Quote from: Fardap on January 26, 2026, 11:49:07 AMThat said turning off Ai everywhere I can, when they give the option, is the first thing I do. Frustrates the heck out of me that 'they' think they know what I want where all I actually want is a choice ON or OFF - It cannot be that difficult to understand to designers... can it?

Designers that do this do not think about what "you" want. They only think about what "they" want. They just want to show off how clever "they" are. Just my POV.

Quote from: Moonglum on February 08, 2026, 04:10:08 PMI don't think that I have ever heard it all - but rather pleasant Martin. I did initially think that I had seen them appearing on one of the CBS samplers (FYHWR etc.) but then thought I was mistaken. I wasn't, they appear on "Rockbuster" released in 1970 with a young Arnold Schwarzenegger on the cover. I suspect one of my school chums had the album.

Like the Island samplers, great sources of music.

Tim

It's well worth listening to the album version Tim @Moonglum .

I had the self titled album and Choice Quality Stuff (aka It's a Big, Bad Beautiful Day).

I don't think that I have ever heard it all - but rather pleasant Martin. I did initially think that I had seen them appearing on one of the CBS samplers (FYHWR etc.) but then thought I was mistaken. I wasn't, they appear on "Rockbuster" released in 1970 with a young Arnold Schwarzenegger on the cover. I suspect one of my school chums had the album.

Like the Island samplers, great sources of music.

Tim

Not heard that in ages

It's a Beautiful  Day Live in 1970

IABD represented American psychedelic folk rock at its best I think.

I always loved White Bird, it has long been one of my favourite tracks, although this live offering is not the band at their best (or perhaps it's the live recording that lets it down).

Formed by Davis La Flamme (violinist)with his wife Linda on keyboards originally I believe.
I think this is Pattie Santos on vocals and Hal Wagonet on Bass.

Quote from: Newportnobby on February 08, 2026, 02:41:43 PMI'm so fed up with the bombardment of mails from Rails of Sheffield. It wouldn't be so bad if they asked my preferred gauge. I could unsubscribe but something may get missed so I guess I'll have to put up with it

Have to agree, 2 or 3 a day of which I have zero interest in at least 95% of it. It can't be that hard to be able to add scale preference.

A couple of things..

Firstly another instance of lying by Royal Mail. I was told my parcel from the NGS was to be delivered Sat between 10.35 and 13.35. Needless to say- nothing

I'm so fed up with the bombardment of mails from Rails of Sheffield. It wouldn't be so bad if they asked my preferred gauge. I could unsubscribe but something may get missed so I guess I'll have to put up with it

As @PLD says, different items/designs of stock may well have different sized wheels, that in itself is not a cause of derailment.

You need to be looking for problems with:

mixed/different wheelsets on the same model (ie. someone's fiddled about and removed/replaced wheels incorrectly)

a wheelset that's been pushed out of the pinpoint axle bearings by bad handling or storage
any back-to-back problems

stiff bogies not swivelling freely

coupling droop causing the pin to catch on the rails

couplings too high and catching buffers on curves

dog-legs or "missed" rail joints

All the wheels on a single vehicle should be the same size but they don't have to be the same on every vehicle in the train.

The right size is whatever was intended for that vehicle which  could be any of a range from 6mm - 7.5mm depending on the type.
From your description it is a specific issue confined to one coach so leave the others were alone. Far more likely is an axle out of gauge or something catching stoping a bogie pivoting or if it has pivoting couplings those sticking.

I have been slowly (very slowly) building my layout and collection of rolling stock over the last 3 years and have just stumbled across an issue I have not noticed until now. All my coaches have run beautifully until the other night when one kept derailing at two specific places. Upon investigating, it was then i noticed that some of my coaches have different sized wheels to the others, which I think may have been the cause of the derailing. It's probably just luck that I haven't had coaches with different sized wheels coupled together before.

Therefore I guess the correct action is to change the wheels on some of the coaches so they all match. However, which size is the 'standard ' size? I am going to be very untechnical here and say I have some with small wheels and some with larger wheels!

All coaches are from Farish but guess some are a lot older than others, not sure if that is a factor.

Any help or advice would be appreciated. My layout is a preserved line so I do change the rakes about so I wasn't planning on keeping specific sets of coaches together all the time.