I beat EDRIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[South-Trethevy]

I did it................
at last i beat the edrig.
MHLR No2 came to visit my line and when hauling a load up the donierts halt head shunt, there was alot of wheel slip but Ben-Ben could not make it too the top!

(to b fair it was wet, steep and she put up hell of a fight)

I BEAT AN EDRIG (with shoddy track that was too steep)
Below: Ben-Ben cooling down after failing to climb the doniert halt head shunt!
Bottom: The head shunt BB failed to climb!

[MTA]

TBH I wouldn't take any engine up that headshunt, it doesn't have a buffer stop!

[SillyBilly]

Sam, I'm wondering if your mamod make it to the top of that with that train ? Sounds like you had fun! I'm sure B-B will do it when it's fully run in.

My railway doesn't really have proper buffer stops, one siding has a couple of masonary nails (this is to hold the siding down!), obviously the extension requires a buffer stop or else there would be a drop of around a yard, this is just a brick with a section of 75lb rail on the top!

[South-Trethevy]

My engines cant make it up...... but i still bat an edrig!

[mhlr]

Yeah yeah! Thats cus u gave me a piece of masonary stone to put in the wagon!!!! Heres a video of my visit! Cheers Sam!

[South-Trethevy]

No probs N E time u wonna visit u can!
It was a laugh! but there wernt enough time.

I wish Dreysen Nans didnt be GAY!

[Spule 4]

I have heard from a few sources that Edrigs do not like grades, but then most small steam does not.

Honestly, I would consider an Edrig, if it were made in the UK and was closer to 16mm scale. Not many quarry engines in the world were over 8' wide and 10' tall

[South-Trethevy]

yeah

[mhlr]

It does do a good job on grades actually, its just that section was like 1 in 20! and wet, so he just slipped. It made it up light tough.

[SillyBilly]

I can't see why anyone can have a problem with them being built in China? It's superb value for money loco and you can always work on it and end up with it better. The Edrig may be on the big side, but it's freelance, perhaps my freelance quarry likes big engines? Great video Pete, I can see why your slways replavcing your I.P gears, you can just hear them being eaten in the video!

Sam,
What you want to do to your railway is file all the bumpy mamod joints doing so that it's easy to get across them, and then fill all the 'elevated' trackwork with ballast(the cheap bags of pebble stuff from the garden centre will do) to prevent the mamod track from sagging when you have large locos on it .

[Matt]

Great video. whats that sound on the creadits, it sounds like a machien gun.

[MuzTrem]

...but then most small steam does not.

I don't know...my Russell once took seventy axles over Amersham bank on the Woodrow Light Railway...admittedly she was slipping a little, but she made it! There is now an Edrig resident at that line so it would be interesting to see what it could achieve...

[steamyjim]

My Cheddar Iver likes going up grades

[mhlr]

Great video.  whats that sound on the creadits, it sounds like a machien gun.

I dont know. I noticed that... Photobucket problem I think.

[Chris Cairns]

whats that sound on the creadits, it sounds like a machien gun.

Matt that is what seems to be happening to some recent videos which are converted by photobucket. I've been using the New Video and Webcam loader which seems to make a better job of it, if a bit longer and requires you to download some files first.

As some people around the world seem to have problems with some websites (and I got a funny error code page earlier when clicking a posting in this Forum), I've started uploading my videos to YouTube as well (just takes a little longer to get them approved and to be able to add a suitable screenshot as the title photo).

[laalratty]

My Caradoc goes up grades well unless pressure is below 40 or the rails are covered in ice, as I found out one day But millie can find it a bit more of a struggle because its lighter, but some very subtle movements of the regulator can help a bit