I caved and got my ugly American thing. In the end, I felt continuing my series of models of locos I’ve worked on was worth doing. #ModelRailway
Tom
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A steam engine cleaner and crossing keeper while my real job is IT. I also like small versions of trains, Lego, planes, cars, and whatever obsessive rabbit hole I find myself falling down this week.
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Ok, brilliant. Someone I know has started selling model railway scale models of Count Binface #ModelRailway #CountBinface
https://www.photogra-fix.com/product-page/countbinface
Tom
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Obviously I'm getting one. #ModelRailway #CountBinface
Drew 🇵🇭
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#Neurodivergent #AntiTheist #GenX #AnimalLover with quite severe #CPTSD. I have good and bad days. Doing my best but liable to shitpost without warning. I often post about #DogsOfMastodon #GoatsOfMastodon #Tech #Autism #AuDHD #ModelRailway #NGauge #Philippines #SilentSunday and I share daily mundanities via #Today and #3Things. More likely topics are in my pinned post below.
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Our recent #coconut harvest, though not our biggest by number of nuts, is the record-holder for gross profit thanks to bigger nuts and a higher market price per kilo for the dried #copra.
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Some useful comments on my humungous #tech post last night mean that I have some new #ModelRailway software to try out.
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My efforts to show willing for my wife's birthday event include a new shirt, which (after having bought it under duress) I actually quite like, despite spending 99% of the time in a teeshirt these days.
Added the #3GoodThings tag because they're all good today!
Tom
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7754 is back up and running, lovely! #ModelRailway
Tom
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A steam engine cleaner and crossing keeper while my real job is IT. I also like small versions of trains, Lego, planes, cars, and whatever obsessive rabbit hole I find myself falling down this week.
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After seeing the real thing on Sunday, it has been nice rolling this about for a bit. #ModelRailway #CityOfTruro
Tom
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I’m contemplating listing a second model for sale. I’m not 100% sure because I like the loco a lot, it’s just that it mostly sits in a box and feels a waste, especially when it’s worth quite a bit of money. Conflicted. #ModelRailway
Tom
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It’s a sort of purple colour. #ModelRailway
Tom
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I was really impressed with the train itself though. It's a nice size, a good balance of detail and size overall. Looks fabulous, especially with the lights on the end! #ModelRailway
Phil Haigh
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No pictures because… frustration.
I finished re-mapping all my DCC sensor boards and points and updated JMRI so that it has all the new references, and so the old references are deleted. I think I might have two or three point sensors back to front still, but I’ll work that out next time.
After a very long and frustrating evening testing LocoNet cables for faults, and LocoNet boards for faults, and making new cables, and testing those, and going round in circles… I finally worked out that my LocoNet boards are picky about the order they physically appear on the network 😡 (the DCC command station has three network ports on it, they’re all in use, and two have multiple devices connected in an essentially random order).
Yeah. Go figure. Who knows, there might be a reason. But I’m not thinking about it tonight.
#ModelRailway #LocoNet
Phil Haigh
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This afternoon I finally finished properly educating myself on the subject of DCC addressing with respect to sensors, and specifically how sensor boards work on LocoNet - and that block occupancy seniors occupy the same addressable space as, say, point feedback sensors.
Now that probably seems obvious but what wasn’t obvious to me was how YaMoRC sensors get their LocoNet ID - just subtract 1 from the first address and then divide by 16 and add 1. Took a bit of experimentation but now I have six IDs for Digitrax boards and four for YaMoRC boards, with no overlapping addresses 🤦🏻 and space for growth (that I almost definitely don’t need).
Now I’m just writing up documentation before I reconfigure JMRI. It’s a big step forward even though it doesn’t look like one.
#ModelRailway #DCC #digitrax #progress
Jon Roach
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Chartered Engineer, endangered MAMIL & former pro photographer, returning railway modeller. Brand Ambassador for Earl Grey tea. Ho/Hum. Follows only accounts with visible profile info & a variety of original posts. Very bored by the Angrily Online of all stripes. Personality, morals, behaviour, character: "Very bad. So bad." #NoBots
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A brief shift down the electric string mine this morning. #ModelRailway
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In a couple of hours I got all the fiddle yard wired up to power.
Got the point motors to add, but running out of space on the bus to add any more break-in tags.
Might need to extend the bus and turn it back on itself.
You can get 4-way solenoid-and-decoder devices but I think I'd prefer the flexibility of 4 separate solenoid-decoder pairs.
#ModelRailway
Phil Haigh
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Island platform waiting room and canopies are under construction…
#ModelRailway #Metcalfe #OOScale #Station
Phil Haigh
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Fit in? Why? Being myself is so much more fun! ADHD is my superpower. I possess an obscure sense of humour, will happily string song lyrics together in answers to questions, and can’t resist a challenge (the harder the better). Sprint triathlon? Done. Half marathon? Done. Vatternrundan? Um, yeah, unfinished business (223km). Enjoy the outdoors. Left leaning, LGBTQIA allay in training, anti-AI. My spirit animal is an Orangutan crossed with an Octopus. An Ooktopus, if you will.
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My ESU programmer arrived today. Held off ordering one for quite a while but having decided to standardise on ESU deciders it was only a matter of time. Yet another piece of kit with Windows only software, sigh.
#ModelRailway #ESU
Jon Roach
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Chartered Engineer, endangered MAMIL & former pro photographer, returning railway modeller. Brand Ambassador for Earl Grey tea. Ho/Hum. Follows only accounts with visible profile info & a variety of original posts. Very bored by the Angrily Online of all stripes. Personality, morals, behaviour, character: "Very bad. So bad." #NoBots
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The "discussion" about model prices is so very tiring, but I can't resist pointing out that these cost a Packet.
#ModelRailway
Tom
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Pannier. #ModelRailway
Jon Roach
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Chartered Engineer, endangered MAMIL & former pro photographer, returning railway modeller. Brand Ambassador for Earl Grey tea. Ho/Hum. Follows only accounts with visible profile info & a variety of original posts. Very bored by the Angrily Online of all stripes. Personality, morals, behaviour, character: "Very bad. So bad." #NoBots
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That's the fiddle yard laid and glued down. Join me* on some unspecified future date for a demonstration of upwards soldering as I tie 30+ dropper wires into the main bus without dripping solder in my eye.
*it would be lovely to meet you in person, but if you think I'm going to broadcast this like some sort of "influencer", think again.
#ModelRailway
Phil Haigh
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This lunchtime I’ve spent some time working on incorporating hanging lights into the Metcalfe platform canopies. It’s going quite well so far. Taken my time to work out exactly how to get the lamps where I want.
#ModelRailway #Metcalfe #PlatformCanopy #Lighting #OOScale
Phil Haigh
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Platform 1 and the associated buildings contribute to make slow but steady progress…
#ModelRailway #Metcalfe #OOScale #Progress