Thats on my to do list as well 
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Here’s another one in the USA I never knew about in Fleming ton, NJ - only an hours drive from where I grew up on Staten Island.
Looks pretty kick-@ss to me.
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It certainly does, going to have to check this out too, once again thank you.
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Got one of these today haven’t set it up yet but it looked just what I wanted to operate my railway app based and Bluetooth will give a report when I have used it
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That looks interesting, looking forward to your report.
Gary
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Just picked up this ROG Class 37 from eBay at a good price. Mint! It’s DCC ready so I’ve been looking into the Hornby sound chips. I’ve used ESU before but they are quite pricey and at £60 the Hornby ones seem great value. You can download different sounds via the app, program them via the app and control the engines via the app. Blooming amazing!
Anybody tried them?
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I have tried a Hornby HM7000 DCC sound chip + stay alive in a Hornby Black 5.
I needed to download the Hornby app on to my phone, then set up the loco’s number and sound file via the app & bluetooth connection.
It worked fine this way.
It is a little different to how I have programmed all the other locos with ESU and DCC Concepts (now Legacy Concepts) sound chips but it’s fine. I use an NCE Powercab controller but the Hornby HM7000 wouldn’t play nicely with it for programming. However, once set up, its fine.
Price wise, it’s substantially cheaper and I would happily use one again on the next Hornby loco.
Hope this helps, BF
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Hi mate just started wiring railway today so hopefully should have something to report soon then I can start on scenery 
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Brilliant. Thanks for that. My programming requirements are very simple for oo-gauge so sounds like the Hornby solution will be perfect for me.
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Excellent, looking forward to seeing your progress
I have some pictures of it too, somewhere but it really does warrant a visit. I think we added it to a visit to Princeton and some other places.
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Any photos of models or the real thing get a from me.
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Hi mate how’s you hope all’s good have you had any thoughts on your layout yet or even got something down on paper it really does occupy the mind. Start doing a plan you don’t have to go big n gauge keeps it with in scope
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Hi Mate, I always have loads of ideas, like everyone else its putting them into practice! you’ve bucked the trend and actually started something. I will post some ideas tomorrow.
Gary
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On the contrary mate it was reading some of your posts that got me back on TRACK 
so will look forward to the morrow young Galahad
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Thank you for your kind comment’s, and glad I helped you get back on track. I do need to get my act together and actually build something, this is the challenge (kick) I need, thank you
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50 years back as a Hornby enthusiast, when I was looking to the future I decided that instead, N scale was the way to go but apart from a 2x4 layout which I built and wired at the time with my late father’s guidance, that vision has been on hold. I built 2 Hornby OO/HO layouts for others in the meantime.
I did amass a large collection of N-scale rolling stock over a period of many years, predominantly N American with a chunk of European too and some UK.
I have been hesitant to actually think about building something after all these years but I am perhaps getting less hesitant now. However I was recently at a model train show and the British outline N scale looked so small that I took some convincing it wasn’t Z. The TT looked much better to me.
In part I believe this is my eyesight and the old issue about where exactly you put the viewing height for the smaller scales but I’ve always thought N gave you more scenery, depth and train content for a given space.
I’ve been particularly impressed by the Vale of Oxbury layout and on YouTube the ‘Southern Alberta Railway’ which both show what N can do. A few years back, Model Railroader did a series on building up their ‘Canadian Canyons’ layout in N as a representation of the CN/CP routes through Western BC and that also highlighted the possibilities.
I’m still dithering about moving forward at all and doing so with N so I’m encouraged by your post and looking forward to how it progresses!
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As promised, a bit of background to my railway modelling and where I am now. I have had an interest in model railways as long as I can remember, my father had a tabletop TT layout that we used to operate, this must have been around 1964/5, this was sold and replaced with the first British outline N gauge from Minitrix, this must have been 1967/68ish, over the years myself and my father amassed a large collection of rolling stock and various layouts were built, but none ever got to the scenery stage.
On buying our first home, layouts were discussed, but never progressed from plans, loads of shows visited, but that’s as far as it got, then one Christmas a Hornby OO Rebuilt Battle of Britain class 4-6-2 turned from from Eileen, and plans turned to actually building a southern themed layout, further stock was acquired ready for the day.
I have always had an interest in the railways of Germany Era 3, so I started to acquire Brawa HO models, a little bit of US HO outline also followed based on the Clinchfield Railroad, so needing something to run them on, a circle of Kato HO tack was purchased and used temporarily on the conservatory floor.
Moving up to 2023 and visiting a few local exhibitions, Eileen announced that she thought O gauge would be better to handle and you wouldn’t need as much…who was I to argue! hence buying the Heljan O gauge Class 26/27 models.
So where to run them, like most of us, space is tight, I have access to building a layout in the garage and following the website https://albionyard.com stuck a cord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NbX8-n3dNA time lapse
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM1GjlX9bmo
What scale, ideally O gauge, however I do need to seriously thin out what I already own, but this is where I am at the moment.
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This weeks update.
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