Garden Railway Forum

Down here in the Great Southern Land there is a move afoot for Australia Post to reduce deliveries from 5 days a week to either 2 or 3, with those of us who want 5 day service having to pay a premium for it!!
So much for postal SERVICE!

Chris Thanks for that. I had a sqwiz inside the boiler and it looks quite clean, any way I did a search on the forum for boiler washout tips and came across a thread of yours from 2008. In it there was a nice drawing of the Mamod steam pipe flow. I looked at it carefully and realized that under my d...

A while ago ( well a couple or years!) I bought an SLk1 on the usual site. When it arrived I tried to steam it using the solid fuel burner and got about enough steam for a couple of sluggish wheel turns. Enthused by the literature on the forum and elsewhere I stripped it down, cleaned all sorts of g...

I must say that this looks excellent. However........what is the cost of the material relative to say buying an injection moulded kit? I know its not all about cost but I did just wonder. Whilst on the material how well do you think it will take paint and will the wheels be too soft for much running...

Peter Butler:100152 wrote:!
  Since taking these pictures I have sprayed them with plastic primer and an acrylic top coat in green..... pictures to follow.

Err.... I though Elephants were supposed to be grey?!!

Scale and gauges aside. I don't see small children as being a problem. I have stock for my line that is 'Daddy's and some more rugged items for the grumper.  It does give us something to do together. Me too. I have some Faller e-train and play-train stuff, some with simple RC fitted that keeps my 3...

vjoneslong5040:97779 wrote:SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM!

Now 3D printing in chocolate sounds fine. But the thought of 3D printing using SPAM is just plain nasty!!

Graeme

The quality of your work never ceases to amaze me. Beautiful wagons!

BTW, is that track code 250 rail spiked to sleepers? If so, what wood are you using to get a combination of “spikability” and resistance to the great Aussie outdoors?

Regards

Rob

Good little units these.   I have 2, one of which I converted to RC using a unit from a cheap car. Just forward/reverse, no speed control but my 3yo grandson thinks it’s great.  I managed to shoehorn  the RC gear (which included increase of batteries to 4.5v) under the running board. Must post a pic...

They look absolutely fantastic St Michael. Well done!!

What have you covered the roof with??

Rob

Thanks all for the advice. I finally found a time when work, daylight and meteorological conditions were in alignment and got to work Blocked gas jet it was. All fixed now. Bertie now boils beautifully. Although I was born in the UK I no consider myself Australian so I hope that when I get my Billy ...

Thanks, Graeme and others for your replies With the boiler loose from the frames, Thankfully it wasn't that bad, just the footplate poped off, so it sounds as though I should definitely work through the gas line first. you can check the control valve by disconnecting the gas line from the jet holder...

Sorry about the length of this post but I hope someone with more live steam experience can give me some advice I have a Roundhouse “Bertie” ( my first gas fired loco) that has only seen 3 outings so far and on the last of those it left the raised section of my track and fell about 2 feet onto some b...

Unfortunately Auntie doesn't let those of us outside the UK use iPlayer which is a pity!
regards

Rob

Forgive my ignorance but why Barn? Was that the maker, do they look like barns, or was one used as a barn??

Rob

Chris Cairns:88463 wrote:No, when the Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway was built in 1925 there was road access to Fort William.

However you are very close.

Chris Cairns.

Close in time, place or theme, or is that asking too much?

Rob

Chris Cairns:88398 wrote:Like the last railway, this line was built as an industrial railway and never carried passengers. It was isolated from the national rail network, and initially there was no road access either.

What was I?

Chris Cairns.

Locahber narow gauge railway?

Rob

Queensland operates High Speed tilt trains on 3 foot 6inches, which some would regard as narrow gauge. However in both Queensland and Western Australia most of the rail network is 3 foot 6, with "standard gauge" feeder lines from other states. :) Or is that a somewhat xenophobic view of th...

Thanks All. Worm now off. Heated with soldering iron as suggested, Good thing you steered me away from the blowtorch!! Didn't try the Drontal :lol: Didn't think about going 7.2v. This particular model has a weight in the boiler which is EXACTLY the size of 2 C cells, which I took as a cue. I suspect...

Hi, seems the only time I ever de-lurk on this forum is to ask a question, however I am in the middle of a conversion project that I may be able to post about, if I can ever actually do it. I recently bought a Faller E-Train track powered steam outline loco. I am trying to convert it to battery powe...