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Working on a new layout for the steam locos.

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Can't wait for the movie....... :D
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As a kid, I used to think how cool it would be to make an HO-scale railway all around the old farmstead I grew up on; the hills and bridges and grades it would need would be far more 'realistic' than what you see on the typical 4x8 sheet of plywood in someone's basement "train layout". We have a 200 foot tall hill behind the house, and an HO-scale train climbing all the way up that sucker would require lots of engineering, to say the least.

Of course one good downed branch/tree, or an overzealous groundhog, and there'd be lots of repair - probably on a weekly basis.
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I always wondered what top speed those trains could achieve on a long enough straight stretch. I know on most steam trains the speed is almost unlimited.
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Cool Pitchy! That's a fair amount if track to put down crawling on the ground. Can't wait to see the video.

Reminds me of when I was a kid. In the winter, my dad and I had electric trains on 4×8 tables in the attic we used to work on. Lots of fun.......and warm and dry. :D
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Rusty wrote: Wed May 10, 2017 10:42 pm I always wondered what top speed those trains could achieve on a long enough straight stretch. I know on most steam trains the speed is almost unlimited.
Thanks everyone :)
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Looking good Pitchy :D
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Borregos wrote: Thu May 11, 2017 6:20 am Looking good Pitchy :D
Thanks buddy, we should have it operational today. :)
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Waiting ... waiting ..... watching ..... with great anticipation ... :mrgreen:


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well we got er done, first up was a clockwork Marx loco just to see if it would stay on the track.
Next up was the Mamod but it wouldn`t go dang wind was raising havoc with everything.
So we tried the Bowman and got one lap out of it, dern things must be pretty wind sensitive.
But all and all things went pretty well.

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Very nice, Pitchy. I have a pal from the UK who is deeply into this. Man, that little Marx sure ran like a champ!
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Thanks Bill, those Marx actually have a governor in them to keep them slowed down.
We`ll have that Bowman making a hundred laps before long. :)
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Whooooo hooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanna see that Bowman do the 100 laps.

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J Miller wrote: Thu May 11, 2017 6:37 pm Whooooo hooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanna see that Bowman do the 100 laps.

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Haha awesome bud!
All I could think of watching that is how I would have flipped out to have something like that for my boy when he was young. He loved old steam locomotives.

Great job Pitchy..........again. :D
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When I saw the first video, I was going to be a smart Aleck and ask where was the stinking train? :D but wisely I waited and voila a train appeared. Very neat! God Bless.
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Cool, very nice, awesome, fascinating, and just about every favorable adjectives I can think of.
Elevated track with curves, very nice!!
Nice green background seems to accent it well! :mrgreen:
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Thanks everyone, we`ll try for a longer run today.
Six, nope the track lays flat, all in the wheel flanges. :)
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Great stuff buddy. I'm a nut for steam trains. Been to Chama 3 times to ride the narrow gauge over the pass to Antonita. Beautiful scenery on that trip. I've ridden several more coal fired trains too. Heck, I even ride diesel trains when I get the chance.

There is a steam train fired by propane near here that used to run for about a month at Christmas time with signs telling the story of the Christ. It's a narrow gauge too I think.
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M. M. Wright wrote: Fri May 12, 2017 8:20 am Great stuff buddy. I'm a nut for steam trains. Been to Chama 3 times to ride the narrow gauge over the pass to Antonita. Beautiful scenery on that trip. I've ridden several more coal fired trains too. Heck, I even ride diesel trains when I get the chance.

