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| John-Som:
In my original introduction I did say I would post a pic of model steam locos I built for my live steam garden railway. I built an engine for each of my grandsons to run on a permanent outdoor 32mm gauge track of aprox 80’ in length. The winding track ran amongst the flower beds and over a pond in the garden of my previous house. ‘George’ (blue) was built eight years ago, ‘William’ (red) eleven years ago and ‘James’ (green) eighteen years ago. ‘George’ and ‘William’ are butane fired whilst ‘James’ has a spirit burner. All feature forward and reverse Walschaerts type valve gear and are radio controlled. The engines were built from superb kits supplied by Roundhouse Engineering located in Doncaster (UK). http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/ The engines will be passed on one day to each of my grandchildren as I feel they are likely to appreciate them more when they are a little older. John S |
| Bernd:
Nice John. What scale is that. 32mm gauge track would be close to half of 45mm which would be "G" scale or the LGB. Care to straighten me out? (My wife has tried and failed :lol:) Bernd |
| John-Som:
Hello Bernd If you take a look on the Roundhouse site http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/ there is a section under 'Technical' that explains the different scales far better than I can. Anyway if your wife can't straighten you out I doubt if I could. John S |
| Brass_Machine:
Those are pretty nice looking. How long did it take to build one? Eric |
| sbwhart:
Great Engines John The paint work looks very well done :thumbup:, I realy strugle to get good paintwork :scratch:, I don't seem to have the patience for it. Have :wave: Fun Stew |
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