@FortheLoveofSteam 1:25 A CABOOSE! With a CUPOLA! THAT'S not a brakevan! I looked up "brake vans with cupolas" to see if there were any I hadn't heard of. Didn't find anything. I also tried to read the words on the side as it went by. No luck. By the way, when you wind up these engines, do they have a brake that keeps them from moving when wound? How long do they run for before you need to rewind them? How hard is it to synchronize two engines?
Ah yes, well spotted! It is indeed a Hornby US style caboose which doesn't come out to play all that often. There is a push lever in the cab which acts as a brake to give a little control. I'd guess there's maybe 30-40 seconds from each wind, but they're all slightly different and can go quite a distance in that time!
That's coming along nicely and is looking good. It's great to hear your future plans for the layout, we are looking forward to following your progress. My grandson has just about got all of the track down on his 009 layout. Hopefully, he'll be uploading a part 3 update on his Dylington Model Railway channel soon. On another point, I'm going to be building a 009 layout myself in the near future. I don't know whether he'll be filming that. He's just posted a stop-motion video called The Postman filmed on our layout Dylington... Cheers James 🙂👍
That's a great layout, isn't it, I've seen it a couple of, and mainly created from scrap items and DAS clay. Great atmospheric video... Cheers James 🙂👍
Awesome to see, being played with as they were built to be. Have a few of these myself in the states, love running them as they're powerful little things and fast!
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I still think this is one of the most impressive steam videos out there. The Ladies are wonderful machines. I love them so much that I built a quarter scale version.
Thank you, I still remember this as one of the most exhilarating steam runs I've ever experienced! They are superb locos, and it's really impressive that you built one!
I discovered this wonderful layout in Model Railway Journal 302 and am excited to see your film of it. (I’m in Canada and with the delay in shipping issue 302 is the most current copy and I’ve just picked up the magazine on the weekend. ) The scene here looks just wonderful. What a delight to see it in operation. -chris
My grandson is going to enjoy watching this. He's uploaded the first video documenting the start of his 009 build, where he is talking about the buildings he's making. That was an enjoyable video....cheers James 🙂👍
That looks like a nice loco to me. We wouldn't have a problem with the compromises. We've enjoyed watching your review. My grandson (12) has recently acquired small england loco Princess, and he's about to start building his own 009 layout. He's intending to film his progress for his Dylington Model Railway channel as an occasional series. I expected it will be slow progress due to school and will only be worked on at weekends and school holidays when he stays with us. He's been doing some filming for it, but I guess the first video may cover the houses he's been building, as he's not put down any track yet. Keep a look out for the first episode, possibly this weekend... Cheers James 🙂👍
Great, I will have to keep an eye out for it! Progress on my own layout is rather slower than I'd like too, probably because I spend more time editing videos than making models!
The only time you really saw the difference between Small and Large England's was back in the early days of the Ffestiniog railway. The first four locomotives Princess, Prince, Mountaineer and Palmerston were smaller with square water tanks and no cabs. They later had iron weights put on the top of the tanks and boiler to improve traction. Then later Welsh Pony and Little Giant arrived and with the exception of a cab, looked like they do today. They were a big step up from the Small's and over time the small England's were rebuilt with the round top tanks and cabs and looked just like the large England's. Till the Double Fairley "Little Wonder" arrived they were the mainstay of the line. Still impressive that 4/6 survived and they are making a replica Mountaineer to look as originally built.
Great comment, I deliberately didn't go too much into the history as the video was already too long; but as you say the differences between the rebuilt small locos and large ones are not immediately obvious, particularly at 1/76 scale!
Aha, yes a valid point I'd already considered watching it back. It actually looks worse on camera as it has no sharp edges, and would require considerable force to do any damage. It also looks like it's making contact more often than it actually is due to the angle! But yes, I will be using something else in future
I am modelling Queensland steam era and a few of the first ones survived. Over 160 years they got painted various colour. So the colour determines the years of operation. The original colour was called "Invisible Green" apparently.
It's a sadly discontinued Rodney Stenning kit on the old ibertren chassis. Sadly hard to get hold of now, but I'm sure when Bachmann release their Sir Handel someone will do a conversion kit, as Fourdees did for Peter Sam. Incidentally, info about all the locos is in the description 😀
Most of these locos are the old Backwoods kits, now discontinued, very expensive and challenging to build well. There are rumours that a major manufacturer has measured the NGG16s with an aim of producing ready to run models, but nothing announced as yet
The whole thing can be assembled in the sitting room if every piece of furniture is removed - for some reason this is not a very popular idea. Can’t imagine why….
