IP Engineering 7/8ths Ruston

[astropsidings]

Its been a while since I posted much on here. The North Hampshire Minerals and Forestry Railway is no more, but there is a little known industrial tramway operating just north of Salisbury......

I bought an IP 7/8ths Ruston kit at the Peterborough show, and it is now more or less completed.

I built it for 18 inch gauge with extended side frames. The motor was replaced with a Heljan O Gauge spare from Howes Models (https://www.howesmodels.co.uk/Railways/ ... rodID=7012), the worm fitted to the motor shaft meshing perfectly with the IP gear wheel supplied with the kit. A suitable sound card was bought from Mr Acme. Radio control is from Deltang (http://www.deltang.co.uk/), a TX-22 transmitter and a tiny RX60-22W receiver and speed controller. Control is very smooth, quiet, and the loco will run very slowly. I've since put another receiver/speed controller in my Accucraft Baguley (which has been fitted with the same motor as above) and that runs really nicely too. The transmitter allows selection of up to 12 locos with a rotary switch. There hasn't been much steam haulage on the Sarum and Stratford recently.......


A few pictures:













Ian

[tom_tom_go]

Excellent Ian.

Could we have some details on your weathering?

[jay1976]

Thats very nice I also like these small industrial trains..
nice ogher loco in 3rd pic pulling the tippers

[astropsidings]

Could we have some details on your weathering?

The weathering is the same as on the skip I did. See http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/about7222.html and scroll down a little for an explanation. Paint is again Just Like The Real Thing BR Southern Region green.

The other loco with the skips is my Accucraft Baguley with a replacement cab.

Ian

[steamie1]

Fantastic! is the track32mm in the shot/

[astropsidings]

The track is 32mm Peco, or about 18 inch gauge in 7/8ths scale


Ian

[Catweasel]

Due to size of 7/8 th loco's and stock, it probably looks better on Peco Forth Bridge rail.

[astropsidings]

Due to size of 7/8 th loco's and stock, it probably looks better on Peco Forth Bridge rail.

The rail section still looks a little heavy perhaps.....

I intend building a small 7/8ths scale exhibition layout using Peco IL-7FB rail, as used in their 7mm scale flat bottom track. This should look quite light, but seems to be in short supply at the moment.


Ian

[Catweasel]

Marcway do a Code 124 ff/b rail if you want to build your own.

[IrishPeter]

Back home in Lincolnshire, the local industrial tramway was built out of recycled standard gauge material - so it was chaired 75 and 95lb/yard bullhead track for the mainline.  This was ballasted with broken pantiles and any other stuff they could dredge up. The remainder was 'Jubilee track' for the moveable sections by the claypits.  The recycled SG stuff looked a little heavy to say the least. Total length was about a third of a mile of which the first 350 yards was bullhead.

The transition between the two was interesting.  It was basically compound fishplates blown out of half-inch mild steel with a gas axe and tidied up.  Where the ground was articularly boggy they left the SG sleeper ful length to spread the weight rather than sawing them in half.  The little Ruston there replaced a horse, and was in turn replaced with a Lister.

Peter in AZ

[jay1976]

does ut pull a realistic load? seeing as it looks single axle drive..I know my steamplex will pull 1 open coach and a wagon like the real sized one.

[astropsidings]

does ut pull a realistic load? seeing as it looks single axle drive..I know my steamplex will pull 1 open coach and a wagon like the real sized one.

I made mine single axle drive although it is straightforward to drive both axles. However, as mentioned on the IP Engineering blurb about the kit, it will pull quite a significant load. The bonnet is white metal, so not light! I also filled the whitemetal gearbox with lead shot to counterbalance the bonnet, plus the couplings are also white metal castings, so there is plenty of weight on the driving wheels. I did change the motor of course.

My line is anything but level, but the Ruston slowly trundles round with much more than a prototypical load.

ian

[jay1976]

Woild like to see a pic with a few tippers behind.. I have seen these kits and wasnt sure what they was made of or how heavy they are.. Mine would be 16mm(sm32)

[astropsidings]

Woild like to see a pic with a few tippers behind.. I have seen these kits and wasnt sure what they was made of or how heavy they are.. Mine would be 16mm(sm32)

The frame and tool box is laser cut plasticard, and the rest is white metal, other than the chassis which is mdf. Mine weighs 1.5kg, but if built straight from the kit it would be a little less. Mine is built for 32mm gauge (but it is 7/8ths inch/foot scale not 16mm/foot).

Some pictures (I have a picture with some skips as well, but it won't upload at the moment):
Chain Shunting; With my Accucraft Baguley:

[astropsidings]

Working now!

[Dannypenguin]

That looks brilliant