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I got dizzy following the Loco round that first bend.

You have the perfect blank canvas to start in.

I enjoyed watching, so not bad for a first attempt. I never manage to remember to put a title on my video clips.
Well Done, I give it a Seven!

And Here!

A man after my own heart - Bricks for buffer stops!.

I will watch with interest. I have just bought a Bertie and I had also
thought of fitting a tender.

Great Video. Was yours taken on Saturday?. There are some locos on yours that I can't remember seeing on Sunday.

I went to the Elsecar Garden Railway show at the weekend and came home with a new Roundhouse Bertie. To the OVLR it will be No 11. After running R/C live steam and battery locos and free running battery locos, No 11 is a different thing altogether. I am still on the very steep part of the learning c...

Video of the running layouts at this years Elsecar Garden Railway Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJKyK9iRGig

Love the look of that little engine. Where did it come from and what powers it? The small green loco is a Garden Railway Specialist generic Hunslet kit with their 0-4-0 chassis which can be bought with either 45mm or 32mm gauge. The chassis has a MFA como motor . My loco is battery powered 10 AA re...

Great video. Stills tell a story but the video sees how it all works together.

I am interested. I use peco O gauge fine scale track in the shed as sidings and at
the moment I solder a short section of SM 32 track to the finescale track
making sure that the inside and tops are flush with each other.

I have just looked at Andy's site http://andyquirot.co/sales/loco-sound-board/ It looks as if the power in should not be a contant 12v but the variable voltage being used to control the speed of the loco. There is also a set up process, one just listening to the sound and one where a specific voltag...

Something isn't right here . If you are putting 12v across an 8 ohm speaker there will be a 1.5 amp current (basic ohms law) and it will get warm (Batteries will not last too long either). If the speaker is connected to the a sound unit that is putting 12 v across the speaker there may be something ...

I found that after I had decided to go 32mm that there were no very local groups that used 32mm. One thing I had hoped to do was visit other railways, this is now only possible with a relatively long car journey. I had also hoped that there would be a local group of the 16 mm Association but to my g...

What a great excuse for building a branch to the plum and apple trees.

Rik[/quote] You're too kind Rik, but this really wouldn't have happened without your advice and oh so helpful blogs.:) The steeple cab loco is designed to accommodate 2 AA batteries also. The problem is that with the space being split effectively into 2 small compartments, with the motor in the midd...

'making the best of a bad job'  is more me  i think. Has anyone got any advice on two things, 1) working lever frames and 2) a regner Vincent ?( run time etc ) I regularly get thirty five mins plus from my Vincent. You have to watch the water levels though as the gas lasts longer than "one fil...

Looks lovely. I will need to build one. I was thinking more along the lines of shuttering and poured concrete; is there a commercial product that I can face the inside of the  shuttering with to cast a brick or stone effect? Draw the mortar courses on the inside of the shuttering with a Hot Weld Gl...

Peter Butler:112610 wrote:Hi Graham,  the bevel gears are available from www.motion.co.uk and I can recommend their service highly.  Based in Oxfordshire they supply very quickly and offer advice via their e-mail too... info@motionco.co.uk

Thanks for the info Peter.