RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:26 pm

philipy wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2018 6:58 pm Very nice Tom, good to see that low speed.
Needs a driver though, that big open cab looks awful empty.
It amazes and infuriates me to see so many live steam locomotives without drivers in their cabs. I thought the whole idea of live steam was to enhance the realism
of the model? Without driver figures they are just runaways!
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:37 pm

Is that all you took from that video I bothered to produce?

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Post by Hydrostatic Dazza » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:48 pm

The smooth realistic speed.
That is nice
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:54 pm

Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:48 pm The smooth realistic speed.
That is nice
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:06 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:37 pm Is that all you took from that video I bothered to produce?
Not at all Tom, I fully appreciate the effort you have put into creating a wonderful model which is superbly controllable at slow speed. My remark was not directed at any particular individual, just that having spent time watching so many youtube videos posted by proud owners of beautiful locomotives, steam or otherwise, so many are let down by the lack of footplate crew. Strangely these same people go to extraordinary lengths to place figures at stations etc. but the image of the incomplete locomotive is striking.
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by LNR » Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:35 pm

Depending on the loco, there often isn't room in the cab if there's RC servos in there as well. In my own case, driving manually I've got to get very over scale fingers in there, so "guilty me Lud".
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:32 am

Well Tom I love it with our without a driver, but I do get Peter’s point and I don’t think he was pointing any fingers, just making an observation about others.

More videos please with or without crew, preferably when it’s not has cold....Brrrrrrr :thumbright:
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by bazzer42 » Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:32 am

Cracking viewing but you call that snow...we have huge 3 inch drifts! The wind has been, and still is, a bone chiller so credit to you for getting out there.

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:40 pm

Hopefully with winter far behind us on the RWLR we can start to resume evening and weekend running.

The new PW bogie wagon earning it's keep clearing the leaves before a run:

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by markoteal » Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:19 pm

Now those are "leaves on the line"!
Where did I put that uncoupler?

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Gralyn » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:57 am

I wish the leaves in my garden were so well behaved. They just won't stay still for a photo to be taken.
Or are you using some mysterious Leaf Glue ?????????....... :)
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:24 am

Don’t have any leaves yet, they went in the gales we had a few weeks ago. :lol: :lol:

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:35 am

I use mind control to keep the leaves in position although I have not mastered keeping them attached to the actual tree which is my ultimate goal.

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:36 am

Let us know when you do Tom…. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:40 pm

I believe summer has finally arrived in my part of the UK so here are some sunshine shots I took over the weekend:

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by bazzer42 » Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:00 pm

Bit of sunshine does get the juices flowing, did some weeding yesterday and actually steamed my Willi. I even set to on a small shed this morning but didn't allow for the thickness of the wood when gluing the back. :oops: Think it is time to resuscitate Fairway :D

PS love the Cricket, mine is rather drab in comparison and the wrong scale!

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:11 pm

I am very pleased with Cricket. It was second hand and apparently received a Royal Mail handling service although I reckon the seller sold it because it had taken a tumble.

When I got it I removed the archaic R/C system and fitted a Deltang set up with a new battery and sound. It has now become my first runner before my live steamers (and can even pull a dead steamer!).

It needs a paint job though, something like this:


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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by jim@NAL » Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:31 pm

nice pics in the sunshine

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:51 am

Love the old coach Tom..and the cricket looks great…would you do the lining yourself or get a full repaint and change the colour… :thumbright:

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:53 am

By the way Tom, I do realise that the paintwork looks good on your Cricket…

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