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pauly
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by pauly » Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:35 pm
Oily Rag wrote:Today I was at the South Devon Garden Railway Group club track at Buckfastleigh station in South Devon. Amongst the very friendly bunch of local members I met Tag Gorton of Garden Rail fame and Alan from Dream Steam.
Tag brought along the latest IOM coach from Accucraft and I can confirm it is as good as it looks!
Alan had a Mamod/MSS loco fitted with his latest upgrades.
I can't say what they are now. But I can say that the loco was amazing!
It pulled a rake of 12 Mamod wagons around the track with ease.
And at a nice steady pace Not only that but it looked fantastic!
I want one.
Eric
go on
tell us
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by ACLR » Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:36 pm
Alans mods are great Im happy with what ive done to my mss has turned it into a powerful little engine
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by steamyjim » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:09 pm
Oily Rag wrote:
go on ;)
tell us :twisted:[/quote]
It's just R&D at the moment, so it may or may not come to market.
But things could be looking up for the lowly SL1
Eric[/quote]
Tell us...and well giv some reports back to Alan about what we think. Theres some research
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by bungle80a » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:22 am
The big question is, will these mods rival 'The Worlds Most Powerful Mamod' owned by Cecil?
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"Who has stolen the 3 link coupling off the end of my train?!?!
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by mhlr » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:28 am
Columbine's having some of that.
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by steamyjim » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:11 am
mhlr wrote:Columbine's having some of that.
And COS
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by alan2525 » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:42 pm
Is this the steam exhaust resonator condenser thing in the smokebox too?
Ya gotta love Mamod Locos, they are crying out for all those little extra bits to be added!
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by pauly » Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:23 pm
any news on this mystery engine then yet?
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by ptlrcecil » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:24 pm
bungle80a wrote:The big question is, will these mods rival 'The Worlds Most Powerful Mamod' owned by Cecil?
Thank you Bungle
See vid
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cyz-zjHEwxs
Dreamsteam Eat you heart out.
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by SillyBilly » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:35 pm
The thing with your one is that it looks the same really, and that means even if Dream Steam beat the record, that has how many add-ons? Black Beauty is unique, apart from now when it's like all other mamods (leaky).
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by Chris Cairns » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:47 pm
And let us not forget the tweaking done to those open wagons.
Dream Steam loco is a commercial development so you will need to wait for the official announcement just like Accucraft, Roundhouse, etc.
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by ptlrcecil » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:06 pm
The only tweaking is a set of thrust washers to stop the ends of the axles binding on tight corners. That and centre buffers and a lick of paint. Thats it!
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by SillyBilly » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:02 pm
That's ok, but that's not a proper chuff. You wana hear the double failrlies or a pair of englands climb up past my house, pure magic.
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by pauly » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:58 pm
or an engine going over the steepest part of the NYMR (sounds great and the resulting sparks sometimes start grass fires)
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by ptlrcecil » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:28 pm
Oily Rag wrote:I think Alan got up to 22 wagons before the loco wheels started slipping. :D Not just lightweight open wagons either! :P
I expect there will be someting on show at Exeter if not before.
What a brilliant "chuff" on that loco in the video!
One of the best I've heard apart from the real thing like this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-gees9 ... re=related
Eric
Any chance of a video alan. How do your wagons compare in weight to steel mamod open wagons.
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by mhlr » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:05 pm
Oily Rag wrote:I expect there will be someting on show at Exeter if not before.
I will look forward to that, I want to get my ol' Columbine into shape to be able to actually work well on my line!!!
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by ptlrcecil » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:01 pm
Im an appretice. Trust me Im used to it. P.S Long live Sparkes Engineering!
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by Mamodevon » Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:07 pm
ptlrcecil wrote:
Any chance of a video alan. How do your wagons compare in weight to steel mamod open wagons.
No video but a pic or two from today's run at Buckfast.
She took 13 wagons and coaches plus tender full of water today, but I have had her pulling 20 plus tender full of water, with the ore wagons full of granite from the path. All rolling stock is always Mamod/MSS of steel construction.
Alan
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by steamyjim » Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:52 pm
WOW!!!!! ME WANT!
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