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Attention to detail and consideration given to so many aspects of this (the railway, rolling stock, operations, video) is, of course, so impressive. Love the sheep audio! Sheep audio was something that stood out to me as well, as something I wouldn't have thought to add but that gives a lot of ambi...

Wow Drew, I didn't realise that the Nolwyn Valley railway had developed this far. It all looks very rustic.I need to re-read you thread. The camera angle is deceptive... This is pretty much the whole thing! :mrgreen: For some reason I had thought the deadline was the 1st of June, so this is great n...

The afternoon goods approaches the halt:

After reading the whole article one thing that caught my eye was that she didn't want to "settle" for battery power, but planned to run live steam... I guess the battery mafia hasn't gotten to her yet! :lol: I bet her kids would have a lot of fun with some battery locos-- mine sure do! Thr...

It looks really lovely, Rik. I hope I can make it over to visit someday.

I have a few domestic trips planned this summer that involve a rail history preservation element... I might have to borrow this idea and see if anybody can guess where I am!

Wow, lucky! Sounds like it ended up in the right hands.

All I found in my back garden was 300 bricks and a bunch of trash!

Sorry to disappoint Rik, was hoping to let somebody else guess. The 'steamroller' comment was meant as an oblique reference to Sir Haydn's wide-treaded pony wheels. There was a Railway Series story where the other engines made fun of Sir Handel (based on Sir Haydn) for that feature. (That might've b...

A downy woodpecker visited the line the other day. It made for a decent bird's-eye view of the line as well. Screenshot_20240517-014200__01.jpg The wall has met with spousal approval but I keep fiddling with it. I suppose it's better to get the placement perfect now rather than notice things after i...

Wow, some great scenery you've got to work with there. I've read about those beetles, they can spray boiling chemicals out the back end :shock: Your wildlife sure makes me appreciate mine... Even if we do have to shovel the lake flies off the sidewalk a few weeks a year, at least they don't sting or...

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 2:51 pm
'Mallard' ? ..... This is fun!

Mallard's not green... Clearly, this is ’Dwight D Eisenhower’!

I think I know it again, but somebody else can have this one.

(I might've heard this one has steamroller wheels? )

The distinctive large/boxy side tanks were the first clue, though the wheels did throw me off a bit... I hadn't realized they were so small! The glimpse of the crest on the tank and the mineral wagon in the background were also helpful clues. I didn't even notice the buffers until after answering, b...

That has to be Tom Rolt! Are you at the Talyllyn Railway?

So, does that mean you never do any wallpapering?? :lol: Because, using a plumbline, that's how you get a vertical line on a wall to line the edge of the wallpaper to. I've been doing it that way for 50 years and never had any probs ( he says modestly!). In fact you can actually get plumblines with...

Nice loco! Love the belt drive (is that what you'd call it?), beautifully quirky. And that corner's looking just right... Cheers, Andrew. Thanks! I was trying to make it look like it was built from scraps in the quarry's workshop, which it kind of was; the skip frame it's built on had lost two axle...

Whoopee, a cupee! :mrgreen: I'll admit I get a bit confused if a loco component doesn't have a red (+) and a black (-) on it. (And even then I get mixed up sometimes!) :lol: So would the exhaust steam come into the middle set of tubes from the cylinders, and depending on the position of the pistons ...

The screw on the end looks like it could be for attaching a handle, so does it have some kind of valve inside? The symmetrical nature of the dual outlets suggests it might connect to something that's the same on both sides, like cylinders maybe. (I don't know much about steam locos, but I'm pretty s...

Rod, I was looking back at old threads and I see you have a similar little diesel "Logan". My "Moke" uses the same Jenbach JW15 body shell but sits on a skip frame, with some customizations to fit a scavenged toy motor and 2xAA battery box. It was my first 3D printed loco and is ...

Well done Drew. My little help thread has succeeded in doing what I wanted it to, to get more members to make videos and show off their lines. Yours is a little bit short your right :lol: But hey, who cares, you have done it and I like the speed of the loco. Nice clear shot.:bravo Thanks Rod, I had...

Not tried them myself (yet) but you could use the editing tools built into YouTube Rik Thanks Rik, I'll take a look. My first problem I'm noticing as I look back through my recent recordings, is that I tend to start the recording too late and end it too soon, so it turns out pretty abrupt in a vide...