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Free good fings oggi:

1. Which as I removed the weights holding it in place, the setrack, with which I'd replaced the flexitrack on the tight curves at each end of the layout, stayed in place, and a coach ran smoothly and quickly thereupon. #ModelRailway

2. Roach Major is down from That Scotland to visit the "corporate" HQ in Fordingbridge during their year-long industry placement, so we family dinner on us tomorrow night.

3. The bike shop could fit me in this week for a repair I'd rather not tackle.

#3GoodThings

My workstation for the next couple of hours. Rainy Sundays are for soldering. #ModelRailway

I managed to pick up some appropriate chaldron wagons for Locomotion No. 1, as my kit build ones are kind of on hiatus at the moment. Can finally have some sort of train with it! #ModelRailway

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

Ok, brilliant. Someone I know has started selling model railway scale models of Count Binface #ModelRailway #CountBinface

Obviously I'm getting one. #ModelRailway #CountBinface

#Today #3Things

1. 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.

2. Some useful comments on my humungous #tech post last night mean that I have some new #ModelRailway software to try out.

3. 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!

7754 is back up and running, lovely! #ModelRailway

After seeing the real thing on Sunday, it has been nice rolling this about for a bit. #ModelRailway #CityOfTruro

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

It’s a sort of purple colour. #ModelRailway

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

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

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

A brief shift down the electric string mine this morning. #ModelRailway

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

Island platform waiting room and canopies are under construction… #ModelRailway #Metcalfe #OOScale #Station

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

The "discussion" about model prices is so very tiring, but I can't resist pointing out that these cost a Packet. #ModelRailway

Pannier. #ModelRailway