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darkscot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 6:14 pm I was looking for crossing gates recently and found these:

http://www.ancortonmodels.com/oolc1/4585813029

I have not bought them yet, but they look promising.

They look excellent. Thank you so much for pointing them out.

Good evening and a Happy New Year to you all. I hope you are all keeping safe in these strange and testing times. I've been trying to make progress with my OO layout and have used air dried clay to lay the base for a crossing - it's an unusual spot as the crossing is across a Y shaped piece of track...

That's really helpful, thank you. On some minor pathways I have used very fine grade wet and dry paper which looks quite good because it marks easily - like a normal pathway. Perhaps I should just extend this to the roads.

This is a friendly forum and advice freely given - thank you.

I am about to start laying roads. What materials do people find most useful for this task? I've read many things from paint to fine ballast and now can't see the wood for the trees....or road.

Advice gratefully received. Thank you.

Thank you for your kind comments. I did consider sound but decided against it for now. I may well add bells ringing at some point - I will make a hole where the wires for the lights come down through the board for a speaker if I get to that. Here's a picture of the latest. The walls have been rather...

Good evening everybody. Rather than posting about the lumpy running of my 14XX I thought you might like to see my church and churchyard developing. The church has LED lights which are very effective although I found the LEDs too bright so I have wired in a resistor (oops can't remember which value I...

Not sure if this helps at all, but............. https://www.youchoos.co.uk/Index-Resource.php?L1=Guides&Item=DJM14XX Thank you for the link. I had seen this some time ago and decided to let YouChoos do the work - which they did. As they say, 'there's not a lot of room'. YouChoos have done plent...

I had a 14XX that was OK. If it is attached permanently to a coach it won’t need a stay alive surely. I absolutely agree, you'd think not. I may go back to YouChoos and ask them to fit the pick ups and permanently couple. I've learned a great deal over the last couple of years but I feel this small...

Here is the last message I received from YouChoos. TBH I cannot remember how the wiring to the pickups was in the 14XX… I do recall that trailing ANY extra wires from one end to the other was going to be mighty hard, so that would be my greatest concern. Ideally you’d want 4 extra wires… 2 for the c...

Good evening everybody. I am returning to an old favourite topic now that my marshalling yard is laid and working it's back to the stuff I still haven't resolved! Some time ago I explained that my Dave Jones 14xx (Hattons) had been away to YouChoos to fit the DCC sound chip - it needed soldering and...