The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy) - a Norwegian Garden Railway

St.Michael · Post by **St.Michael** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:56 pm

Thank you!
Very inspiring pictures!

Michael

KjellAn · Post by **KjellAn** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:55 pm

WINTER IN MY GARDEN

December 15. 2012

The winter and snow is here, and my RH Billy had to go for a ride on the PHRy (Pine Hill Railway) today.
Here are some pics from the event this morning.

Light freight-train on track 2 at the mainstation of the line.

"ALF" - a Roundhouse Billy

Passengers waiting for the Christmas-train ...

Winter on the PHRy ...

The ALF-engine on the large trestle.

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:02 pm

That looks delightful!

IrishPeter · Post by **IrishPeter** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:17 pm

I absolutely love the pictures. Thank you, they cheered me up no end, as I had just had to abandon any thought of pushing on further with my track relay today as I am under snow myself. Hopefully it will clear here by Monday.

Peter in AZ

williamfj · Post by **williamfj** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:22 pm

Great photos, I can feel the cold!

Peter L · Post by **Peter L** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:32 pm

Pictures like this are why I've always wanted to railroad outside.

Absolutely beautiful!

St.Michael · Post by **St.Michael** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:39 pm

Beautiful

Very inspiring

Thank you for sharing.
And here are some technical questions: Do you have any problem with ice freezing on the top of the rail and blocking the points aswell? What kind of gass do you use in winter driving?

KjellAn · Post by **KjellAn** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:03 am

St.Michael:78011 wrote:Do you have any problem with ice freezing on the top of the rail and blocking the points aswell? What kind of gass do you use in winter driving?

Top of the rails: No problem. After driving over the tracks a few times the ice is gone.
Points: Must check and clean guard rails and point rails before driving - but not a big problem.
Gas: I use pure butane. Engine and gas stored inside. I'm using hot water and have steamup outside.
Actually no problems with the engine, but the the rolling stock where having some icelumps on their wheeels.
Maybe it si a good idea to put the wagons outside in the cold to acheive the same temperature as the rails,
before the driving-session.

Keith S · Post by **Keith S** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:52 am

Those are really nice pictures. I am going to look at them again after I post this.

Post by **Andrew** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:54 pm

Brilliant photos, thank you! I particularly like the ones on the trestle bridge...

KjellAn · Post by **KjellAn** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 9:14 am

25. December 2012

Here is a video from the Pine Hill Railway at Christmas-Day.
My RH Billy "ALF" in front of a rake of freightwaggons.

Enjoy it ...

Link to YouTube

spooner · Post by **spooner** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:55 am

GREAT VIDEO.

DVT Dweller · Post by **DVT Dweller** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:01 pm

I love the snow scene's they look great and as for the pic of Hvalstad Viaduct, wow.

KjellAn · Post by **KjellAn** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:20 am

A new engine will soon arrive at the PHRy. A RH Silver Lady with red lining.
Here are some pics of her.

I can hardly wait to take a closer look.

St.Michael · Post by **St.Michael** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:42 pm

What a beautie

Congrats, a lot

Have you been thinking of a name yet?

Keith S · Post by **Keith S** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:39 pm

That looks nice. You must be excited. Also, I just watched your winter video, I hadn't noticed it there before.

What is the lowest temperature you've run your locomotive at, Kjell?

EiSvIn · Post by **EiSvIn** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:17 pm

Silver Lady is a beauty! An the color superb.

KjellAn · Post by **KjellAn** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:00 pm

Thanks for the greetings!

The Silver Lady will have some more details; chopper-couplings, change some cheese-head screws to hex-head bolts, real coal-lumps in the coal-bins, a chuffer, and of course nameplates.

In some way I think of this engine as a female - there are more things on the engine to handle at same time

and she is a beauty.

Her brother is a RH Billy called "ALF". Maybe the "Lady" should have a nordic name of a kind? What do members of the forum suggest?

The temperature was about 10 degrees below freezing. I did not actually have any problems with the gas flow or burner.

Keith S · Post by **Keith S** » Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:34 am

"Nordsjöld".

I don't know what it means, I just went to an island with that name in the Arctic ocean and liked the sound of the word. Norwegians named many things in Canada.

EiSvIn · Post by **EiSvIn** » Tue Feb 05, 2013 5:42 pm

I think "ALVA" would be a nice female name matching "ALF".

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