Roundhouse have announced their latest engine

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:21 pm

Proper pictures now up. It's stunning, apart from those rivets. One day....

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:59 pm

Could we have a link to the pics please?

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:02 pm

One of the posts on the first page of this topic has the link
I agree with sillybilly the rivits spoil it a bit but otherwise Roundhouse have excelled themselves again

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:06 pm

Wow! Great loco. I actully like the rivits. Are they overscale to everyone else or something?

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:09 pm

Yeah there are a bit oversize really, as someone on the e group said, "trying to make something that is inconspicous from a distance stand out" (or something like anyway)

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:11 pm

That's brilliant!!!!!!!!!

Even with the rivets i'd love it

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:16 pm

Same here. I think that roundhouse should do models of real locos more oftern.

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:25 pm

Aye, I remember that first attracted me to the Roundhouse Russell was that it was based on a real engine I had seen. Now if only I had the cash I'd be buying a Taleisin and a Penryhn Hunslet to run alongside her...

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:37 pm

Yeah, the Penryhn Hunslets are really good. I hope that one of the main compainies will sometime soon start making a Lynton and Barnstable 2-6-2. The only company that crurently produce these is DJB engineering, and the ones they make cost a fortune. Roundhouse could produce one for about 1/4 of the price, and I bet it would look almost as good as the DJB model.

Anyone else agree with me?

garratt100 · Post by **garratt100** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:17 pm

Matt wrote:Same here. I think that roundhouse should do models of real locos more oftern.

Fully agree - the K1 Garratt would be nice for next year please Roundhouse...

Chris.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:50 pm

I feel that once the appropriate black border has been painted where the rivets are they will blend in much better. personally I would have to make an ashpan for underneath the firebox.

Roundhouse have produced a slip-eccentric L&B loco in the past, www.roundhouse-eng.com/museum.htm scroll down to 1990.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue May 13, 2008 12:35 pm

I know about the old L&B tank loco that roundhouse use to make (ptlrcecil's got one), but they only produced the first three locos in their rather ungainly ( in my opion any) origanle form before they were rebuilt. I'd like it with they brought back the egine, but make 3 versions- origanles unrebuilt, rebuilt, and a model of my favorte L&B loco, Lew.

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:33 pm

garratt100 wrote:
Matt wrote:Same here. I think that roundhouse should do models of real locos more oftern.
Fully agree - the K1 Garratt would be nice for next year please Roundhouse...

Chris.

Aye, they need to make a Garratt!!!!!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:15 pm

Hey, I've got an idea. You know roundhouse already produce Russell, and here we're suggesting that they should make a K1, which is also based on the welsh highland, and Accucraft aready make models of the big garrets and the Baldwin, so why don't Accucraft and Roundhouse team up, and make models of all the steam locos owned by the welsh highland, past and present.

I'm sure it'll get a lot of interest.

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:26 pm

If only, but would the 2 biggest players in the market team up? I doubt it I think. I like the idea of a K1, it would be some machine though I still would like a double Fairlie

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:46 pm

Well roundhouse have teamed up with other compainies before in the past to produce engines.

Now that they've produced an 0-4-4 fairlie, they will quite likely move on to 0-4-4-0 fairlies, or maybe they'll produce an 0-6-4 welsh highland fairlie.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:36 pm

A fiend mentioned that he thought it would be unlikely that Roundhouse would produce a double fairlie as the boiler would be a tad complicated for their easy to use method. I also believe I read on the Mamod forum that a member had spoken to RH and told him that they weren't.

I'd rather have a Taliesin and a train of Barn Carrs.... *drools*
Trwyn-y-Garnedd specials

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:44 pm

Aye a boiler would be difficult. It could be done though.

Maybe use 2 seperate boilers? Cover the gap with a fake removable firebox

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:52 pm

steamyjim wrote:Maybe use 2 seperate boilers? Cover the gap with a fake removable firebox

Like my mate said, that would be hell to write the instruction manual for, you'd have to fill two boilers, equal steam usage, double gas tanks, ect...

It's not going to happen, I'm sure they'll sel the power bogie seperatley, if you wanna try yourself!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:11 pm

yeah, but the K1 garret won't be as complicated, so maybe they could produce that.

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