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KINLOCHEWE
By NICK SKELTON
… used, the latter switched by Tortoise motors via a simple control panel. The crossover is wired so as to be co-acting … to a servo motor. Trains are operated via a Lenz LH100 Digital Command Control (DCC) setup which is simple and very reliable. …
Introducing Grosvenor Square
By MIKE WILD
… automatic uncoupling of locomotives from arriving trains, Digital Command Control (DCC) operation, seven carriage trains and, as an … step guide shows how we installed the permanent magnets. Digital Approach There was only one choice when it came to …
Accurascale Scottish 'Car Headlight' Class 37/0s
By MARK CHIVERS
… The impressive Class 37/0 digital sound project also has a great deal of presence, … lift-off roof section, which provides access to the 21-pin Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder socket and tiny microswitches for …
Hornby project updates – January 2024
By MIKE WILD
… an all-new chassis, five-pole skew-wound motor, 21-pin Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder socket, flickering firebox, working … body tooling, five-pole skew-wound motor, flywheel, 21-pin Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder socket and sprung metal …
Class 104 Conversion
By TIM SHACKLETON
… release now includes an upgraded motor bogie and 8-pin Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder socket (HM201). Above: On a cold, damp … best ways to modify older models like this with lighting, digital sound and other state-of-the-art refinements that …
Grosvenor Square's second coming
By MIKE WILD
… include final wiring up of the DCC Concepts Cobalt IP digital turnout motors (and addressing them), cleaning and … tasks of fitting all the connecting cables, arranging the control bus from the Gaugemaster Prodigy base station, … to continue uninterrupted through the storage yard under digital control. Come Saturday morning and the baseboards …
Hornby Class 66 – The Green Progressor
By BEN CHURCH
Hornby’s latest version of its former Lima Class 66 is GB Railfreight’s unique green 66796 The Green Progressor. The locomotive was painted in its livery and named to reflect its use on High Speed 2 construction trains.
Installing Hornby Triplex sound in ‘TT:120’ scale
By MIKE WILD
… functions can be catered for as well as the standard motor control and track pick-up circuits. This type of decoder has …
Accurascale ‘Manor’ Debut
By MIKE WILD
… of the fire glow which operates permanently on analogue control and through function 8 (AUX 1) on the DCC sound … Slow speed control was excellent on both analogue and digital control while the firebox glow was very effective … in the tender and a second in the smokebox to deliver digital sound. If you opt for the DCC ready locomotives, they …
Thorne Yard
By SIMON HOWARD.
… baseboards. Trackwork is handbuilt with C&L products, DCC control is via NCE Power cabs. The key purpose of the layout …
Tyne Dock ‘9F’ for ‘OO’ gauge
By MIKE WILD
… effect, but this is a permanent feature on analogue and digital control as the lighting board is fed directly from the track. …
Ranelagh Bridge
By MALCOLM BENTLEY
… controlled with pointwork powered by DCC Concepts Cobalt Digital IP point motors controlled by NCE Powered handsets. …
Hornby’s all-new Stanier ‘Black Five’
By MIKE WILD
… a DCC handset and when track power is applied on analogue control. The lamps have a nice yellow glow and switch off at … this as a separate controlled function as it would allow digital sound users to combine the firebox glow with a coal …
Fairwood Junction
By STEVE JONES
… new – a scenic technique, scale, gauge, or in this case Digital Command Control (DCC). I received a camera for my 50th birthday a … the scenic section, returning to the road it came from. Control is via an ESU ECoS 50210 command centre which I am a …
Norman Colliery
By GEOFF BRAIN
… these. The centre board plugs are on longer wires so the control panel can be fixed to either the front or back of the layout. This was never going to be a Digital Command Control layout so I purchased a Morley Controllers Vanguard …