Some pics of modifying Caradoc

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:25 pm

sounds like fun

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:25 pm

What! Ian didn't say anthing about an IRA terroist!

You know that when your all comming round it will be only me at home and i'll never hear the end of it off mum if the house and garden got trashed!

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:32 pm

laalratty wrote:You know that when your all comming round it will be only me at home and i'll never hear the end of it off mum if the house and garden got trashed!

LMAO

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:46 pm

This is really where im going to seem out of touch with the modern world etc etc, but what does LMAO stand for

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:48 pm

Laughing my a**e off!

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:55 pm

That would explain it, but still dosn't stop my concern for the condition of my railway by saturday morning!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:23 pm

Don't worry Laalratty. I had an open day for my first line last year. About a dozen people turned up to play trains on my 15 yard long railway! We had great fun, and my mum didn't mind a bit (she actully liked it because everyone was thanking her for making wounderful victoria sponges for them

).

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:26 pm

i will have to have one sometime down here... a few passing loops r in there.

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:28 pm

I have had open days before admittedly not 12 people, its the "binge drinking, IRA terrorist" that i'm worried about!

bungle80a · Post by **bungle80a** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:53 pm

Hey cecil, you forgot the mad burger flipper coming down to the Afonglas and Nant Llywydd Rly also!

How level is the line ratty? I'm prob bringing my mamod!
<-----------------This One----------------------
She has a welsh name, and this is the first time she'll have run on a rly with a welsh name since I got her!

Incidentally, what is the Welsh to English translation on Afonglas and nant Llywydd Rly? I tried usin the net translators, and my sketchy memory of learning welsh at uni, and came out with something like 'River (Afon) Blue(Glas) One licked Tooth (Nant Llywydd). What does it actually mean?

Bungle80a
(The Mad Burger Flipper)

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:37 pm

I only figured that out about a couple of weeks back. I think it was you (silly billy) who put it in brackets next to the shorthand.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:38 pm

Yey bungle your back. We thought the new house had eaten you.

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:13 pm

bungle80a wrote:Hey cecil, you forgot the mad burger flipper coming down to the Afonglas and Nant Llywydd Rly also!

How level is the line ratty? I'm prob bringing my mamod!

She has a welsh name, and this is the first time she'll have run on a rly with a welsh name since I got her!

Incidentally, what is the Welsh to English translation on Afonglas and nant Llywydd Rly? I tried usin the net translators, and my sketchy memory of learning welsh at uni, and came out with something like 'River (Afon) Blue(Glas) One licked Tooth (Nant Llywydd). What does it actually mean?

Bungle80a
(The Mad Burger Flipper)

Afonglas is a play on words for Ravenglass!!!! (Plus the estuary at Ravenglass does look particualy blue in most light, Glas is the word for blue
The Nant Llywyd means grey ravine (I hope, it came from a welsh dictionary) and is a very good description of my heavily sloping, paving slab based garden when the rain water off the street is pouring down the hill
The railway is about as flat as something that is not flat at all Ruling gradient 1 in 60, but I have some 1 in 70 on some sharp curves, the mamod could have a fun time (well you won't be short on excersise as you chase it uphill and downdale!)

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:07 pm

my first line, due to some wrong calculations, had a steep gradiant on a curve. Because of which, I only ever ran trains in an anti-clockwise (up the gradient) direction. Surprisingly, the mamods managed to cope ever time.

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:08 pm

there may be hope for bungles mamod then!

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:13 pm

might have to bring marvin over and try him out

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:15 pm

Yeah, and my mamods don't have any form of control apart from the reverser (I curently don't have the time to take my engines apart to fit them if regulators. Also, my mum would have a fit when all the oil came out onto her carpet!)

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:29 pm

Matt, hav a go at making a exhaust regulator. That may give you a lot more control.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:30 pm

What's one of those then?

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:33 pm

ah, its something very simple that ristricts the flow of steam leaving the exhaust. I think theres a post about it somewhere on here...

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