More Mamod Fairlie Action!!!

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More Mamod Fairlie Action!!!

Post by Titan » Sun May 24, 2009 9:05 pm

It was a nice day, so I took Janus to the Butterley Garden railway.  This is its first run outside:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYWInVJ12Ag

It ran very well, although train length was limited to what would fit in the loop - whilst sharing the track with other locos I wanted to be able to let them by when I was refuelling etc.

I think it could handle quite a bit more...
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Post by LMS-Jools » Sun May 24, 2009 9:12 pm

Nice vid and I have to say I am impressed with your MAMOD double Fairlie, hope to see it in the flesh one day somewhere over the rainbow etc.
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Post by Matt » Sun May 24, 2009 9:49 pm

Great video.

Ever thought of writing an article for Garden Rail?
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Post by ACLR » Mon May 25, 2009 8:13 pm

great video :D

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Post by Titan » Mon May 25, 2009 9:18 pm

Matt wrote:Great video.

Ever thought of writing an article for Garden Rail?
I may do an article for one of the magazines, maybe SMT, I have not really thought about it. I have however covered its progress here:

http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/ftopic14110-0.php

It could form the basis of an article!
LMS-Jools wrote:Nice vid and I have to say I am impressed with your MAMOD double Fairlie, hope to see it in the flesh one day somewhere over the rainbow etc.
I would not mind taking it 'on tour' when it is properly finished, I notice I just missed out on PTLR fest. Oh well maybe some other time!
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Post by SillyBilly » Tue May 26, 2009 12:23 am

Looks much better outside where it can really be put through its paces. Were you going to line it with Locolines stuff? Just I was thinking maybe you could use red trimline to border between black and green? I'm not sure about the heat+trimline equation though?

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Post by mhlr » Tue May 26, 2009 12:30 am

SillyBilly wrote:Just I was thinking maybe you could use red trimline to border between black and green? I'm not sure about the heat+trimline equation though?
I reckon it will hold better than the locolines stuff.
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Post by Titan » Tue May 26, 2009 6:50 am

I was originally going to do that, but I am rather starting to like it the way it is. I just need to get the wheels sorted and painted so they match each other and I think that may well be its final livery.
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