Garden Railway Forum

We had some snow on Friday, and thus the weather was uncomfortable on Saturday in Nashville. But it was great today, thus I decided to make this movie. Please enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2beBbZQ4FQ

A lot of people have trouble at this stage of the PDF kits, myself included. Yes, the cranks must be 90 degrees offset from one another. British convention is to have the Right-Hand crank 90 degrees ahead of the Left-Hand one. Reading the instructions at that point on the Hunslet really is painful....

This is the first time I learn how to assemble a PDF Quarry Hunslet locomotive. I always have a problem, not only this model but every steam locomotive when it comes to assembling the crankshaft. For the PDF model, we have to tighten the cranks to the axel of the wheels first before aligning the sha...

I guess the new hybrid train-bus system got inspiration from the garden models. But here, it is testing in Japan.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14055442

mymodeltrain wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:05 pm Sorry, but the forum software doesn't accept and show .tif files.

So I have converted your original .tif picture to a jpeg.

Philip



On a sunshine day,
train station_2021.jpg


train station_2021.tif

Thanks, Philip for your help; I will keep in mind the jpg format.

Sorry, but the forum software doesn't accept and show .tif files.

So I have converted your original .tif picture to a jpeg.

Philip



On a sunshine day,

No idea as to what is causing the hold up. If you are UK based, you might find LocoRemote a more reliable (and cheaper) option http://www.locoremote.co.uk/ Rik Thank you Rik for the information. I didn't know LocoRemote before. But I just contacted them and ordered the remote control board via emai...

No idea as to what is causing the hold up. If you are UK based, you might find LocoRemote a more reliable (and cheaper) option http://www.locoremote.co.uk/ Rik Thank you Rik for the information. I didn't know LocoRemote before. But I just contacted them and ordered the remote control board via emai...

I am planning for some in-door work on the locomotives as usual when the Winter is approaching. One of my interests is to install the bluerail board that can control the locomotive via an iPhone, but somehow, I tried to contact them for the procurement in the past 3 weeks, nobody answered my emails....

It turned out NWSL does not have the right gear for the model. They said this is the first time they heard of gears for USA trains dockside. So my next approach is trying to find a matching pair gear/worm gear with similar dimensions to those I am going to replace. After searching for the gears unf...

Thanks all, for the information. I looked into NWSL and it seems it has similar gears that I need. I just contacted them for the potential match so I can order. USA Trains usually does not sell the gears but they sell the whole 3 axels-wheels as a complete set. But unfortunately, they even don't ha...

These people, a regular stop off for gears to fit US products, in the US might have a drop in replacement https://nwsl.com/. Perhaps try USA Trains direct http://www.usatrains.com/usatrainspartsmenu.html . In the UK Markits could be a starting point http://www.markits.com/ or some other finesacle s...

These people, a regular stop off for gears to fit US products, in the US might have a drop in replacement https://nwsl.com/. Perhaps try USA Trains direct http://www.usatrains.com/usatrainspartsmenu.html . In the UK Markits could be a starting point http://www.markits.com/ or some other finesacle s...

These people, a regular stop off for gears to fit US products, in the US might have a drop in replacement https://nwsl.com/. Perhaps try USA Trains direct http://www.usatrains.com/usatrainspartsmenu.html . In the UK Markits could be a starting point http://www.markits.com/ or some other finesacle s...

My locomotive's gear broke; I notice 2 teeth are in bad condition, and this is the third time I encounter this problem. I wonder if there is any service to create brass gears? I hope the lifetime will be longer than the plastic counterparts.

I have had a few of these, first I find a plastistrut tube that fits over the mount and cut to length, assuming it will not interfere with re-assembly, I the fill the screw hole and crack with plastic filler, and glue on the plastic ring. I normally leave 24 hrs and then pilot drill out the hole, a...

Thanks,unfortunately the forum software won't display .tif files, but I've downloaded it and this is it converted to a jpg screw mount.jpg I can see what your problem is and it isn't uncommon, I've seen the same thing myself many times. I'm not aware of any commercial repair kit unfortunately, beca...

Thanks,unfortunately the forum software won't display .tif files, but I've downloaded it and this is it converted to a jpg screw mount.jpg I can see what your problem is and it isn't uncommon, I've seen the same thing myself many times. I'm not aware of any commercial repair kit unfortunately, beca...

philipy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:52 am Not altogether sure I understand what you mean by "screw mounts" ?

I attach herein a photo of a broken screw mount

I did some maintenance for the locomotives today, and I found a few screw mounts either crack or totally broken. I wonder if there is a kit available for patching up these broken screw mounts?