Can I bring my model trains with me from the UK

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Sep 4th 2009, 12:11 pm

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Re: Can I bring my model trains with me from the UK

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Originally Posted by made of kent

don't know if we had a transformer thinggy as I am not technical! sorry.

Did the trains run really fast for two seconds, followed by a flash and a room full of smoke? If not then you had a transformer thingy.

Sep 4th 2009, 12:25 pm

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Re: Can I bring my model trains with me from the UK

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I only used 12v as an example. The output voltage needs to be whatever your trainset and slot cars requires, you can tell by looking at your original british transformers.

Actually it looked like you were right with 12v. Most of the sets I saw online were running 12v, except these German Marklin sets that are 16v I think.

Sep 4th 2009, 10:25 pm

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Re: Can I bring my model trains with me from the UK

Marklin make (made?) AC and DC. A lot now are DCC which is usually about 18v.

Sep 4th 2009, 10:47 pm

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Re: Can I bring my model trains with me from the UK

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Originally Posted by lansbury

Regardless of what some people in another part of Portland might think, I moved my model railway stuff over to the US.

I forgot about that!

But I can easily see you in one of these; hobbes, I kept thinking of that photo!

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Originally Posted by hobbes79

Customs guidelines are that you need to be wearing an anorak while holding a thermos flask in order to carry those sorts of items through customs.

Otherwise you may rouse suspicion.

Sep 4th 2009, 10:57 pm

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Re: Can I bring my model trains with me from the UK

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Originally Posted by meauxna

I forgot about that!

But I can easily see you in one of these; hobbes, I kept thinking of that photo!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/cont...dy_120x180.jpg

In Colorado they are known as Foamers rather than Anoraks.

Similar principal.

Sep 4th 2009, 11:15 pm

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Re: Can I bring my model trains with me from the UK

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Originally Posted by meauxna

I forgot about that!

But I can easily see you in one of these; hobbes, I kept thinking of that photo!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/cont...dy_120x180.jpg

I am slowly but surely educating the staff at PDX to the great British hobby of plane spotting. When I have finished that project I will start with Tri-Met and bus spotting.

A chap has to occupy himself somehow.