Over the Christmas break, I started ballasting the layout. Quiet happy with it now. I did add an extra Road, Road number 5 - makes shunting the main industries much easier and also most VR yards had five roads.
I am now using the Yard as “Staging” - trains arrive and depart from here - run a few loops in the inner loop which represents the country and then comes back in.
I also airbrushed the side of the rails a rusty colour. Took about 1.5 hours. Still have a small section to do.
Also borrowed Craig’s 48 Class which has the Full Throttle (FT) Sound Decoder from Loksound - quite impressive motor control and performance although the horn is little weak.
I have a Tsunami 2 Sound decoder in my B Class - the thing I like about the Tsunami 2 is the auto-notching feature. The Full Throttle sound decoder does not have this feature.
It feels like if you want to be track-side, the Tsunami 2 is the one, if you want to be in the cab, the LokSound FT is the one.
B60 - Tsunami2 Auto notching:
Nice Lights on the LokSound:
Horn - sound little weak:
More sounds:
Now I am tempted to get sound for my Y Class!
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