Garden Railway Forum

Come on, think out of the box: A leaf blower to power the loco which in turn is powered by a petrol generator on the second wagon. :D Or just a non-kerosene-and-also-not-paraffin-because-they're-the-same-and-not-diesel-either-petroleum-distillate powered leafblower. (Autocorrect corrected it to lea...

You could use a battery operated portable vacuum which is what I believe Drew was referring to.

It doesn't run on track, but it's one of the best LEGO models I've ever seen, and there's a whole bunch more on this guy's channel including an Avery traction engine that actually plows! It's impressive how much power he managed to get out of this engine. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrz2B5RTL_M&am...

Yay!

This is something I've actually seen before, well heard of that is.

Apparently there's a lot to be discovered train wise on Chinese YouTube!

I think even my behind-barn railway will have wider radius curves than some of those....

Looks great!

Could be my useless browser, actually probably is, see edited post

Looks great Bertie!

Phil.P wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:52 pm Anyone else have any daft alternate livery ideas?

Wisconsin & Southern red and white? Maybe UP yellow?

As you can see, the <general discussion <off-topic isn't there...
Also, I hate change...

It's air cooled, the hollow thing with the fan in it is a cooling shroud.

Looking good so far, makes my current build look like a pile of garbage..... (I mean, it is but....) Don't be so hard on yourself; my early build were rubbish but I learned by my mistakes (there were heaps of them) and tried not to repeat them. Nobody is a master modeller straight up it takes time....

Looking good so far, makes my current build look like a pile of garbage..... (I mean, it is but....)

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It would, but there isn’t room. It’s not a massive problem though, it’s only a headshunt extension and at the end of a baseboard. The track is floating nicely on ballast and I’ll reconfigure the station when I replace the plank it’s sitting on. image.jpg I had to take the main line lot out again th...

I wonder if it might help to attach a 2x4 under the problem area?

Old Man Aaron wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:01 am I've never seen anything like it. The build quality approaches something commercially-available, but the differing screws between bonnet and roof, and what I can make of the chassis, screams "home-built".

I was thinking it looked a bit on the homemade side of things too...

A better look at the terrain now that the snow has partly thawed.