Garden Railway Forum

Hi everyone,
I've been looking at the Locoworks Mechanical Lubricator and I think it would look good on my modified "Katie", but all the pics I have seen show the model lubricator on the L-H side, but because (on our layout), we run clockwise and because the layout hugs the fence, the L-H side is hardly ever seen.
Basically my question is: On a real life Lubricator, would the pipe runs have to face the cylinders (forwards), or can they face backwoods?

Generally, mechanical lubricators on smaller locos supply oil to the cylinders. On larger locos mechanical lubricators can sometimes supply oil to axle-boxes as well.
However if your looking for accuracy, be warned. Two lubricators are used when feeding oil to axle-boxes, one for the boxes containing lubricating oil and and a second lubricator containing steam oil.

This is most obvious on the current Ffestiniog Fairlie Bogies below.
However, I'm not sure what the Fairlie loco lubricators are doing? I'm basing this on my experience of "BR Standard Locos"!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16334400@N ... otostream/

Ah right I see thank you for that!
I'll mount the lubricator further forward then I was originally planning to, atleast it'll look fine now!