Isabelle being trialled on the Seibiant Hill Railway

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:17 pm

Hello All,
Hope you had a great Christmas! I certainly did:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mgt0g8NDUPQ

andypt677 · Post by **andypt677** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:05 pm

a great engine and also i really well made video, a job welldone

Maesffordd-paul · Post by **Maesffordd-paul** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:19 pm

Congratulations on your new arrival! The Accucraft Edrig is a great little loco', a very willing peformer and it'll bring you a great many years of pleasure! they also lend theirselves very well to modifications.
Have fun!!!!!

Paul.S

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:50 pm

well done SB, I really cannot wait till mine comes in the next few weeks!

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:59 pm

Very nice Will!

Cant wait to get mine next year!

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:07 pm

great engine William realy love it

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:10 pm

What upgrades you fitting?

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:12 pm

I told you what I'm doing to mine, so yeah, what will you do?

Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:58 am

A very welome Xmas present, and a great video.

Look forward to hearing more about this loco in due course.

Chris Cairns.

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:00 am

yes would love one but jilly says I have to win the lotto first

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:14 pm

Love the video Silly Billy. When my last line closed, I held an open day for the local garden railway comunity. I was expecting a few mamods and small battery engines. Here's what turned up.

An Accucraft Caradoc.
An Accucraft Exesior.
An Accucraft Superor.
An Roundhouse Katie.
Two mamods.
Various small battery engines.

Not bad for a railway made from mamod track and is only 15 yards long!

I wish I was getting an Edrig. Maybe Next year.

Happy New year.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:20 pm

I'm still thinking about what to do to it! At the moment it stands at:

Red Rods or Cranks
Saftey Chains
Lamp bracket on the smokebox and rear cabsheet
Glazed spectacle plates
Smaller pressure gauge
Water top-up valve
Nameplates
Detroit lubricator (if I can source a casting)
Matt Black Smoke Box
Cosmetic draincocks, as described in 'Tag Goton's Live Steam Workshop'
New Regualtor and gas valve handle
Coal bunker on tank (scratch built)
Black Buffer Beam rears
New Boiler Bands
Black boiler in cab, with a brass band
Cream cab interior
'Isabelle' nameplates
Possibly 'Bagnall' workspaltes
Large handrail along the front of the running plate
Injectors situated on the end of the tanks (if casting can be sourced)
Perhaps paint the dome cover
Saftey valve bonnet
Chuff Pipe

I think that's about it for now! I may make a wooden 'drop-on' cab, if I buy a can of the correct spray paint! I'd love a resenator whistle, but not at £80!

ACLR wrote:yes would love one but jilly says I have to win the lotto first

I just did a lot of begging

!

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:13 pm

that's nearly all the mods dscribed in the book! I may do some of them, mostly cosmetic, and I will fit a chuff pipe and maybe a whistle on day...

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:14 pm

I know, and a few more! It's likely to be the only steam engine I have untill I'm 18+ so I'm going to have to make the most of it! Obviously they aren't all being added at once!

Sorry, I forgot the Chuff Pipe!

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:18 am

Pretty much the same mods as i shall do on mine Will

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:20 am

I'm going to make mine unique hopefully with a special formula! Like Columbine is a special one!

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:23 am

Mine'll be pretty unique with it's 4-4-0T Bagnall features

!

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:26 am

your making it into a 4-4-0T? wow!

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:36 am

No, I just want the escence of one.

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:28 pm

oh, ok lol!

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