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Cool video, thanks for sharing
Thanks! I've been watching more and more model railroad operations videos on Youtube lately.
Great stuff! Thanks indeed for sharing
Cheers,
Kev
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Hey thanks for posting it here. That's me in the video switching with the BN SD9 :-) It was great fun.
cheers,
Koos
And now a bit of a shameless plug:
By the way, our group is largely made up of NMRA members , the NMRA British Region, one of the oldest regions outside the US.
We're currently experiencing an increased interest in modular railroading in the UK, and within the NMRA-BR, and a growing interest in operations. The local group that I visit is one of the more active in this area.
I have my own modules under construction, which will eventually be part of these set ups in the future. (see the thread called: A Challenge, designing a modular layout section, here: <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=5811">viewtopic.php?f=46&t=5811</a><!-- l -->).
The NMRA-BR has sometimes been acused to be a lot about politics, and less about modeling.
Hopefully this footage will show that modeling and having FUN with trains is our primary goal, and spend most of our time doing.
The politics that are needed to run a large organisation are largely conducted in the background, and you don't have to participate and can ignore it all together.
If you are interested in wanting to know more, or even better join us (as in the NMRA-BR and perhaps if you live in the south west of the UK, our group), why not visit our website at: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nmrabr.org.uk">http://www.nmrabr.org.uk</a><!-- m --> . We also have a brand new online forum, that goes a long way improving the communication of it's members, and membership starts pretty cheap too.
End of plug :-)
Koos
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Further to Koos' shameless plug, here's four more youTube videos of what our club's been up to in the last eight months or so.
Brian
That's a great set-up you have there, with some excellent modelling. Very enjoyable videos, thanks for sharing.
Makes me think I live in the wrong part of Southern England ..... I need to move West!
Cheers,
Kev
Do you guys use UK style or US style track?
Hi we tend to use Peco code 83 for most of our newer modules.
But I personally have used Peco code 75 (UK type track) on my home layout mixed with code 83 US outline. Once ballasted the difference is not too obvious to me, but on a module people see more of each detail, so there I use the Peco code 83, or Atlas code 83 track almost exclusively (but not always, availability of track is sometimes an issue, I've also used Roco Code 83 flex track, but used US style turnouts)
Koos
Kev1340 Wrote:That's a great set-up you have there, with some excellent modelling. Very enjoyable videos, thanks for sharing.
Makes me think I live in the wrong part of Southern England ..... I need to move West!
Cheers,
Kev
You're always welcome to drop by when in the area Kev! By the way there are several other groups that might be closer to your neck of the woods.
See the NMRA-BR website for an overview of where groups nearer to you operate. Links are: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nmrabr.org.uk/divisions-groups/divisions-groups-list">http://www.nmrabr.org.uk/divisions-grou ... roups-list</a><!-- m --> or <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nmrabr.org.uk/divisions-groups/divisions-groups-map">http://www.nmrabr.org.uk/divisions-grou ... groups-map</a><!-- m -->
When viewing all video's you'll also find mentions to 'RS Tower'. This is originally an exhibition layout group from Exeter, with whom our local group has started work together. Our modules are based to a fair degree, on their standard (which in turn took ideas from a mix of US FREEMO and EU FREMO standards), and have helped define the new 'standard' module board promoted by the NMRA-BR.
The RS Tower group also has some NMRA-BR members, but not all are (neither is the case for our local group by the way). The website of their layout (and their modules ) is here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://rstower.wordpress.com/">http://rstower.wordpress.com/</a><!-- m -->
North American Model Railroading is alive and well in the UK, as you can see.
Koos
Koos,Was you using momentum?
I was impress by the way your engine seem to be moving tonnage by starting and stopping slowly..
To my mind it takes skill to use momentum to switch cars without crash couplings and yes,I use momentum to switch with.
I set the DC momentum on my MRC Tech 6 to acceleration P3= 10 and deceleration P4=12 and that works quite well for me since it take longer to stop once you get the cars moving.
Hi yes to my knowledge all locomotives used that day had momentum programmed in.
There were a few cut/paste jobs in the video so at one stage trains seem to stop a bit more abrupt than they did.
The momentum is something you need to get used to first, so I had instances where I slowed the loco down too soon, and it stopped short of coupling, and others where I was too late, and coupled and pushing the whole train back too far so the last car derailed ... Practice makes perfect.
A good working mechanism and good decoder are key to this. The SD9 is equipped with an ESU Loksound decoder. ESU has one of the best motor control decoder functionality build in, that is available on the market. (other really good ones are by Zimo and Lenz). Tsunami's aren't bad either but they take a lot of patience and setting up and I've never been able to get one as smooth as a Loksound yet. To me Tsunami's are best for road engines, switchers etc need more focus on low speed control, and there the German manufacturers have the edge.
I also have a QSI decoder, that one works well too, but you need a science degree setting it up, there are so many parameters it will take you one or more evenings getting right. (and that is with the aid of a computer program like Decoder Pro, I can't begin to imagine trying to do that via a throttle ...)
Koos
Koos,I my Bachann DCC equipped GE70 tonner wasn't to bad on sitting the momentrum CVs and that seem to smooth the operation of this engine.
If I may.
I haven't fooled with my new Bachmann DCC/Sound S4 momentum CVs yet since it seems to do quite nicely with the DC sitting I use for my P2K and Atlas engines.The S4 will be used in the Tech 6 DCC mode.
I use a different setting my Athearn RTR and a completely different setting including the start voltage for my BB engines..
I will look into a ESU Loksound decoder for one of my CF7s since I like the way your SD handled..
torikoos Wrote:You're always welcome to drop by when in the area Kev! By the way there are several other groups that might be closer to your neck of the woods.
Koos
Thanks for the invite Koos, if I'm ever in the area I'll take you up on that
I have met a few of the guys from my 'local' NMRA-BR group ...... let's just say they didn't inspire me to join .....
Cheers,
Kev