Huge isn't it. If you made one like that on your youtube you'd soon get lots more subscribers. I bet all those sounds took some editing. All that stock was kit build before the RTR started coming out - what a job - and the scenics are spot on. Those houses are very good. Every time you see this layout you spot something new. One thing at 05:00 - :30 I don't know if my eyes are going funny, but looking at the motion, do you think the Tasmanian K1 has a different wheel size on each bogie ? The other Garratts seem to be the same . . . .
Aha yes, I can only dream of making something this size! 😂 It really is a layout you can lose yourself in, I must have spent hours in front of it in Manchester, and the quality of the kit and scratch building is superb!
Each power bogie on the Garratts has a separate motor, and unfortunately despite having identical wheel sets and gearing they can end up running at slightly different speeds.
That's very good. So - we've got the absolute 10 favourite, and top 10 best to come ? I suppose it takes ages to edit these . . maybe next year. I'm just trying to remember 2009 . . .
Thank you very much! This one was certainly trickier to edit than most as it pulls footage from so many sources! I'm not sure how I'd be able to be objective enough to pick the "best", but maybe that's something to think about if I was to ever get to 2k 🤣
Very good. Should be topical. Somehow it isn't in the UK. 2'6" is ideal for transporter waggons; just like on the Leek & Manifold had during its short existence. No load transfer. You don't need a main line connection - just a siding to roll onto a line of transporters all shunted up together. Passenger trains running along mostly at line speed - fast enough for a winding uplands line and nice fast acceleration. It's so much cheaper to build 2'6" instead of standard gauge LRT. Less land smaller formation and bridges. Will alongside most roads. Spooner said the festiniog Railway would have been better at 2'6" gauge - but it was one of the first such lines - so a proof of concept. If you build ay 2'6" and electrify using local hydro - you can run your trains up and down the hills quite easily. Bit surprising the Zillerthal was never electrified overhead - I see they're going for batteries. Maybe it's the transporter loading gauge - but surely there's a way round that . . . . I would anyway be in favour of having each transporter ( or maybe a group of two ) draw its own power - no big locomotives needed. Though it would have been a bit of a leap, the festiniog could easily have had some electric locomotives from 1880. Maybe even hauling empties uphill instead of building Fairlies - lots of Hydro-Electric generating potential in Wales - all along the line in fact. That would have changed world history well enough. The Welshpool & Llanfair could have had transporter wagons - but not anymore since the local authority cut the connection to the main line and now built one of these through-the-middle-of-the-town by-passes. ( Actually the original preferred route the W&L wanted - down the valley side, is still I think, useable ). It's a shame it's difficult to model - except for people who like scratch building. It might provoke some thought.
I agree, it's a very smart system for balancing the cheaper construction costs of narrow gauge whilst also minimising the time and cost of transhipment. Shame it never really caught on in the UK, although I've got one for my model railway anyway, picked up in Jenbach during this trip
That looks like a Minitrains Brigadeloc thats had the tanks shortened? I have one of these models and I'm thinking of adapting it. Do you have any pointers regarding this? Also it's not easily obvious how the body comes off?
Yes, this is a rebuild of a Minitrains Brigadelok; Charles posted details of the rebuilding in the Facebook 009 Railway Modellers group. I don't have a Brigadelok myself, but I believe the domes come off, revealing the screws which fix the body
That's a lovely model railway, I saw it at an exhibition last year. A great little video, and well filmed. I've just enjoyed watching this with my grandson ... Cheers James 🙂👍
Nice video 👍 only just found your channel and found it very interesting. I’m doing a OO9 layout on my channel as well and will be keeping an eye out for your future videos for inspiration. Just subscribed 👍 Andy
Very effective, and the lighting shows off the interior of the building also . . . Signal boxes are well worth the effort. Signals look great too - but lots of effort there.
Thanks! I took apart the box from my first layout in order to add an interior, only to find it already had one but it was too dark to see it and I'd forgotten installing it! I decided lighting was definitely needed for this one! I've got some basic hand operated semaphores ready to go, but I'm toying with the idea of trying building new operating ones instead as I never bothered changing the ones on my last layout!
