Afternoom, folks, had a great time yesterday with visitor topshed [well-known over on another LS forum] who brought along his recently completed Regner Shay - built from the kit and thereby saving over £300. He has made a great job of this Rube Goldberg-esque steam-powered ‘shed’ - mostly built of stained wood with the whole thing held together by bolts and brackets. The twin-cylinder oscillator motor was not only self-starting, but seemed to run on a mere puff of steam, for sure there was less than 10psi when it first began whirring into life. I won’t go over the few issues that he had when building it, but remark that it took him less than a week of evenings [and he is a VERY busy man], and that there are some idiosyncrasies that will be very familiar to anybody with a Regner locomotive, but would be very puzzling to just about anybody else [me, fer’instance].
Watching it trundle around my little track with a few log cars and shorty van was a pleasure, and I commend the model to you wholeheartedly. I also commend the support from the team at Glendale Junction here in UK, who provided much-needed support in the form of certain parts that were needed to enable the device to run at all.
I’m hoping that topshed will join us here - he has an enviable and interesting collection of LS steam as well as electric locomotives, and a v. fine and photogenic railroad to run them on. Those of you who already know him will agree that he would be an asset to this forum.
tac
www.ovgrs.org
PS - HE took the movies, I simply held the water bottle and provided the cakes. Sadly there was no pie of any kind - this country does not understand the concept of that well-known axiom by which all right-minded and G*d-fearing persons should order their lives, namely that ‘pie maketh the manne’.