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The kinks were steam related too (last of the good old fashioned steam powered trains)

The Penrhyn quarry railway had de wintons, I beleive dinorwic also had a couple of vertically boilered locos, I could scarcely imagine them hauling anything but slate wagons The regner max, mamod brunel etc are of course too big, these are far more like it http://www.sidestreet.info/locos/loco12.htm...

I can't go this year but I will do everything in my power to get there next year, hoping to meet up, run a loco or two

I think you are referring to the smokebox saddle

Ah yes, I saw that program, I remember one of the drivers mending the cylinder gasket or with a crisp packet or something, an ingenewative people!

Or maybe a section for small geared engines in general?

I share that sentiment also! I wouldn't have got into 16mm if it were all electrickery, steam is steam and nothing can imitate it

Boccherinis minuetto for string quintet

Peter...
Thats you at around the 1:17:00 mark I beleive  :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEbpCwUAY3Q

The original rear buffer-beam seems to have been bent upwards so the previous buffer slots could be used to hold the extended body on. Yes, my mamod had been modified in the same way, a big headache to sort out and make sense of, so I appreciate how much work you've had to put in! :thumbleft: :hell...

Heres an interesting merlin...
http://narrowgaugegardenrails.myfreefor ... ut378.html
A real pity he only made the one, I generally like smaller locos but this is a big exception  :love10:  :laughing3:

That beats me, my low profile loco (still on the drawing board) is 95mm to the top of the chimney

markoteal:123580 wrote:Including drivers?

full size or model?  :lol:  In either case, I suppose sans crew

Simple, just post piccies of your lowest 16mm scale loco and quote the height, the person with the lowest loco wins!

I have a suggestion for homemade points, not the most prototypical but bear with me, turntables on a curved section of track so that by rotating 180 degrees one changes direction, I got the idea from the lartigue monorailway where actual pionts are impossible, an archaic idea, but it might just work

I also model in 009, but I don't take it as seriously as say, 00 or p4 modellers do, in the latest 'railway modeller', for instance, there is reviewed a 00 a4 pacific for no less than £400!  :shock: I would never pay anything like that for my 009 locos I think they get a bit too hung up on getting e...

A similar setup to the valve gear on Dolgoch , but the other way around

Here is how the valve gear worked

Have you tried the online archive of the national railway museum? The actual drawings are not available online but I think you might be able to get hold of a photocopy from them

Yes, there is an expansion link, with a VERY short valve spindle actuating rod after it (the valve spindle and piston rod are of course at different ends of the cylinder), you are quite correct in saying the connecting rods are outboard of the cranks a la Penrhyn hunslets, to accomodate for the widt...