The GnATTERbox

Dear Chris,

herewith for availability and $$$

http://themodelworksaustralia-com.webs. ... rc-control

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

Dear Gnatterboxers, Am frantic trying to remember the name of a minimum space layout contest, possibly based out of France, or certainly in Europe. The core details were that once the modeller had picked their desired gauge, the max allowable layout footprint dimensions (length and width) were some ...

Dear Gnatterboxers,

Just a word that the Australian Narrow Gauge Convention 2015 will be held over April 3rd - 5th 2015, in Bowral NSW.

For more info, visit http://www.austnarrowgaugeconvention.com

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

Dear Glenn, If you want a decent "kaboom", start with one of these http://www.pricom.com/Trains/DreamPlayerLITE.shtml (about as cheap as a ITTC ISD sound module, and a darn sight better in audio spec. User-loadable, and Fully purpose intergrated trigger IN and Control OUTputs too) Source a...

Dear Gavin,

Honesty compels me to admit I have forgotten, are there any of my pics you need better versions of?

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

Dear Gerry, Love the way that some people consider basic circuits soo "proprietary" that they must scrub off any and all ID markings on the components... Seems to be a curiously UK thing, I've noted the same thing with items sold by Gaugemaster... Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr

Dear Adrian, As a extra bit of info, the NCE MiniPanel appears to be the same basic animal as the DSS1, albeit strictly for NCE systems. Both have limitations which are more to do with the DCC at-the-rails command structure than the actual units themselves, but we'll leave that conversation for anot...

Dear Gn15 fans, Simple analog DC shuttles have been a bread-n-butter piece of many show layout builders toolkits for many years now. However, given the need to run any loco (without modification, reconfig, or reporgramming), in any direction, at any orientation, at any time, and in some cases sudden...

Dear Ian,

...That assumes that I will actually have something NG to show at the Convention...

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

PS isn't "Steamy Pudding" mobile?

Dear Ben, Can't recall if I sent Hi-Res, or just the linked pics here, let me know if you need the big ones... Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr - "Brooklyn : 3AM" - "ChicagHO Fork" - "Bindle Mine" - "RS&W" (honourary photomaker) - "Jaxcill...

Dear Chris,

Check Sept 2009 Model Railroader...

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

Dear Gavin,

Good, I was concerned that the World Tour may have gone off-the-boil, and SFER4 left wandering foreign rails, spreading tales of micro layouts...

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

:D SFER#4 is now safely back in New Zealand for a 'mid tour' service, and guest appearance at the NZ Model Railway Convention, at Easter. Not too late to book :roll: Dear Gavin, Yep, after (how many?) Ks, reckon it's about time for those axleboxes to be lubed and maybe repacked... ;-) Happy Modelli...

Dear Adrian, They may not have been Gn15, but in the case of the Aussie examples, all non-Gn15 layouts were layouts which Carl had a _major_ influence on, and had appeared in one form or another in the Small Layout Scrapbook... (IE it wasn't just "layouts for layout's sake")... NB that eve...

Dear Barry, Gerry, Yes, I hadn't calc'd any "re-tracing of steps" within the UK, and hadn't added Essex yet as we haven't seen the photo evidence... ;-) I do have both GoogleMaps and a Excel Spreadsheet in play though, so can provide the calcs if Ben/Gavin wish to refer to some numbers... ...

Dear SFER #4 World Tour fans, Just recieved a data-dump from the axle-odometer/GPS tracker on SFER #4, current reported kilometer-age stands at approx 24117 kilometres... (the long interchange between hemispheres added over 16000 kilometres in one transfer... ;-) ). Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, ...

Dear DCR, No no, never fear. SFER #4 may be a small wagon, but it's a plucky little piece of rollingstock, that's carried many a load far beyond the call of duty. I am in no fear that it'll survive anything it may encounter during the World Tour, and have a wagon-load of stories to tell when it once...

Dear Team, At least SFER #4s World Tour has a Mission, a Reason, not "interchange for the sake of interchange", (Funny, sounds like a commonly-made comparison of Real RRs VS Model RR Ops...) Can't wait for the TMRS podcast, http://www.themodelrailwayshow.com/ Happy Modelling, Aim to Improv...

Dear Ben, Just checking the Flicker site, please note that I am not the builder of - Storage Space (Boot Box) - Jaxcilliest - RS&W Please amend as follows... Layouts by OzTrainz Photos by Prof Klyzlr Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr PS in attempting to click on any of the layout link...

Dear SFER #4 World Tour fans, After some rather odd-gauge transfers during the 24 hours around NYE, it would appear that SFER #4 is back on properly NG rails... SFER #4 was spotted exiting the spoil adit of the Bindle Mine... http://staff.fairlightau.com/johnd/gn15/sfer4/bm_01_s.jpg It was propelled...

Dear SFER#4 World Tour fans, The switch crew on UPY1139 advises that they caught an odd Trackmobile-propelled express-freight movement while switching "Chicago Fork". http://staff.fairlightau.com/johnd/gn15/sfer4/cf_03_s.jpg They parked their SW1500, and headed over to check out the interl...

Dear SFER #4 World Tour Fans, Strange things can occur during NYE celebrations... A traffic camera on the corner of 42nd and 2nd captured NYCH NW2 #59 shoving a short train from the 39th St interchange yard. A suspicious load appears to be riding on a (presumably loaned) SBK/subway maintainence flat...

Dear SFER #4 World Tour fans, Don't worry, I'm reliably informed that SFER #4 was eventually taken down from the RS&W pallet racking... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-uaxjTNLo Having gotten it's wheels back on solid rails, the Manager of the RS&W Group ensured it was safely loaded onto a ...

Dear SFER #4 World Tour fans, SFER #4 is keeping a cracking pace in Interchange! The little SFER #4 was sighted on a pallet, locked in place with packing, at Bay B in the Randim Wrackem and Stackem warehouse. http://staff.fairlightau.com/johnd/gn15/SFER4/rsw_01_s.jpg The RS&W fork delicately lif...

Dear SFER #4 World Tour fans, Being as SFER #4 was originally envisaged as a general purpose ore hauler, I _guess_ Haggi (pural of haggis?) is a logical comodity for it to handle? SFER #4 with surface power at top level of "Jaxcilliest Enterprises" http://staff.fairlightau.com/johnd/gn15/S...