My Garden Railway still to built
Since my last entry I continued with the work on the HGLW wagons and loco.
In the last picture you could see my firstly built flat wagon. For these I still need the couplers.
Beside it you could see my newest project. It will be a van for mail and valuable goods. The base are the wagon bodies of two Faller E/Playtrain open wagons. For the chassis I will use one of the Faller chassis.
I hope that I could fill up the area around the pond with soil in the next few weeks, and than to continue with construction of the trackbed.
Markus
In the last picture you could see my firstly built flat wagon. For these I still need the couplers.
Beside it you could see my newest project. It will be a van for mail and valuable goods. The base are the wagon bodies of two Faller E/Playtrain open wagons. For the chassis I will use one of the Faller chassis.
I hope that I could fill up the area around the pond with soil in the next few weeks, and than to continue with construction of the trackbed.
Markus
Today I started with the foundation for my garden railway.
Some of you will recognize, that it looks different to the plan
from last year.
These is due to the decission from my wife and me to built or buy
a house within the next two years.
Today I constructed a oval, in the near future I will add to termini. So when in mood the trains can go roundy round, or from point to point
For the foundation I was inspired by Zachs foundation of his
DVLR.
And here the reworked layout scheme.
Markus
Some of you will recognize, that it looks different to the plan
from last year.
These is due to the decission from my wife and me to built or buy
a house within the next two years.
Today I constructed a oval, in the near future I will add to termini. So when in mood the trains can go roundy round, or from point to point
For the foundation I was inspired by Zachs foundation of his
DVLR.
And here the reworked layout scheme.
Markus
Today I used the sunny day.
A week ago I laid the missing track of the oval and
then my little HGLW loco did its first run.
So I laid the foundation for the addition on the right side..
Then I did some greenery in the oval of track. And because it
was still sunny I decided to run my Ragleth for the first time
on proper track.
I made the preparation. To minimize the steam up time I used boiled water.
Then I lighted the burner and after a few minutes the
steam pressure was sufficent for the run.
After the first run I decided to refill the engine, but when I
tried to relight the loco the gas jet was blocked. I will
sort these out when I got some muse.
My conclusions:
1. Live Steam is fun
2. I need a Summerland Chuffer. sp that the loco will sound like
a big loco
3. I need a Goodall Valve
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Kessel-Nachspeis ... 3cd61504ab
4. exchange the gas jet
5. hopefully I could lay the track on the extension in the next days.
I hope to take some pictures in the next few days.
Markus
A week ago I laid the missing track of the oval and
then my little HGLW loco did its first run.
So I laid the foundation for the addition on the right side..
Then I did some greenery in the oval of track. And because it
was still sunny I decided to run my Ragleth for the first time
on proper track.
I made the preparation. To minimize the steam up time I used boiled water.
Then I lighted the burner and after a few minutes the
steam pressure was sufficent for the run.
After the first run I decided to refill the engine, but when I
tried to relight the loco the gas jet was blocked. I will
sort these out when I got some muse.
My conclusions:
1. Live Steam is fun
2. I need a Summerland Chuffer. sp that the loco will sound like
a big loco
3. I need a Goodall Valve
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Kessel-Nachspeis ... 3cd61504ab
4. exchange the gas jet
5. hopefully I could lay the track on the extension in the next days.
I hope to take some pictures in the next few days.
Markus
It's been quiet about my garden railway for some time.
The earthwork is finished, and most of the track is laid.
For the background of my garden railway, I decided to resurect my abandond Isle of Skye Railway theme, which I used for my modular N scale layout. I have now discovered that when a railway system have been built on the Isle of Skye it would be a narrow gauge railway. My Isle of Skye Railway runs from Armadale via the small hamlets Kilbeg and Kilmore to Loch nan Uamh. In my fictious history
there is a rare mineral mined for the high quality steel production.
Loch nan Uamh Station (some tracks are still missing)
Armadale station in the background
On the oval would be the two halt for Kilbeg and Kilmore
Overview of the garden railway
And now a video of my garden railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0tetTgxw74
Markus
The earthwork is finished, and most of the track is laid.
For the background of my garden railway, I decided to resurect my abandond Isle of Skye Railway theme, which I used for my modular N scale layout. I have now discovered that when a railway system have been built on the Isle of Skye it would be a narrow gauge railway. My Isle of Skye Railway runs from Armadale via the small hamlets Kilbeg and Kilmore to Loch nan Uamh. In my fictious history
there is a rare mineral mined for the high quality steel production.
Loch nan Uamh Station (some tracks are still missing)
Armadale station in the background
On the oval would be the two halt for Kilbeg and Kilmore
Overview of the garden railway
And now a video of my garden railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0tetTgxw74
Markus
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Today I steamed up my Ragleth and give it a run on my
new Isle of Skye Railway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLtaZXM ... e=youtu.be
Markus
new Isle of Skye Railway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLtaZXM ... e=youtu.be
Markus
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Et Voila!
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It all depends on whether you can get the old embed code out of YouTube. For this posting I went to your video, clicked Share, then clicked Embed and the Use old embed code option was there. Copied the old embed code & pasted it in this posting (Note: you will not see the video in Preview). In the past I've found you will not get the old embed code option if you are Logged In to YouTube.
If you do not get the old embed code there is a more involved method discussed in this Topic on Page 2 - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/ftop ... -embed.php
Chris Cairns
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It all depends on whether you can get the old embed code out of YouTube. For this posting I went to your video, clicked Share, then clicked Embed and the Use old embed code option was there. Copied the old embed code & pasted it in this posting (Note: you will not see the video in Preview). In the past I've found you will not get the old embed code option if you are Logged In to YouTube.
If you do not get the old embed code there is a more involved method discussed in this Topic on Page 2 - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/ftop ... -embed.php
Chris Cairns
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