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Posted: **Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:35 pm**

Oily Rag wrote:Today I was at the South Devon Garden Railway Group club track at Buckfastleigh station in South Devon. Amongst the very friendly bunch of local members I met Tag Gorton of Garden Rail fame and Alan from Dream Steam.

Tag brought along the latest IOM coach from Accucraft and I can confirm it is as good as it looks!

Alan had a Mamod/MSS loco fitted with his latest upgrades.
I can't say what they are now. But I can say that the loco was amazing!
It pulled a rake of 12 Mamod wagons around the track with ease.
And at a nice steady pace Not only that but it looked fantastic!

I want one.

Eric

go on

tell us

Posted: **Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:36 pm**

Alans mods are great Im happy with what ive done to my mss has turned it into a powerful little engine

Posted: **Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:09 pm**

Oily Rag wrote:

go on ;)

tell us :twisted:[/quote]

It's just R&D at the moment, so it may or may not come to market.
But things could be looking up for the lowly SL1

Eric[/quote]

Tell us...and well giv some reports back to Alan about what we think. Theres some research

Posted: **Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:22 am**

The big question is, will these mods rival 'The Worlds Most Powerful Mamod' owned by Cecil?

Posted: **Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:28 am**

Columbine's having some of that.

Posted: **Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:11 am**

mhlr wrote:Columbine's having some of that.

And COS

Posted: **Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:42 pm**

Is this the steam exhaust resonator condenser thing in the smokebox too?

Ya gotta love Mamod Locos, they are crying out for all those little extra bits to be added!

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:23 pm**

any news on this mystery engine then yet?

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:24 pm**

bungle80a wrote:The big question is, will these mods rival 'The Worlds Most Powerful Mamod' owned by Cecil?

Thank you Bungle
See vid
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cyz-zjHEwxs
Dreamsteam Eat you heart out.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:35 pm**

The thing with your one is that it looks the same really, and that means even if Dream Steam beat the record, that has how many add-ons? Black Beauty is unique, apart from now when it's like all other mamods (leaky).

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:47 pm**

And let us not forget the tweaking done to those open wagons.

Dream Steam loco is a commercial development so you will need to wait for the official announcement just like Accucraft, Roundhouse, etc.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:06 pm**

The only tweaking is a set of thrust washers to stop the ends of the axles binding on tight corners. That and centre buffers and a lick of paint. Thats it!

Posted: **Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:02 pm**

That's ok, but that's not a proper chuff. You wana hear the double failrlies or a pair of englands climb up past my house, pure magic.

Posted: **Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:58 pm**

or an engine going over the steepest part of the NYMR (sounds great and the resulting sparks sometimes start grass fires)

Posted: **Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:28 pm**

Oily Rag wrote:I think Alan got up to 22 wagons before the loco wheels started slipping. :D Not just lightweight open wagons either! :P

I expect there will be someting on show at Exeter if not before.

What a brilliant "chuff" on that loco in the video!

One of the best I've heard apart from the real thing like this-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-gees9 ... re=related

Eric

Any chance of a video alan. How do your wagons compare in weight to steel mamod open wagons.

Posted: **Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:05 pm**

Oily Rag wrote:I expect there will be someting on show at Exeter if not before.

I will look forward to that, I want to get my ol' Columbine into shape to be able to actually work well on my line!!!

Posted: **Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:01 pm**

Im an appretice. Trust me Im used to it. P.S Long live Sparkes Engineering!

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:07 pm**

ptlrcecil wrote: Any chance of a video alan. How do your wagons compare in weight to steel mamod open wagons.

No video but a pic or two from today's run at Buckfast.

She took 13 wagons and coaches plus tender full of water today, but I have had her pulling 20 plus tender full of water, with the ore wagons full of granite from the path. All rolling stock is always Mamod/MSS of steel construction.

Alan

www.dream-steam.com

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:32 pm**

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:52 pm**

WOW!!!!! ME WANT!

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