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The yellow coach/carriage is from the Bachmann Little Hauler/ Short Line series. It is going to be the 1st Class Service Parlour Car for the patrons of the Grand View Resort. The wheelbase is a bit long for my 32" minimum radius curves, so I put on the smallest diameter 32mm wheel sets and sque...

South Yard The loaded Coal train has arrived, the brake van taken off and coupled to the outbound empties. The Big Valley train has arrived with hay and livestock car, ready to be set onto the Team Track for unloading. The Passenger Coach, a Parlour Car is sitting on the Passenger train staging trac...

Here's the Warehouse area. The Warehouse will have 3 doors for unloading, and enough room to shove down to locate a 4th car at a door. The 5 car cut is sitting on the Team Track where hay and livestock gets unloaded. Yard office is on the right. The Tanker is sitting on the Coal track, as the cister...

Here is one Coal train set at the Power Plant coal dock. The loads come out for the empty return trip to the Mine, where a second set of Coal gondolas are being loaded.

Thank you!
Best part of this is creating a working operations track plan and figuring out an engine and freight car roster to fit the operations plan.

Here is the Grand View Light Railway Roster The Accucraft Peckett - FIREFLY - is the Passenger engine The Roundhouse Katie - DRAGONFLY - is the General Freight engine The Accucraft Sabrina - DRAGONFIRE - is the Coal train power All engines will be R/C with RCS handheld transmitters, DRAGONFLY has R/...

The expansion layout consists of a 4 track Staging Yard, the Big Valley Branch on the left, The Vulcan Coal Mine Branch on the right and bottom, and a complete loop around the room running track with a passing siding for 2 train operations if wanted. This will support 4 train operation to the Grand ...

I have built a small SM32 indoors railway in my Office representing the Terminal End of a 2 foot Narrow Gauge Railway serving a Hot and Mineral Springs Resort circa 1905, built in the USA San Juan mountains near the New Mexico and Colorado border by British investors. They chose 2 foot as being easi...

artfull dodger wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:43 pm I put one of the new rear coal bunkers that Roundhouse offers on my factory built Billy, that also really makes the engine look more complete as a tank engine. The open cab back really needs either the bunker or the tender.

How do you coal fire the engine with a bunker blocking the firebox door?

I am building a SM32 Live Steam indoors layout in 2 rooms of my house. Peco SM32 points availability here in the USA has dried up, and as I contact UK dealers they are all telling me they are Out Of Stock. Does anyone know when and if Peco is going to start up production of SM32 track and points? OR...

I am building an indoors SM32 Live Steam layout in my home for the last several months and the availability of Peco SM32 points is drying up. Can not find any source anymore in the USA and now as I contact UK dealers they are reporting everything is Out Of Stock. Does anyone know if Peco is ever get...

You could also use Peco flex track, bent down to 20 inch radius to fit.

Hmmm... Jason Kovacs from Train Department uses an independent boiler maker for his coal conversions.
I wonder if they would be interested in making and marketing 2 flue coal boilers to fit Roundhouse chassis?

Does anyone do loco lining in the USA?

I received my factory lined Accucraft Peckett and it makes my RH Katie and Accucraft Sabrina look like plain Janes...
The cost of shipping round trip to the UK has become astronomical, so looking for someone on this side of the Pond.
Thanks for any help!

I'v accumulated all the parts to R/C my Accucraft Sabrina - RCS R/C control system, Tx, Rx, 2 servos, on/off harness, also have a couple of servo mounts on hand, 2mm wire linkages with turnbuckles, a 4 AA battery box mount, and a 90 degree linkage gizmo which I'm told is for the throttle linkage. No...

PRICE LOWERED Lightly used Regner Chaloner for sale, self starting 2 cylinder oscillating gear driven engine - won't run away on downhills. Comes with 45/32mm adjustable insulated wheels, American Ronson gas filler, water sight glass and top off valve with Regner water bottle and fitting, Regner too...

I've recently got the exact same peckett you have. It's an excellent steamer & it'll happily run at a slowish speed & it'll restart its self if it looses a bit of steam pressure. I absolutely love mine it's one of my favourite locos. It has a surprisingly good haulage capacity too. That is ...

Lol, no not literally but figuratively 16 miles long. The Grand View Resort terminal is a L shaped layout in one room of the house.The Main Line goes thru a wall to a second room with a 4 track staging yard and an around the room running loop incorporating 2 Branch lines that feeds traffic to the Re...

Thanks! The lanterns are from Ozark Minatures, figures by Busy Body.
The larger one took 6 evenings to build after supper watching Netflix, the smaller one took 4 evenings as the build sequence was figured out on the first car.

The 2 foot Grand View Light Railway needed some Brake Vans for train operations, so I built a couple on short LGB chassis out of popsicle sticks and tongue depressors. The larger one is Bi-directional and doesn't need turning, the Brakeman just changes seats and changes ends of the rear marker lante...