Garden Railway Forum

No idea as to what is causing the hold up. If you are UK based, you might find LocoRemote a more reliable (and cheaper) option http://www.locoremote.co.uk/ Rik Thank you Rik for the information. I didn't know LocoRemote before. But I just contacted them and ordered the remote control board via emai...

No idea as to what is causing the hold up. If you are UK based, you might find LocoRemote a more reliable (and cheaper) option http://www.locoremote.co.uk/ Rik Thank you Rik for the information. I didn't know LocoRemote before. But I just contacted them and ordered the remote control board via emai...

I am planning for some in-door work on the locomotives as usual when the Winter is approaching. One of my interests is to install the bluerail board that can control the locomotive via an iPhone, but somehow, I tried to contact them for the procurement in the past 3 weeks, nobody answered my emails....

It turned out NWSL does not have the right gear for the model. They said this is the first time they heard of gears for USA trains dockside. So my next approach is trying to find a matching pair gear/worm gear with similar dimensions to those I am going to replace. After searching for the gears unf...

Thanks all, for the information. I looked into NWSL and it seems it has similar gears that I need. I just contacted them for the potential match so I can order. USA Trains usually does not sell the gears but they sell the whole 3 axels-wheels as a complete set. But unfortunately, they even don't ha...

These people, a regular stop off for gears to fit US products, in the US might have a drop in replacement https://nwsl.com/. Perhaps try USA Trains direct http://www.usatrains.com/usatrainspartsmenu.html . In the UK Markits could be a starting point http://www.markits.com/ or some other finesacle s...

These people, a regular stop off for gears to fit US products, in the US might have a drop in replacement https://nwsl.com/. Perhaps try USA Trains direct http://www.usatrains.com/usatrainspartsmenu.html . In the UK Markits could be a starting point http://www.markits.com/ or some other finesacle s...

These people, a regular stop off for gears to fit US products, in the US might have a drop in replacement https://nwsl.com/. Perhaps try USA Trains direct http://www.usatrains.com/usatrainspartsmenu.html . In the UK Markits could be a starting point http://www.markits.com/ or some other finesacle s...

My locomotive's gear broke; I notice 2 teeth are in bad condition, and this is the third time I encounter this problem. I wonder if there is any service to create brass gears? I hope the lifetime will be longer than the plastic counterparts.

I have had a few of these, first I find a plastistrut tube that fits over the mount and cut to length, assuming it will not interfere with re-assembly, I the fill the screw hole and crack with plastic filler, and glue on the plastic ring. I normally leave 24 hrs and then pilot drill out the hole, a...

Thanks,unfortunately the forum software won't display .tif files, but I've downloaded it and this is it converted to a jpg screw mount.jpg I can see what your problem is and it isn't uncommon, I've seen the same thing myself many times. I'm not aware of any commercial repair kit unfortunately, beca...

Thanks,unfortunately the forum software won't display .tif files, but I've downloaded it and this is it converted to a jpg screw mount.jpg I can see what your problem is and it isn't uncommon, I've seen the same thing myself many times. I'm not aware of any commercial repair kit unfortunately, beca...

philipy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:52 am Not altogether sure I understand what you mean by "screw mounts" ?

I attach herein a photo of a broken screw mount

I did some maintenance for the locomotives today, and I found a few screw mounts either crack or totally broken. I wonder if there is a kit available for patching up these broken screw mounts?

Lovely to hear the crickets/grasshoppers- something we only seem to hear in North Yorkshire when it's really hot. We had temperatures in the 90's a couple of weeks ago, and high humidity - but it's never around long enough to get acclimatised too. After a week of rain we are back to temperatures of...

My daughter and I just made this movie yesterday evening; it was fun to play with a kiddo in the garden; it was steaming hot, though. The weather was nearly 100F.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQAIc-IiSrk

I took advantage of the long weekend to wire the RC system for the Amtrak train this morning. I like the design of this train, very easy to work with, and it is spacious. This is how it looks in the test run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48f7D8Y3c3w&t=144s

After nearly 10 years into the garden railway, we felt much better to chop off 2 large trees right outside of the fence. They split easily during windy days and thus unsafe. And during the winter, a huge amount of leaves that damage the wood fence and of obviously we spent a lot of effort to clean a...

This Piko locomotive was my first one when I started to enter this hobby nearly 10 years ago. Now, the wheels are gone, but the motor and the gears are still there. I wonder if there is any way to give it new LGB wheelsets? or I have to buy the whole LGB gearbox? I am a bit confused now about how to...

The weather was cold and wet in the past 2 weeks. Today, the weather improvedd a lot; so, I decided to clean the garden railway. There are so many wet leaves around, very messy and dirty. After that, I re-glued some of the figures and made this movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UV5V46OhuY