steam trains (5" gauge)

[Hover Fly]

my father in law has a 2 bed bungalow with a 5inch gauge track all the way around it ...

My ex-boss had a semi and got together with his neighbour to lay a gauge1/ 45 mm track round their houses. It was quite something to be sitting in his back garden and see a cat-flap in their fence open and a Royal Scot and 9 chug over a viaduct and disappear round the side of the house.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My ex-boss had a semi

Snigger snigger.

Seriously though the cat flap makes it sound very Wallace And Gromit, but I bet it was LOTS of fun!

 

[Smokin Joe]

[QUOTE 1954564, member: 45"]When I said I didn't own one, I meant a steam loco. This is mine and my dad's, complete with a Captain Jack figure converted into a BR driver.[/quote]
Wow, nice one. More pics please.

Makes my N Gauge seem a bit tiny.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

[QUOTE 1954564, member: 45"]When I said I didn't own one, I meant a steam loco. This is mine and my dad's, complete with a Captain Jack figure converted into a BR driver.[/quote]

A class 14. Cool!

 

[Black Sheep]

nice teddybear!

quite fancy a deltic myself if I can't have steam.

might have to be electric powered otherwise it'd sound like a hedge trimmer.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

nice teddybear!

quite fancy a deltic myself if I can't have steam.

might have to be electric powered otherwise it'd sound like a hedge trimmer.

A Deltic just drones and drones, I can't think of a less appealing noise TBH, so yes, as well as not making it would like a hedge trimmer, make sure it doesn't sound like an effing Deltic either!

Says me who would much prefer a Western....

 

[Octet]

There is a public garden near me which offers rides on these (until some idiots vandalised it, cost something like £30,000 to repair and was closed for almost a year). I find it amazing how you have so much power out of such a small thing. I am guessing there is some kind of complex gear ratio thing going on behind the scenes? Or is it all pure power?

 

[rusky]

I found this last night

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[Night Train]

A Deltic just drones and drones, I can't think of a less appealing noise TBH, so yes, as well as not making it would like a hedge trimmer, make sure it doesn't sound like an effing Deltic either!

Though I can see what you mean it got me wondering if anyone had even made a working small scale model of a Napier Deltic engine. That I would like to see and hear working.

 

[classic33]

Though I can see what you mean it got me wondering if anyone had even made a working small scale model of a Napier Deltic engine. That I would like to see and hear working.

http://www.enginehistory.org/Convention/2005/Presentations/TomlinsonClen/napier_model_engines.htm
http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Tomlinson.htm

 

[Smurfy]

For anyone who's interested, there's plenty of locomotive p*rn here!

As if that wasn't enough, there's also an absolutely massive archive section of stuff that's been sold in the past.

My own personal favourite is Lion.

 

[Smurfy]

And don't get me started on Black Fives!

 

[02GF74]

i would go to the opposite end of the scale - have a zz guage (think that is correct) set - always wanted one after seeing opne set up in side a brief case .... and unless i am mistaken, you can get steam locos that size ....hmmmm probably am mistaken.

 

[Maz]

The loco just doesn't look powerful enough to pull people (it obviously is, though). You'd think that the engine would tip 'nose up' rather than pull the carriages [and people] behind it.

 

[machew]

i would go to the opposite end of the scale - have a zz guage (think that is correct) set - always wanted one after seeing opne set up in side a brief case .... and unless i am mistaken, you can get steam locos that size ....hmmmm probably am mistaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_scale