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Looks good as a diorama, BUT its a pity you say its not salvageable....parts abound around and it could look dilapidated and still power machinery

Get rid of the box on top and its a bit like the Guinness converter truck for their small locos!

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Cambrian parts are great fun and cheap. The chassis is flimsy and as said other than a light engine (ideal for small diesel as the noise is great no need for sound card) Personally beef it up with another layer or use as a template for brass and use the parts that came with the kit to join it togeth...

Love it..... great fun

I agree with peter, best left as it is...you see the loco and rolling stock better as a result.

Thank you nice gesture

This has been posted on 7/8ths.info by 'ashe' and I thought its one for us to see also

http://www.nrc.nl/inbeeld/2013/11/05/el ... kabelbaan/

It was me that asked Chris and thanks for the photos, it makes sense now

Looking at the one built by the late Peter Jones, he felt that he should have used chain and not the stretch belts...do you find them stretching?

Crackingjob

It must be settings as I saw them.

The couplings look just right, good choice...though if you go visiting and pull borrowed stock you may need a converter truck..yours couplings one end and the standard pin at the other

Great job

Hi hope you don't mind but I emailed the US magazine Garden railways editor and posted a link to this blog...maybe someone in the US can sort it out!

In the meantime your loco looks good...there would be a market for these I am sure

In fact a little look at your engine it has only one pipe into the chimney if thats the case it is an early TE1A made in 1967 9for one year only)...see this great guide I found... and scroll down

http://www.mikes-steam-engines.co.uk/mamod_2.htm

Personally I would have it in a shed on a base so it could be brought in for safe keeping etc....and when running put it outside running some sort of lay shaft etc....they are very easy to get up running...less than some fancy laser cut wagon...and a great side show when you have an open day Looks t...

Anyone got the answer yet...does it leave traces on the boiler, and is it any good?

Glad to help  and actually the whistle will be a nice touch.
As I was going through pictures on my inspiration wall I came across this I can't remember where I found it.. (I hope not to confuse the issue...but thought its good for the thought process)

I think two pots on top would look better and hide the valve...try this from one of the books I inherited from my late Dad...(I know its an articulated loco but it gives you an idea) ./myff/1649522/Scan0015.jpg Actually I like this style of loco...we don't get them in the UK I think brass turned pot...

Great...must finish mine...not as good as yours...more Java cane ish

Rickity ...my kind of railway..
Crackingjob (also Diplock winner)

Wonderful wonderful...must look

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-24498481

This posting was meant to be a bit of light humour with winter drawing in....... not glory seeking!!..hope you can see the funny side. I agree re hero's... I am not one ...but have worked with many and known many who have passed on through my 36 years of Crown service....(I'm a bit touchy about that...

Four minutes and I was only 1/2 a minute of it...there was more of the glory boys and the helicopter...travelling to an incident....they cut the best bits...its a fickle life