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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Ost-West-Express - Summer 1995 - Bruxelles-Midi -> Moscow–Belorussky

Here's my first video of a complete Ost-West-Express train formation! This is the original picture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157299819@N02/52329486814/in/photostream/

It nicely matches exactly what is provided on vagonweb.cz. I eventually managed to have every single passenger car required for this formation.

Description	Reference	In stock
DB BR 112	Roco 63555	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABm	ACME 55136	✔
UZ WLABmee	LS Models 48023, 48211	✔
PKP WLABd	Roco 6200062	✔
PKP Bcdmnu	ACME 55055	✔
PKP Bdmnu	ACME 55135	✔
PKP Bdmnu	ACME 55135	✔
PKP Bdmnu	ACME 55135	✔
PKP Bdmnu	ACME 55135	✔
PKP Bcdmnu	ACME 55055	✔
PKP WLABd	Roco 6200062	✔

Here's the running formation:

Saturday, November 9, 2024

PKP EU07-433 - part 1

I purchased this PKP model for several formations for the Ost West Express. It's a brand I didn't know about and from what I could read, they might have some issues during the manufacturing regarding lighting.

In any case, I got the model and only realized later on that the same store - modelcenter.pl - has the related decoder. But it was too late. Later on, as I was looking for a sound decoder for my MÁV Class V63, I found this vendor: digitools.hu. I bought two sound decoders, one for the PKP EU07 and one for the MÁV V63 from this store: vasutmodell.com.

As it turns out, the speaker is already installed. You can see the 2 black wires right above the decoder going underneath the main board. Under the black wires, it is written SP- and SP+.

I tried to change the DCC address with JMRI, but DigiTools does not have profiles in JMRI, even though it is a recognized manufacturer by the DCC standards - CV8 = 75. I tried to use a NMRA generic profile, but it didn't work.

I then tried to use the engine with the default address #3 and the engine did response to DCC commands. And the sound did work which confirmed that the speaker was indeed installed at the factory. That said, there must be a short somewhere because the DCC-EX would reboot and restart after a couple of seconds. Thankfully, everything is protected with DCC Concept modules.

More investigation required ...

Sunday, November 3, 2024

BR 112 Roco - part 3

As planned, I ordered a tiny sound decoder trying to make everything fit in there. I chose ESU 58820 LokSound 5 Micro DCC Decoder:

Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of how all of this fits in the engine, but it did! And I loaded a ESU sound project. A video soon ...

I then moved on to adding the details. Back with my BB 16500 Vitrains, I struggled quite a bit to add details and found that my pliers of low quality were not doing the job. I upgraded with Japan-made tooling ...

A couple of days later, I finished installing the details:

This machine is now complete!

Monday, October 7, 2024

BR 112 Roco - part 2

And now the related videos:

I have also ordered a micro decoder to see if it could fit in there, so I can get sound too ...

Sunday, October 6, 2024

BR 112 Roco - part 1

I got a BR 112 from Roco for the Ost-West Express:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cfl1969/25239235070/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cfl1969/50655254168/

The model is Roco 63555:

The model is very heavy and analog. Let's open it and see what we can do to convert it to DCC:

There's a NEM 625 plug and very little room for the decoder or for a speaker. I found a sound project on ESU for BR 110, that seems to also apply to BR 112:

I tried to fit a ESU LokSound 5 but it does not fit above the main board. I ordered a ESU Micro and we will see if I can fit it in there with a speaker. For now, I installed a basic ESU LokPilot: