Double Headed Mineral working.
Double Headed Mineral working.
Lots of rain and greasy rails nearly bring the train to a complete halt !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y1Mj9CL8JQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y1Mj9CL8JQ
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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
Nice video Jools btw
"What the hell is that?"
"It's a model icebreaker sir."
"It's a bit big isn't it?"
"It's a full scale model sir....."
"It's a model icebreaker sir."
"It's a bit big isn't it?"
"It's a full scale model sir....."
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
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
Never bothered me!!! ;) (and people wondered why I wore a 'Dukes of Hazzard' baseball cap!!!)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!
Very nice video mind - isn't it amazing how the locos just hang in there and get the job done!
It's a Mamod Jim, but not as we know it!
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