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by Keith S
Sun Jan 08, 2012 6:37 pm
Forum: Rolling Stock
Topic: new estate wagons for Waterfield Hall
Replies: 14
Views: 8038

That is quite astonishing. It wouldn't have occurred to me to do that, but it's so simple and looks very authentic.

Thanks for posting that.
by Keith S
Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:08 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Yorkshire Groups New Year Steamup!
Replies: 12
Views: 5756

I was, like Doug, about to ask why you've removed the cab back on your engine. I think it looked better with one, but that's only my opinion.

I think that "Lesley" engine would look very nice sitting on the table at my house.
by Keith S
Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:52 pm
Forum: Rolling Stock
Topic: New, erm, old idea for brake van
Replies: 13
Views: 6678

I do have a tender on the engine which isn't really doing anything. I'm reluctant to modify it, though it is worth thinking about. Perhaps I'll test the mechanism on a wagon, then if it works, try it in the tender.
by Keith S
Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:58 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: The Trippe M (Also Known as; The Mad Mans Mods)
Replies: 19
Views: 8715

As the Americans say,

"This I gotta see!"
by Keith S
Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:12 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: 16mm Tube train enters Waterloo
Replies: 20
Views: 3061

That's 38 seconds of my life I would like returned to me, when you have the chance. :roll:
by Keith S
Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:38 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Highlights of 2011
Replies: 19
Views: 4308

For some reason that coal bunker makes the Billy look like a completely different engine- you've done a good job on that. Same thing for me in 2011, building an engine, and some wagons and track, and I had that temporary railway I set up on an island this summer, that was the first time I've ever se...
by Keith S
Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:31 pm
Forum: Rolling Stock
Topic: New, erm, old idea for brake van
Replies: 13
Views: 6678

These have been done before. There was one at butterley a few years ago in a 5 plank wagon, Problem was it didnt govern the speed very well as when the governor applied the brakes the loco just dragged the wagon. That's what I'm worried about. The wagon will have to be very heavy and maybe will hav...
by Keith S
Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:40 am
Forum: Rolling Stock
Topic: New, erm, old idea for brake van
Replies: 13
Views: 6678

New, erm, old idea for brake van

I have just ordered from IP engineering an Isle of Mann covered wagon (very excited) and an open-backed brake van. I was thinking of an idea for the brake van: I believe it may originally have been "Irish Peter"'s idea and I have been thinking about it for quite a while now: a little centr...
by Keith S
Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:20 am
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Roundhouse Basic Locomotives
Replies: 52
Views: 30147

Excellent. I love roundhouse engines. Looks like your Milie has its work cut out for it. The Ruby (ie?)s also look hard-working and hard-done-by, just like all good-hearted steam engines. Good show! Still hard to accept that there is snow down there. Must be down to the clear nights. Tell me, Peter,...
by Keith S
Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:07 am
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Roundhouse Basic Locomotives
Replies: 52
Views: 30147

As a certain well know chap around here says - Photos threatened. Peter in AZ Mm. Indeed. 8) I would second that. There aren't enough pictures around here. I would like to see this new locomotive on the rails pulling stuff. Take pity on us, oh Irish Peter, who have no railway. Bless us with picture...
by Keith S
Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:22 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Tender drawbars and platforms
Replies: 26
Views: 8618

That's OK Shane, it's done now anyway. I had a drawbar mounted to the spot the buffer would have been without the tender, and I've made the fall-plate hinged to the bottom of the cab, with a rounded end on the tender side so it doesn't hit the tender on curves. It just provides a little bridge for t...
by Keith S
Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:39 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Tender drawbars and platforms
Replies: 26
Views: 8618

I just finished the fall-plate for my engine. I made it from thick sheet brass and made my own hinges. It looks pretty good. I won't post any pictures.
by Keith S
Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:09 pm
Forum: Videos
Topic: The latest from the DLR studios
Replies: 3
Views: 1850

Well done. Was it you who put the hackworth valve gear on that Bertie? How difficult was it? I think it looks great, I like engines with that gear, it's entertaining to watch. The roundhouse technical section has a schematic of the gear, but it says you must have the inclined cylinders. Your Bertie ...
by Keith S
Mon Dec 26, 2011 2:14 am
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Rear-end wall at the Roundhouse Billy ?
Replies: 13
Views: 8994

Hrm. I guess I assumed it was a man. Well, whoever it was, it's a pretty good looking engine. The picture above was one I copied to my computer when I was harvesting pictures of roundhouse engines while trying to decide how to paint mine. I just looked for the picture online again, and found that th...
by Keith S
Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:28 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Tender drawbars and platforms
Replies: 26
Views: 8618

*sigh* :roll:

They use "steam chest pressure" to quantify regulator setting.

Still no pictures of tender drawbars, eh?

Well nuts to all of you then. I'll come up with something myself.
by Keith S
Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:41 pm
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Tender drawbars and platforms
Replies: 26
Views: 8618

I was wondering too, and looked it up using the "google". Turns out most steam locomotives able to run on the main line in the UK already have OTMR fitted. I didn't bother to try and look up exactly how , but I imagine it's a pain in the posterior. Even some little 0-6-0 tanks have it. I w...
by Keith S
Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:12 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Tender drawbars and platforms
Replies: 26
Views: 8618

Thanks, Dan. That's more or less what I have already, except the Roundhouse tender doesn't have the overhang that yours does, so I'm going to rig up a fall plate of some kind to cover the drawbar. I'm not really that bothered by it; it's just an area where I think the engine could look better.
by Keith S
Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:36 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Sherwood Oaks Light Railway
Replies: 430
Views: 163510

The girl friend named it. Shes a Fashion designer and a Gaga fan. All you need now is an alcohol-fired locomotive called "Britney Spears"... I suppose to be accurate it should be convertible between alcohol and coke... just a matter of changing grates I suppose. Easy enough because such a...
by Keith S
Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:17 am
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Edrig make over - Finished
Replies: 38
Views: 17574

Looks great- I think you should turn the pressure gauge around to face the proper way, though.
by Keith S
Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:42 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Tender drawbars and platforms
Replies: 26
Views: 8618

That's what I think, too. I've got a flat bar attached to the spot the centre buffer would screw onto the buffer beam on the engine. I used a spare connecting rod bolt so it could swivel and a little spring to keep it level. It comes out of the buffer beam too low for the pin on the tender, so I had...