Garden Railway Forum

Has that engine been "weathered" with paint, or has it come by it appearance honestly? It looks great, what a nice engine. Impressive amount of tinkering to get her going, she must have some miles.

Beautiful. I wish I had somewhere to run my steam engine. That railway looks great.

Good news! You CAN use batteries.

Bad News! I personally don't know what kind of battery would be best, but I 'm sure someone will be along shortly to sort it out for you. Good luck

*I used to run OO scale model engines with the leftover flat chemical batteries from polaroid film packs.

I couldn't agree more. I don't wish to criticize those who do try to be as accurate to a prototype as possible, but I am not one of those people. My tastes range more towards the generic engines and rolling stock, for one because fretting over scale accuracy makes me feel bored, and also because I f...

not sure. they have always made stock over scale Hmmmmn! IP made some Ffesty rolling stock overscale to try to match the over wide Roundhouse Taliesin – and got pilloried for it. They do not 'always' make stuff overscale. In the case of the quarryman's coach, the dimensions of the IP model were tak...

Much better :) It still sounds a little off in reverse but in forward almost perfect. Actually it sounds great. I wasn't sure about chuff pipes at first but now I highly approve of them. Now when I watch videos of engines without chuff pipes I feel like there is something wrong with the sound. You s...

I for one would like to see a photograph of this engine. Also around the web there are some discussions about burner building, it looks like it's tricky to get right but building one isn't necessarily difficult. maybe some kind of extra long radiant burner would work or perhaps some baffling in the ...

Nice little collection of wagons there. I like the planned layout with the loop and spur track.

Why do you think my mamods got painted GWR green!! As far as my wife knows my Countess is just one of those mamods I have added bits to.... :evil: A while ago I bought a bass guitar from a friend, and not long after that I bought another guitar as well. I really only saw fit to mention the first on...

My wife thought she had caught me looking at naughty pictures because for a while I would quickly click off the internet if I heard her coming into the room, sometimes not quick enough. She found out by using the "history" function that I had instead been looking at endless videos on Youtu...

Hey, there it is. Thanks Shane. You're right about building the engine, the instructions are well-written, and the parts fit together very precisely, so it's probably the kind of project anyone could do, but still complicated enough that there is a major sense of accomplishment to it. I would recomm...

I made this video of my new Roundhouse Billy which I made from a kit (You can see pictures o it being built in "projects") It took me several months but I am pleased with how it turned out. The video is terrible but I was running the engine in the basement. There is noise from the furnace ...

What type of locomotive is that? I love it.

The chuffer really does sound good when the engine is loaded up. I think the most appreciated feature of the engine when I brought it to work was the chuffing sound it made. People didn't seem to believe it was actually steam-powered until they heard the sound it made.

I've seen that video. That is amazing. I'm not about to try riding behind the locomotive, I agree with "other Keith" that it would probably damage the rails and definitely the little wagons. What was actually going through my head was how many little wagons the engine could handle around t...

Just wondering if anyone knows just how much a Roundhouse engine or one of similar size/boiler pressure will pull? My friend has a Mercer traction engine and has "youtubed" a video of it pulling his five year old daughter around on a little wagon. Yesterday I had my "Billy" set u...

I can't help you identify it, but I thought you would like to know that I spent 10 seconds or so looking at it trying to decide if it was real, or a model. Finally I realised it was sitting on brass rails with plastic sleepers, but that is an excellent photograph and a really good model, whatever it...

Indeed. At least the toys won't be set on fire. Oily is the least of their worries.

I would really like one of those VoR summer coaches, I think that might be next. I'm satisfied with the level of detail on the IP wagons, I don't want to over-do the "scale" aspect, because I am not really trying to "model" anything. I just want a little steam railway to enjoy in...

That looks quite nice. I will be adding lamp irons to them, I have a set of three of those little lamps from chuffed2bits which light up when the chimney is twisted. The locomotive and its little train have a job to do in the summer, which precludes putting any interior details in the wagons, but af...