Double Headed Mineral working.

LMS-Jools · Post by **LMS-Jools** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:50 am

Lots of rain and greasy rails nearly bring the train to a complete halt !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y1Mj9CL8JQ

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:59 am

PULL HARDER BOYS!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:05 pm

Great video.

I wounder if it is possible to fit sanders to 16mm scale locos?

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:09 pm

If you major rail wear, and were silly enough, quite possibly!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:25 pm

What do you mean 'major rail wear'?

Radbourne · Post by **Radbourne** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:19 pm

Why didn't the driver get out an sand the rails 'old-school' style?

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:43 pm

The problem was that Jool's runs so often that the rails have got quite a layer of grease on them. The rain was also a fine steady drizzle which dosn't do anything to wash the rails down (and throw small soil and grit particles on the rails) that a torrential downpour would do. That sort of drizzle can make things pretty horrible for the driver on any scale of railway
Nice video Jools btw

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Sat May 23, 2009 9:50 pm

The bit about light rain being the worst is very true: when I drove the 2' gauge at Butterley, which is nearly all downhill after you get out through the site gates, I was always most worried on drizzly days - not that I wouldn't get back up, but that the train might run away down hill!

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Sat May 23, 2009 9:56 pm

whats with the tubs of gravel? why not just put it straight into the truck?

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Sat May 23, 2009 9:58 pm

great vid

LMS-Jools · Post by **LMS-Jools** » Sat May 23, 2009 11:03 pm

Tubs:

We had been running Mineral Train service running earlier whereby the Tubs are loaded at a quarry siding using a loading shute.
This is undertaken wagon by wagon as they are shunted under the shute.

At the other end of the run the wagons need emptying and its a lot easier to lift tubs out and tip the load away than uncouple and then rerail and couple up all the wagons again.

The video itself was rather impromtu and not planned as we were really just seeing if the Locos would lift the train up the gradient in such poor conditions. If the vid had been planned then yes we would probably have loaded the wagons themselves.

Ho Hum Pigs Bum lol

Titan · Post by **Titan** » Sun May 24, 2009 9:00 pm

MDLR wrote:The bit about light rain being the worst is very true: when I drove the 2' gauge at Butterley, which is nearly all downhill after you get out through the site gates, I was always most worried on drizzly days - not that I wouldn't get back up, but that the train might run away down hill!

Never bothered me!!! ;) (and people wondered why I wore a 'Dukes of Hazzard' baseball cap!!!)

Very nice video mind - isn't it amazing how the locos just hang in there and get the job done!

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