Thort you might like to see this little movie…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5gBHUCQSCM
tac
OVGRS
Fenland Light Railway
Loved it!
Nice video, but I have 2 questions. First, why are they always going 90 miles an hour, and second, why is no one riding? I’d love to be able to build something like that for the grandkids, but way to expensive on retirement.
1" scale pretty hard to balance on… 1-1/2" scale better for ride on.
Greg
My question; Did he run in Reverse to take miles off the odometer? Like time off a counter…
Fun video, nice sleeper keepers.
John
Some of the guys at in the background WERE riding, mostly straddle type cars…note that all the track was raised and two pipe run along the trestles down a foot or so as guides for the cars.
Neat to see that size running without over scale passengers! I guess that engine must burn gas or something rather than coal Do you know tac?
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AFAIK, this is the one and only 5" live steamer in the entire UK that is radio-controlled, so it sets a precedent, but nothing more.
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EVERY other 5" gauge model loco in yUK has an onboard engineer- usually, because of the somewhat smaller prototypes here in yUK, on a riding car behind the tender. Many 5" gauge models run at ground level on dual gauge track - 5"/7.25" gauge, or raised like this one is in the movie.
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Yes, it IS coal-fired - the wonders of gas-fired live-steamers in the larger scales has yet to happen in the country that invented the locomotive steam engine.
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I guess that when you have north of $60K invested in a ‘toy train’, you can run it just as fast as you please.
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The safety bars on the track trestles are anti-tipping devices that prevent the straddle-style people-riding cars from going any further in the event of a tip.
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You will notice that the track is dual gauge - 3.5" and 5". Here in yUK the standards are different to those of the US and Canada. There you have sensible gauge/scale equivalance that is readily understood -
In US/Can -
US 3/4"/foot scale = UK 3.5" track gauge, but UK models are over-gauged for scale. US scale is correct for track gauge.
US 1" scale = UK 5" track gauge, but US 4.75" track gauge, again US gauge is correct ratio for standard gauge models.
US 1.5" scale = UK 7.25" track gauge, but US [west of the Mississippi] 7.5" track gauge, which is correct for standard gauge models.
tac
That is GREAT ! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)
Wonderful miniature steam trains look so silly with people riding on tiny cars behind them. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)
I second that notion.
RC steam is the way to go. I have to wonder though about the stoker. That thing was running too hot in some of the shots. The pop valve was venting steam for the whole pass in some shots.
Great video, thanks for posting it.
I just love the look of the English country side, always so green, I guess that
has it’s down side. (lots of rain)
Thanks again
Rick
John Caughey said:
My question; Did he run in Reverse to take miles off the odometer? Like time off a counter…
Fun video, nice sleeper keepers.
John
Nossir, he ran in reverse to put some steam back in the boiler. Running in reverse can do that with a well-designed boiler like this one.
tac
Southern Federation branch of the Society of 7.25" gauge Model Engineers
Duplicate post.
tac
David Maynard said:
I second that notion.
RC steam is the way to go. I have to wonder though about the stoker. That thing was running too hot in some of the shots. The pop valve was venting steam for the whole pass in some shots.
Well, Sir, you hafta unnerstan’ that pulling those few lightweight train cars pales into insignificance when compared to hauling four riding cars with up to fourteen full-size and prolly overweight beer-swilling pie-eaters, so making ‘too much steam’ for the load is a given. There can be no such thing as too much steam - that’s what the safety valves are for.
Besp
tac
OVGRS
Rick Marty said:
Great video, thanks for posting it.
I just love the look of the English country side, always so green, I guess that
has it’s down side. (lots of rain)
Thanks again
Rick
Ah, Ricky you must be thinking of Scotland or Wales.
tac
tac Foley said:
John Caughey said:
My question; Did he run in Reverse to take miles off the odometer? Like time off a counter…
Fun video, nice sleeper keepers.
John
Nossir, he ran in reverse to put some steam back in the boiler. Running in reverse can do that with a well-designed boiler like this one.
tac
Southern Federation branch of the Society of 7.25" gauge Model Engineers
I tried that with my truck once, run in reverse to put some gas back into the gas tank., It didn’t work
tac Foley said:
David Maynard said:
I second that notion.
RC steam is the way to go. I have to wonder though about the stoker. That thing was running too hot in some of the shots. The pop valve was venting steam for the whole pass in some shots.
Well, Sir, you hafta unnerstan’ that pulling those few lightweight train cars pales into insignificance when compared to hauling four riding cars with up to fourteen full-size and prolly overweight beer-swilling pie-eaters, so making ‘too much steam’ for the load is a given. There can be no such thing as too much steam - that’s what the safety valves are for.
Besp
tac
OVGRS
Actually, you can have too much steam. Blowing it right out the pop valve is just a wasting the energy used to create it, and, if there is more excess steam than the safety can handle, it could lead to over-pressurizing the boiler.