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- Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:08 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8560
Re: Next overhaul project....
Aren’t all railway locomotives “traction engines” if one is being really, really annoyingly technical and pedantic?
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Loco nameplates
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2130
Re: Loco nameplates
I'm after getting some nameplates made. English is funny. When someone says "I'm after getting some nameplates", most of us understand they mean "I'm in search of some nameplates". However, in Ireland as well as Newfoundland in Canada, it would mean "I got some nameplates&q...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 3:08 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Making "steam" from an atomizer for making mist
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8456
Re: Making "steam" from an atomizer for making mist
Some of you must, by now, be aware of the models being built and modified by Kyle of TRS Trains in Wales. His "smoke" installations using miniature atomizers on OO scale trains, steam AND diesel, are absolutely brilliant. He's presently working on a cylinder draincock effect to go along wi...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 4:19 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: DVLR No. 5, River Ore.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9733
Re: DVLR No. 5, River Ore.
Charming little engine, and looks very nice indeed in your blue livery.
It's also nice to hear from you again Zack. I'm pleased you're still doing model railways and congratulations on your PHD. A solid bit of work, that.
Keith
It's also nice to hear from you again Zack. I'm pleased you're still doing model railways and congratulations on your PHD. A solid bit of work, that.
Keith
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 6:07 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Class 33
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3382
Re: Semi-scale BR: Class 33
Very clever. A unique railway and strangely, more realistic than most
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 12:17 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: SSP slomo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3848
Re: SSP slomo
I recommend a "momentum wagon" as well. I am a massive supporter of the idea. I personally like it when the train has momentum, not just the locomotive. I run my "Billy" with manual control, and I find the van makes it run more realistically, as it makes the engine work a bit to ...
- Fri May 26, 2023 7:11 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Little brass handwheels
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3930
Re: Little brass handwheels
Thanks guys. Will look into these options.
- Tue May 23, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Little brass handwheels
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3930
Little brass handwheels
Does anyone know if there is a business who supplies little brass handwheels, like the ones found on locomotives and in ships? I mean the kind upon which one of the spokes sticks out farther than the others. I think one of those would look nice on a Roundhouse loco in lieu of the solid brass knob on...
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:43 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Little Wonder
- Replies: 64
- Views: 20388
Re: Little Wonder
I really like how you've a set of rails on part of your workbench. It looks like a real erecting shop!
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:07 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: TVT - It followed Me Home.....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4002
Re: TVT - It followed Me Home.....
My Dad, Brother and I drove down to America a few years ago to see some steam engines. The main attraction was in West Virginia: an entire logging railway restored with "Shay" locomotives, and the log wagons built into open passenger carriages. It is brilliant. On the way, we stopped at an...
- Mon Jan 16, 2023 6:08 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Kara,s figures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3702
Re: Kara,s figures
Thanks! I had forgotten who sold them to me. I like them!
- Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:09 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Kara,s figures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3702
Re: Kara,s figures
I actually prefer the less realistic figures like Kara's or Rob Bennet's "Busy Bodies". I have trouble putting it into words, but I find the caricature-like nature of the figures has a way of making them seem less robotic and immobile than the super-realistic kind. My attention doesn't lin...
- Fri Jan 13, 2023 9:00 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Bassett Lowke Midland Compound in gauge 1
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4295
Re: Bassett Lowke Midland Compound in gauge 1
What a handsome machine. I really could watch her run all day. Thanks for posting that.
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 12:51 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: An interesting North American subject
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5108
Re: An interesting North American subject
Well, I am hoping I've got the MDC engine running well enough. I can't afford a Bachmann one (!) but the model is running very nicely now if I do say so. Hopefully my Dad agrees. It's his hobby, not mine. I used the North West Short Line regearing kit and I must say it has improved the model. As is ...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:11 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: An interesting North American subject
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5108
Re: An interesting North American subject
What problem have you encountered with the HO shay? Is it a Bachmann Spectrum one? No, unfortunately not. It's one of those old ones marketed variously by "MDC/Roundhouse" in America. I think it was probably designed in the 1980s, maybe even before that. It has bogies that are driven by a...
- Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:09 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: An interesting North American subject
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5108
Re: An interesting North American subject
I like the side tank and the tender version, both of which look they could be bashed from a Regner. Do be careful if you're exploring that page, by the way. I hadn't heard of all the manufacturers and, being a librarian, clicked on "Dewey" - the page I came across definitely had nothing t...
- Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:11 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: An interesting North American subject
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5108
An interesting North American subject
I have been busy repairing one of my father's locomotives. He prefers North American subjects, and the locomotive I am repairing for him is a "Shay" type geared locomotive in HO scale. While looking for parts online, I encountered this article about a fascinating little engine made b6 a co...
- Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:41 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Eric build
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4171
Re: Eric build
Beautiful work.
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:49 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Alternative Power
- Topic: 16 mm Scale internal combustion locomotive
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9350
Re: 16 mm Scale internal combustion locomotive
That little engine is impressively smooth and quiet. Usually those little IC engines are deafening and require a lot of reduction gearing. This one is really nice.
- Sat Nov 05, 2022 3:05 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Coal fired Garratt K1
- Replies: 63
- Views: 24618
Re: Coal fired Garratt K1
I am becoming concerned at this point that if this locomotive acquires any more complications, it will become self-aware and begin causing mischief. Anti-human mischief.