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- Fri Jun 09, 2023 12:17 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: SSP slomo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4407
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: 4391
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: 4391
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: 21982
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: 4458
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: 3968
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: 3968
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: 4841
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: 5694
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: 5694
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: 5694
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: 5694
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: 4691
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: 9957
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: 26080
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.
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 5:28 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Kerr Stewart 4420 - Live steam and 3D printing
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27799
Re: Kerr Stewart 4420 - Live steam and 3D printing
This is brilliant. I have to admit I found the idea outlandish at first, but now I see it and that genius boiler design, I am firmly of the opinion that this thing is going to be a masterpiece.
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 1:52 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Smash Hits
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3765
Re: Semi-scale BR: Smash Hits
I enjoyed everything about that.
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 9:40 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: TVT - Dylanesque
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9639
Re: TVT - Dylanesque
,... although a British built saddle tank with Walschaerts valve gear is a rare beast in any period. There's your inner fine-scale modeller talking again. The fact is, British-built saddle tanks with (simplified) Walschaert's valve-gear are exceedingly common. It's just that they are almost all abo...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:55 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: New Beginning for 2022
- Replies: 44
- Views: 16676
Re: New Beginning for 2022
What is the advantage to air-operated pointwork? I have heard of it before, but have always thought it sounded a bit "Rube Goldberg" if you don't mind me saying so. Although I must admit I can see it being more weather-resistant than electrics would be.
- Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:58 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Newcomer Roundhouse Billy Build
- Replies: 58
- Views: 19387
Re: Newcomer Roundhouse Billy Build
I also build aero models and have to agree that the vibration in a live steam engine is more like a gentle rocking, if anything, compared to what a model aeroplane or helicopter can do to a servo. Your servos endured more vibration in the car driving home from the hobby shop than they will in a mode...