Blogger has enabled the upload of video and I thought my most recent arrival would make a good test subject (sorry for the poor quality - I will see if I can do a better job and edit it later). This is Deltic, still running in. I didn't realise it came with directional lights (probably should have since this seems to be standard on all new diesels these days) and to be honest, I am a little bit disappointed. I don't know that it will be operational with no train all that often so the red will have to go. The white is quite bright and there will need to be something done to remove the inner glow in front of the cab. At the slowest speed I could run it at on pure DC the lights were out. Once it has run in for the hour each way, and I have checked the lubrication, I will stick a chip in it and see how slow it will go on DCC.
As one of those "it doesn't really fit my plans but gee whiz" locos I am very pleased with it. I do model LMR so it is appropriate (which tends to boggle the mind a little as I always associated Deltics with the ECML) and I have seen the real beast so it was snapped up when it was announced. And here for Christmas too.
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