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Peter Butler
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Re: G&DR

Post by Peter Butler » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:51 pm

Some time ago I built a 'momentum wagon' using the Zecar and showed it in my thread, 'Time to build a railway etc...' It ended up as a box van and looked perfectly OK although was a little noisy with the body acting as a sound box. The build went something like this...
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Even with the foam insulation it was still noisy but it worked well. I no longer run steam locos, RC battery only, so I sold it on.
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