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You could make it as long as you want by adding more middle cars or making a two-set train. Whether the motor would pull the extra cars I don't know.

No but it should be straightforward. There may not be room in the same car as the motor and hub, but you could put it in the next car as the sensor leads are quite long.

Not too difficult. The Lego Train Motor is under the middle car (check out the left wheel at the start of the video) and the City Hub is in the middle car. Only one axle is driven but the train is quite light so not really a problem with wheel slip unless you have steep slopes/grades. There are probably better ways to motorize it which I'm sure will get published as more people get the set. KR Dave

Thanks! It's some time ago now. The catenary is just the standard LGB "Modell" catenary which looks the part but is quite expensive, but not too bad on a small indoor layout like mine was. Dave

Massoth DCC pulsed smoke generator and Massoth smoke oil. The pulse came from the Massoth XL decoder not a wheel sensor

Unfortunately not. I left OO gauge years ago and now model in G gauge. I did enjoy building that though and I took a trip to visit Wigan Wallgate for research purposes and did a lot of background research. Somewhere I have a word doc with all my research and pictures in it. It was quite a busy station back in the 60's and 70's but I guess now it is in the hands of Northern Rail.

@@davemiller2306 Ah right, at least we have these great videos to remember it

The locomotive has the standard LGB smoke generator. There is no pulse generator attached to the wheels so I have to adjust the Massoth S settings to make the chuff sounds match the wheel speed.

The motor decoder is a factory fitted LGB decoder. The Massoth S sound decoder is attached to the track power, and has an on/off switch and a volume control under the sand box on top of the locomotive.

I have used Massoth, Seuth and LGB fluid, all work well.

@@davemiller2306 Thanks, Dave. Surprisingly, it looks like Massoth is the best deal.

Hi Nathan, I did this many years ago, I'll see if I can find some info, but basically it was an on-off switch controlled by a Hornby accessory decoder, and two micro switches at the end points to turn off the motor when the end of the traverse was reached.

I have made some dropbox links with a few jpegs in, I think they are public www.dropbox.com/s/ycyv04hvkrjxdyi/traverser_details.JPG?dl=0 www.dropbox.com/s/t0uqr7bmrozjj1v/traverser_circuit.jpg?dl=0

That's quite a monster you are building there! I could do with something similar for my G scale layout.

Thanks Peter. This was done many, many years ago when I was into OO gauge, now moved on to G scale! The slider was a pair of old metal sliding drawer runners, and it was a motor controlled by microswitches, which is okay for a two-bay traverser. It was controlled from a DCC accessory decoder via a DPDT latching relay. I still have the circuit diagram if you are interested, and there might still be a write-up on the RMweb forum if that means anything to you. Cheers, Dave

My German is not that good but I think you are asking how is the sound generated? The motor decoder is a Massoth XL and for the sound a Uhlenbrock sound module connected via SUSI cable. I use the Massoth XL to generate the pulse. Hope this helps you,.

+JohnPW22 I have a write up in a word doc here 1drv.ms/1O711LO

+Dave Miller Oops, I never said than-you! So, belatedly, than-you so much for solving my problem! Excellent info and diagrams. Really appreciate it!

Thanks Kev. It didn't take too long. About a day to build the gantry and another to add the lights, a day or two of fiddling to get the semaphore signals motorised, a couple of hours planning the wiring and a day to fit the Heathcote detectors and test it all. So about a week (not full time, mostly evenings). But I have prototyped most of this stuff before so this excludes the "learning curve" which of course is part of the fun!