Garden Railway Forum

I suggest you go back and re-read the original Discussion you raised on the other Forum as we answered your question fairly comprehensively there - http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/Mamod_Cylinder_about73793.html New 'O' ring pistons need bedding in. So it is beneficial to fit the original cylinder...

By rubber rings do you mean the type with the stuffing gland nut on the the piston rod end of the piston? If so slacken these right off and run in (loco on blocks) using plenty of oil on the piston rods. Once it's all freed off finger tighten the nuts until steam stops blowing past, any more will b...

Hi, I had a problem with my sl1 that sounds very similar. I fitted a cylinder upgrade kit, after fitting the chassis was very stiff. I thought it was the pistons, annoyingly the problem got worse when the model got hot. I could just about get the chassis to run on compressed air but only at high pr...

I have been fixing the Mamod SL3 model for a while and I gave up. But now I want to trouble shoot the issue again. problems after problems arise that I have ever seen it run since I acquired the locomotive in Ebay nearly a year. The current issue is that after I replaced new pistons, which have the ...

I wonder if there is any live steam locomotive auction available on line?

Thanks for the information. I just need manual control. I will look into learning how to do this since I feel cleaning track is too much time-consuming. Yes - that's what prompted me to go down the battery power route and I've not regretted it. In fact, just sold off all my LGB DCC gear so am now t...

BTW - a flexible way of providing battery power with the minimum of effort is to put the batteries in a trail car (eg a box van) and run wires to the loco. The Stainz loco has a socket at the rear which can be used to power the loco - so all you'd need would be a plug, some wires and a battery pack...

I want to share some of the photos I took last week-end. ./myff/1816329/Haruka+garden+railway+1.JPG ./myff/1816331/Haruka+garden+railway+3.JPG ./myff/1816333/Haruka+garden+railway+4.JPG ./myff/1816334/Haruka+garden+railway+5.JPG ./myff/1816336/Haruka+garden+railway+6.JPG ./myff/1816338/Haruka+garden...

MDLR:105459 wrote:Which particulr loco are you thinking of? LGB ones will need more batteries than some other locos.....................

Right, I have LGB locomotives. I just need a very basic battery-powered, I don't need sound.

I wonder if there is a video somewhere showing how to convert track-powered locomotives to batter-powered?

I want to update the railway after I installed the crossing lights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npH00f0f ... e=youtu.be

Brian,
Thanks for the information. It's amazing this hobby has been developed with a lot of sophisticated designs.

I just bought a classic lighted signal for my track. My question is how to wire this signal to the track that makes the lights flash when the train passing by?

"Oh, heck! That's grown a bit.................................."

Since I got into this hobby, I didn't watch movies anymore. Whenever, I have time in the week-end, I prefer to work in the garden. It keeps growing then.

This is the current status of my garden railway 9 months after I got into this hobby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pen5ehxW ... e=youtu.be

This is after I expanded the railway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeZuCuI ... e=youtu.be

This is a few months after I established my garden railway. Later, I expanded the railway twice larger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SejQ4WhI ... e=youtu.be

"What did you use for all the lighting?"

I used LED. The advantage is that it will last much longer than light bulbs. The disadvantage is that LED are directional, so if we reverse the power, it won't work.

"That looks good! Wish my planting would settle in that quickly rather than dying back completely within 2 months! I like the windmill, but its rotating a tad fast for my taste!" Thanks the idea. I also think so, too. I tried to find a gear box motor that can rotate one or two rounds per m...

This is a movie of my garden railway in the first two months. Since then, there are quite a lot of things have been added in the past 9 months, I will list more videos in the near future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH0Tt03u5Ig