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 01/06/2016(UTC) Posts: 2,465		Originally Posted by: David Dewar John. Will your son be taking over the orange wire business ? The wonder of model rail. I am thinking of buying a PIKO loco (only because Marklin does not make the model) Will it work and will I be able to programme it etc with my CS3... the excitement will build to fever pitch when the box arrives. I am really just a big kid. David I did it already. I bought the Piko 51647 https://www.haertle.de/M...+AC+digital+Spur+H0.html No problem registering at my CS 3+, running smoothly and nice, so far so good. After a while it suddenly smashed with its slider to the heart at 2 turnouts. Turnouts which were passed before by the loco hassle-free. I do not know why it changed and I have to investigate the cause. Perhaps I shall change the slider underneath. But did not find out yet, which one I shall replace instead.
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