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Hey Folks, Well a little bit has Happened Lately.....,

Robin is Red carded for the moment due to needing new piston rings ..

Hoping i can have my Baldwin Done soon though!

Mitch

Got to ask Mitch, how come new rings so early in it's life.
Grant.

Hey Grant, I have ran robin pretty much every week since I got it but the RHS ring desperately needs replacement for it to run again.

Mitch

Hey Folks, Been busy with school to post much pics lately but i havent died off completely, Robin is Back from Overhaul and it double headed with goblin on Saturday Night . Enjoy the Pics!

Mitch

I like the busy shed scene.

I'm guessing you didn't have any hands free for photography while you were double-heading two manual locos - one of them a Mamod?! Sounds fun though...

Andrew.

I agree with the shed photo. Love the steam.....

Good to see "Robin" back in steam. How does "Goblin" run? I had an MSS years ago, but gave up on getting it to work and sold it on.
Love the running shed too. One of these days I'll have to build one like it.

Hey Aaron, Goblin goes well enough for a tablet fired mamod, normally half a lap on my line before she runs out of fire.

Thanks for all the Compliments folks.

Mitch

Hey folks, a few months has gone by since i last posted so here we go..
The Biggest news of them all is after some negogiations mr In Spectre is visiting the CCT!! so i will be doing a report on that soon enough...
Now for the Purchases List ..
4x Bachmann Tippers
1x Bachmann Porter which is due to be converted to battery power as soon as funds permit for a locoremote reciever .
Mitch

Hey All, sorry for the lack of postings, working a part time job and having a car + Volunteering at two railways has taken up a lot of my time for running Steam trains in my garden lately, All the locos are performing well, the porter is due to be converted to Battery Power very soon by a friend of mine for use on the CCT .

Mitch

Mitch stack wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:04 am Hey All, sorry for the lack of postings, working a part time job and having a car + Volunteering at two railways has taken up a lot of my time for running Steam trains in my garden lately, All the locos are performing well, the porter is due to be converted to Battery Power very soon by a friend of mine for use on the CCT .

Mitch

Good to hear from you, Mitch. I like the way one of your reasons we haven't heard from you is "having a car ...." I can somehow see how owning a car can be time consuming ... Certainly my first couple of cars proved to be very time consuming as I must have spent more time repairing them than driving them .....

Rik

Good to hear from you, Mitch. I'll throw a "me three" in with you both on fixing the car.

Nice engines, those Porters.

Hey all. been a good few months since ive updated .
The trackwork in the cutting is being reworked as the foundations are being relaid.
I have gotten my Bachmann Porter Converted to Battery Power by a friend of mine.
Ive also aquired a bachmann lyn 2-4-2 (Newer Version) which will be converted to battery next year.

Good to hear from you Mitch. The newer Lyn is far better than the original version which was under-powered. The new one also includes a chuff cam as standard which is a useful feature if you intend using a soundcard.

Rik

Hey All, Apollogies for being so long between postings, a fair bit has been happening on the line as of late.

#1 a Accucraft Mabel has ordered and is due for delivery very soon, will be manually controlled and a 0-6-0, gotta work out a name for it now

#2 the track has seen some improvements and the biggest work will be commencing shortly with the releveling of the trestle bridge.

#3 Two Battery Powered Locos have Joined the fleet, a Bachmann Porter that i have mentioned in the past has been converted to battery around 12 months ago, and a Bachmann Lyn 2-4-2 (newer Run) has also been converted.

Will post more shortly once mabel and the bridge are completed.


Happy Steaming ,

Mitch

Forgot to Add These Pics last post ,had my 21st birthday steam up in September, thanks to Alexander (MelbourneSparks) for taking the pics for me The ESET SP Car passes through the tanks at the summit of the grade The Thermo Electric Tram is Assisted by the ESETs Ruby SP car on the trestle for a photo stop Thermo Electric Tram runs through the cutting Various forms of motive power and rolling stock at the loco A roundhouse Lilla with some slate wagons pauses on the trestle for a quick pic .

Enjoy the pics ,

Happy Steaming

Mitch

I like the SP car, where can I find more info about that?

The SP car is a scratch built unit with a mix of marine steam products adapted to conventional rail use. it’s a mighty fine machine and runs superbly well.

Mitch stack wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 2:38 am The SP car is a scratch built unit with a mix of marine steam products adapted to conventional rail use. it’s a mighty fine machine and runs superbly well.

I wanted to know if you had a thread about it on the forum, or something else on the internet somewhere. It looks very interesting, and impressive!

Unfortunately no thread on this forum at all to my knowledge, it belongs to a friend of mine and I believe he is planning to put one up at some point.