Garden Railway Forum

Thanks Dave, I used Scenic Rust:- http://www.deluxematerials.com/scenicrailwayrust.html

Charles Parsons --- the steam turbine, only 1 major moving part and still
being manufactured and in use throughout the world 130 years later.

Can you put all the R/C gear onto the loco after all this is what Roundhouse do with Mildred,
which is the same loco but without the tender.

The bell mod to the sound module did only take the addition of a couple of wires and a switch, however it was incredibly fiddly to do as I had to take apart the micro connector which fits into the sound module to add the wire which Roundhouse had cut off at the connector as it wasn't needed. It's so...

Absolutely Fantastic, I especially like the Windermere Kettle.

I have owned my Roundhouse Criccieth Castle for 3 years now, it’s a lovely loco and the first one that I bought when the garden railway bug bit me. But there have always been 5 little niggling things that I've never liked about it, so now, I decided, is the time to address these problems. First. The...

pauly:96961 wrote:Heroes steam engine was a simple novelty

It was a serious invention to demonstrate a theory. I think for the time (Circa AD50) it was probably seen more as magic than a novelty.

Hero's Steam Turbine

It showed for the first time ever that the power of
steam could be harnessed to do work.

I like the fancy boiler top and funnel, is this going to be an Emett
style De-Winton

Eric Pickles takes a vacation

I was thinking more along the lines of having the whole of the funnel turning for the speed control.

Interesting as I'm having similar ideas for one of the Essel Engineering chassis that I bought of Ebay recently.

Batteries in the boiler and turn the funnel for speed control.

OO ARRR! there be a JCB Fast Track, range 1500, load tubes 1 and 2

the cylinder heads would look nice black wouldn't they

Or do them Penrhyn style with the recess in white.

I hope I didn't get too carried away with the extra details

Please do, it's what makes your locomotive unique to you, you have a lovely
loco there, when finances permit I will be building one from a kit to add to the
rest of my Roundhouse collection.

MDLR:96448 wrote:It doesn't: you have somebody called a SIGNALMAN who operates the points and signals for you!

So it doesn't actually fit within the scope of what I'm trying to achieve then.

MDLR:96412 wrote:Wire in tube and a crank at the bottom of the post would've worked JUST as well............................

How does this work automatically ?

I take your point about working signals and your project is very impressive but it also sounds expensive per signal. It shouldn't cost too much as I'm designing and building this for my own use and using standard parts. I suppose the main cost is the time it takes to make it all and modifying the s...