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- Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:34 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Alf
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1356
Re: Alf
Nice work. The battery voltage reminder underneath is a great idea. Beats my method of "forget, then check the loco's records and hope you've recorded it when the loco was built".
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:22 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The WWLR Layout Begins
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6887
Re: The WWLR Layout Begins
Sorry to hear your life is being uprooted like this, it's not an easy thing to go through. Pleased to hear nobody was injured though.
May the repairs be swift and of good quality!
May the repairs be swift and of good quality!
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3391
- Views: 1113261
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
Good going.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132315
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Damn fine.
I don't know why, but BR blue really suits such a large loco. A nice change from the usual LNWR-style black.
The GIF is a great touch, too.
I don't know why, but BR blue really suits such a large loco. A nice change from the usual LNWR-style black.
The GIF is a great touch, too.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Simplex Yard Shunter
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5900
Re: Simplex Yard Shunter
Very interesting. Looking forward to having a gawk in person.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10717
Re: Next overhaul project....
Sounds frustrating. I hope it's just the grate that sorts it, that is a ridiculous bar gap - even 16mm locos have wider spacing..
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Sweet Miscellany
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5167
Re: Sweet Miscellany
Alright, the job I've been saving for a rainy day. For whatever reason, I was looking forward to filling the wagon with a plethora of tiny tools - that I'd spent far too much money (and time) collecting. Passing time getting over my first bout with The Plague™, several days were spent picking and pa...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:12 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The WWLR Layout Begins
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6887
Re: The WWLR Layout Begins
Beautiful.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:10 am
- Forum: Mamods & MSS
- Topic: tinplate wheels for a mamod
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3004
Re: tinplate wheels for a mamod
If you have the original diecast Mamod wheels with those useless tiny square-shaped flanges, you can get aftermarket machined wheels with proper flanges. I haven't owned a Mamod in almost a decade, but suppliers like DreamSteam and Roy Wood come to mind. Alternatively, you could find someone to re-m...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Identifying source of loco
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1380
Re: Identifying source of loco
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".
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:50 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: LGB rail attachment
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2460
Re: LGB rail attachment
I handlaid a lot of track using panel nails as spikes. I ground the round head to a half-moon shape to improve the appearance. Cheap, effective and looks okay. My track was assembled on the bench (or concrete floor!) but with some care, you could install your new timbers in-situ. I'd get the sleeper...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:39 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: shunting on the SAR
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1086
Re: shunting on the SAR
I see your point re: shunting speeds. Surprisingly quick. Beats pushing 5 minutes doing a scale run around at a crawl.
I wouldn't be game to stand between wagons to couple up at any speed, never mind putting appendages anywhere near it!
I wouldn't be game to stand between wagons to couple up at any speed, never mind putting appendages anywhere near it!
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Simplex Yard Shunter
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5900
Re: Simplex Yard Shunter
Cheers gents! Some pictures of one made by F C Hibberd in 1959 that's in Bundaberg as a loco shunter that may help with painting ideas. Funny that, just about the livery I was planning on. 8) Speaking of Bundaberg, I'm up to Maryborough in September, and plan on visiting ASCR while I'm around. Will ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Simplex Yard Shunter
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5900
Re: Simplex Yard Shunter
28/01/24 Over the past few weeks, a mostly-welded mill workshop cab has slowly come together. Still deciding on adding sliding windows.. Radiator hoses were added to the whitemetal pipe castings by way of heat shrink. Tiny slivers of the stuff were then cut with a razor blade, and shrunk in place to...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The "Bad Old Days" - Anzac Creek Tramway Mk.I, 2014 - 2018 (IMAGE-HEAVY)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9020
Re: The "Bad Old Days" - Anzac Creek Tramway Mk.I, 2014 - 2018 (IMAGE-HEAVY)
No worries Grant, got your message. I'd highly recommend using a flat bar, (preferably aluminium so it doesn't rust away) as a "spine" down the length of both the moving stub and it's fixed diverting section. The real problem I had with these, (besides the superglue and lack of experience)...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Shunting on the wrong track!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1815
Re: Shunting on the wrong track!
I'dve thought pole shunting in such a small scale would be too fiddly to work. Fastening the pole to the loco though, never thought of that one.
They used to do something similar in the canefields, only pulling, with rope. Dangerous, and I'm told, illegal nowadays.
They used to do something similar in the canefields, only pulling, with rope. Dangerous, and I'm told, illegal nowadays.
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Little Wonder
- Replies: 64
- Views: 23672
Re: Little Wonder
Hell of a process. Always a pleasure to see how you do it.
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4321
Re: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
I tried the baking soda on my Simplex a while back, to similar effect. Not for me.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4321
Re: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
You sure know how to pick an interesting prototype. Looking forward to the result, in time.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: N&BLR Ongoing Projects thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19177
Re: N&BLR Ongoing Projects thread
My ignorance of the prototype doesn't stop me seeing the craftsmanship you're putting into this.