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She has presence, a engine with personality.

This is very much at the experimental stage, it uses an infra red range finder as the RADAR, this sends an analog signal to the micro controller and depending on the distance to the detected object it alters the duty cycle of the PWM motor controller accordingly. The micro controller is an Arduino ...

I use Skype everyday for communicating with the other members of my development team and with our contractors in India and Nebraska. I actually much prefer it to Goto meeting (our other conference call solution) but would also much prefer to just be using good old IRC.

Coal fired NGG-16

Thanks,
I'll take a look at roundhouse - but seeing that thread on Salem Steam's trailing truck I may just try and bodge together something similar.

Thanks Colin and Chris!

Or more properly:Five Hundred And Seven Mechanical Movements Embracing All Those Which Are Most Important In Dynamics Hydraulics Hydrostatics Pneumatics Steam Engines Mill And Other Gearing Presses Horology And Miscellaneous Machinery And Including Many Movements Never Before Published And Several W...

I'm looking for a 32 mm gauge single axle trailing truck. So far all I've been able to find are Lionel tinplate. Does anyone sell a 32mm gauge pony truck suitable for use in a mamod mod?

Love the atmosphere - it just feels narrow-gaugey to me.

What a beaut!

It was a spectacularly unreliable 1997 Jeep. So many breakdowns...

That DOES look nice. I'm sure it's an excellent magazine. I wouldn't benefit much from being a member of that group though.  :( I'm in the same boat. I'd like to be a member - but that's a lot of money for basically just a quarterly magazine. If there was a (cheaper) web-only subscription it would ...

What a beauty!

Elmtree Line:82220 wrote:Lots of rocks, needs some plants!

Lots of rocks and no plants pretty much sums up the scenery of the real Rio Grande narrow gauge lines!

Peter if you scroll down to my 8th posting on this Topic you will see some photos and a diagram explaining this problem - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/Building_an_MSS_Side_Tank_Loco_Kit_about6201.html If you are starting with a paint stripped boiler it is easier and I take the opportunity to ...

How would go about stenghtening that tube. I'm planning a similar conversion and am following this thread with interest.

Lner fan Sam:82036 wrote:So where is his head?

The game is afoot!

What you need to do is set that up running one way and a model of this going the other way!


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At that price you'd have to be crazy not to buy one! What's the shipping to the US?

We might think it was Trevithick's 1804 steam engine but we need to go back a bit earlier. This article (from Jalopnik) talks about Ferdinand Verbiest's 1672 model steam car, which he built while working as the court astronomer for the Chinese Emperor.

Awesome - almost looks like a Tymesaver