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- Fri May 10, 2024 2:15 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Accucraft Shay
- Replies: 7
- Views: 321
Re: Accucraft Shay
On the two cylinder, can you do what I did w the Ruby and give it good steam at the throttle and use the reverser valve to regulate speed (and direction of course)? I see no reason why not. I gather the valve gear on the 13T Shay (and the other Shay models) is much the same as the Ruby design, with...
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:06 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Accucraft Shay
- Replies: 7
- Views: 321
Re: Accucraft Shay
Do any of you have experience with any of the Accucraft Shays? If so, can it handle a 1% grade? Id really like to make a crossover loop on my future mining district, I have lots of space and it would be a large portion of the railroad. The Shay will/would be remote controlled as well. I have no exp...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: 'Steam Trains in your Garden' book back in print
- Replies: 1
- Views: 161
'Steam Trains in your Garden' book back in print
The book 'Steam Trains in your Garden' by Brian Wilson has been out of print for a while now and s/h copies are hard to find. For those looking for a copy, the book is now obtainable again from the web shop on Wilson Locomotives' new website. https://www.wilsonlocomotives.com/product/steam-trains-in...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Comparing Geared motors
- Replies: 10
- Views: 897
Re: Comparing Geared motors
I bought the 12v high power version, assuming it would be more powerful. I wonder if the low power versions run better at low revs?? What rating are the generic gearmotors? If they have the same motor revs. and stall current rating as the Pololu high power motor then the different running character...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Comparing Geared motors
- Replies: 10
- Views: 897
Re: Comparing Geared motors
As you say, maybe it will improve once it's run in. It is certainly worth trying. Run one in at different speeds, as well as changing direction now and again and see if it improves. I've got a vague memory that the Pololu 25D motors in my big diesel became very free running after the test runs they...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Comparing Geared motors
- Replies: 10
- Views: 897
Re: Comparing Geared motors
However, when testing my first chassis with a (c£20GBP) Polulo geared motor, I was disappointed to find that it doesn't seem to want to run at slow speed. It jolts to a start when the voltage is relatively high. I'm currently working on a steam loco build, so my mind is in a different space. Howeve...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: A Ruston-ish ....
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2026
Re: A Ruston-ish ....
I must start making my own powered chassis. It would expand your modelling horizons considerably.......... ;) Although at the rate you are going at present, you will have the diesel equivalent of Boulton's Siding soon. ** Graeme ** look up 'The Chronicles of Boulton's Siding' by Alfred Rosling Benn...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:19 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: A Ruston-ish ....
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2026
Re: A Ruston-ish ....
I think, when Ruston's did produce 3' gauge locos, they were inside-framed. Rustons that were built to other than 2' gauge had extensions welded to the sides of the frames to carry the wider wheelsets. This link to a photo taken by the late Weston Langford shows a later model Ruston that ran on the...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Leawarra Nayook Railway
- Replies: 653
- Views: 248310
Re: The Leawarra Nayook Railway
however the weather has thrown a spanner in the works with a severe storm bringing trees down and completely blocking the main line at the entrance to Nayook. Luckily not a single piece of infrastructure was damaged however there is a massive clean up to be conducted and of course no trains will be...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: A short 4-wheel wagon
- Replies: 7
- Views: 650
Re: A short 4-wheel wagon
It is obviously an inside bearing arrangement - no idea if such things exist on wagons, but they do on my railway! I could add some fake outside springs and axles boxes if anyone complains. If the NSWGR could use surplus garratt bogies as rail tractor chassis, I can't see why your claypit line coul...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: 32mm/45mm railway
- Replies: 8
- Views: 702
Re: 32mm/45mm railway
so my question is how ridiculous is the idea of a 2foot gauge branchline connecting to a 3 foot gauge railway. I'm not aware of any junctions between 2' and 3' gauge common carrier railways in Ireland, although there may have been industrial 2' gauge railways that connected somewhere to a 3' gauge ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Wibbly wobbly roof
- Replies: 8
- Views: 603
Re: Wibbly wobbly roof
Curious stuff this PLA PLA was developed as a biodegradable plastic for making cheap biodegradable shopping bags. That idea fell flat on it's face when it was found that the bags didn't degrade when buried in a landfill........ If you look it up PLA has a very low Tg compared to the engineering pol...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Loco wheels (and other issues) 7/8th scale
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1686
Re: Loco wheels (and other issues) 7/8th scale
However, the PDF LAT kit (I actually have 2 of these so double the trouble) appears to have a few curious 'issues'. The main one being that the steel wheels (which have plastic centres) come fitted to axles of 3.35 dia as opposed to the 3.175 (1/8th inch) bore of the drive gear supplied, plus they ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: TVT - Down in the Forest Something Stirred
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5693
Re: TVT - Down in the Forest Something Stirred
This model is still no nearer to a tin of paint since the last update, but it has completed it's load test with flying colours. It's good when a plan comes together........... The photo shows the loco running around the track today, trundling along in late afternoon sunshine at about 20 scale mph wi...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: originally from Germany
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1970
Re: originally from Germany
Perhaps our colleagues from Gemania could help us, but apparently there are few of them on this forum. I tried to log in to one of the German forums, but it didn’t work for me The German link seemed to work, but as far as I could make out, it mainly covered the small scales from more recent years. ...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: HGLW loco tweak
- Replies: 77
- Views: 4937
Re: HGLW loco tweak
Andy, I have been trying to find out more about McEwan Pratt petrol locomotives for many years and failed miserably. I never worked out what the canopies were for either. McEwan Pratt went broke before WW1, so their records will be long gone. Baguley bought the remains from the receiver and used th...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: HGLW loco tweak
- Replies: 77
- Views: 4937
Re: HGLW loco tweak
The only steeple cab IC locomotives I'm aware of were the two Crossleys used by Dorman-Long on the Sydney Harbour bridge contract. They only vaguely resemble the HGLW model, but there is a photo and drawing in the article in Light Railways #133 on this link. http://media.lrrsa.org.au/kabo133/Light_R...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3391
- Views: 1114857
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
Little three wheelers possibly wouldn't be suitable for conversion to narrow gauge, but if you feel confident enough, try this for size... It's been done with an Isetta ........ I've seen an article somewhere on building a model version. https://m.facebook.com/OnlineTransportArchive/photos/a.235226...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Restoration West Side Lumber Shay 15
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1012
Re: Restoration West Side Lumber Shay 15
Does somebody have any idea how to clean this oily engine in one piece? I'm not sure if I can rebuild it when it is in pieces. The loco doesn't look especially oily, so I assume you just want to degrease the areas that need repainting? Since it is an electric model, you need to avoid the usual meth...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132670
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
I suppose I ought to cobble together some sort of box / cradle / tray / thing — to get it outside and on the rails in one piece. Garratts are a pain in the what he said, when it comes to moving them around away from the track. The bigger the model the bigger the pain...... For just moving one aroun...