There is a steam train fired by propane near here that used to run for about a month at Christmas time with signs telling the story of the Christ. It's a narrow gauge too I think.
Cool wish there was a train to ride around here. 8)
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You did a good job laying that track, it's going to be fun watching the different locomotives chugging around it........ 8) 8) 8)
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That's going to be sweet and steam too. Sweet :D
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Thanks fellars, just got internet back, TDS was down in about five states I guess so I haven`t got the latest vids uploaded yet.
Things are going as usual with the trains, problems problems, these things have to have everything working just right.
Burner is the biggest problem getting the wicks to burn hot and stay that way, then the track has to be perfectly level of ya have derailments.
Ya either only have enough steam to run a couple cars then it goes like a bat outta hell but if ya add a car to slow her down then don`t have enough power.
It will take some tinkering to get a good run, and to think these things were made for kids. :lol:
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Here`s one of the runs today with the red loco.

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That's really cool bud! That thing rolls right along pretty good.
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Thanks OldWin, beautiful day around 75 degrees :)
The problem with toys is ya don`t get any work done :lol: hope it wasn`t something major with your jeep.
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I hear you Bro! I got so much I should be doing!
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The latest video was just as cool. Is there any way of adding some weight to one of the cars, probably one third of the cars weight, to slow it down when you want it a little slower? For balance, I would expect it to be better in the coal car or the next one. Putting extra weight all the way to the last car would create a whiplash effect. Maybe you could attach a wire to the bottom of the car and crimp on some small pieces of lead or some other metal for weight and just add it until you get the speed brought down to where you want it.
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Thanks Piller, it`s all in how the burner is working and maintains, when first steaming up the burners are burning high and it has power to pull three or maybe four but as the fuel burns down it looses power so ya have to take a car off to keep it going.
I have to do some tinkering with the burner because it should maintain the same steam pressure longer.

Here`s todays run which went pretty good except for the middle wheels on the loco derailed on a corner, the middle wheels are floaters.

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My little you electric Lionel train came with a piece of track which had a part on it to get the wheels bact on track. It was a plastic piece which was beveled so that it caught the off track wheels and angled them back into the track. It started out slightly wider and lower than the track while sloping up to slightly taller than the track so that the wheels had to go back on track. I place it right after the curve so that any derailment on the curve is fixed right afterwards. Is there anything like that for the gauge you are running? https://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Silver-Re ... B0006KSLLY.
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I`ve seen what your referring too but it`s a track problem I`m having, I`ve redone the trouble making curve and will try it again in a bit.
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sweet are those O gauge. I has a weight car I hooked to a 1099 loco to hold it back a bit. 1099 I think a old lionel.I am going to have to look.
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JOHNNY WACKO wrote: Sat May 13, 2017 11:48 am sweet are those O gauge. I has a weight car I hooked to a 1099 loco to hold it back a bit. 1099 I think a old lionel.I am going to have to look.
Real nice set up congrats.
Thanks, that wouldn`t be steam ?
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Joe this is what it`s supposed to do.

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Pitchy wrote: Sat May 13, 2017 1:50 pm Joe this is what it`s supposed to do.

http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/inde ... odels_234)
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Just had the best run ever, made 55 laps and ran for 30 minutes.
Total distance is 4,455 feet traveled.
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Did you take video of any of the run?
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This run was earlier today, same setup as in that video.
I`m real happy :D
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Pitchy,
That is soooo neat.

Just a curiosity, can you couple two engines together for a double header?

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J Miller wrote: Tue May 16, 2017 7:22 am Pitchy,
That is soooo neat.

Just a curiosity, can you couple two engines together for a double header?

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Great job bud. You got her rolling pretty good now!
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Thanks OldWin, :)
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Is the track it's self O or bigger scale? were you throttle by setting a valve on the loco and let go?
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JOHNNY WACKO wrote: Wed May 17, 2017 10:57 am Is the track it's self O or bigger scale? were you throttle by setting a valve on the loco and let go?
Standard O gauge, not the O gauge that Lionel electric trains use it`s taller rails for the higher flanges on bigger loco`s.
No throttle at all, only thing on top is the safety valve, the loco can only be controlled by the load ya put behind it or by capping off some of the six wicks on the burner, I`m using four wicks in the video`s.
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