Monorail locomotive running on 16mm Scale trackwork.

Tony Bird · Post by **Tony Bird** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:35 pm

Hi,

Yes! An electric single wheel monorail running on standard track work.

Video.

A visitor to the Cardiff MES Rally brought it to run on our GR.

Photographs and Videos of CMES Steam Rally 2011 can be seen at;

http://www.cardiff-mes.org.uk/Rally%202011%20Video.html

Regards Tony.

SLRmidge · Post by **SLRmidge** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:41 pm

Fascinating stuff, presumably it must be perfectly balanced

:D

RSLR · Post by **RSLR** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:14 pm

That looks like realy great fun but how does it work?

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:49 pm

I presume it has one drive motor and then a motor which is constantly spinning a fly wheel to give it gyroscopic ballence.

Hancockshire · Post by **Hancockshire** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:12 pm

That's clever & it means the owner could run on right or wrong gauge track

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:52 am

Hancockshire:55105 wrote:That's clever & it means the owner could run on right or wrong gauge track

Really cool and very economical too- just think you could have one peice of track and have an up main and a down main on the same peice of track!!!!!

Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:17 am

Thats providing the trains are not over half the track wide.

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