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It's rather expensive, but LGB actually released a special "Track cleaning" locomotive at one point which had a pair of light abrasive pads on the front that rotated in the opposite direction of travel to perform the cleaning of the rails.
With the amount of lead inside that old Stainz model, I'm not surprised by the by it's pulling power, although the traction tire might have deteriorated slightly over time. - By the way, did you know that Locomotive might have a functioning smoke unit?!?! if you turn the loco upside down, you'll see a small metal tab, turn it so that it sits over the nut holding the Stainz's Funnel. Now add a few drops of smoke fluid down the funnel, and watch it smoke away. (Note: need to run it at higher speeds to work) - Oh did you try using the 2 X AA batteries in the Workers light on the maintenance car? They need to be installed in the long black tool boxes on the front end of that wagon. The Controller probably feels cheap because it only contains the basic direction components, and maybe a short circuit/overload protector. Original controllers didn't have the black Main power box, instead everything was inside the controller making it heavy. This of course meant that LGB had to make the same controller but with different International Wall sockets. The new controller cuts down on that cost, kinda.
Its so amazing that that Little Dinky Tank engine can carry nearly 10 cars, with no wheelslip. Aren't there Live-Steam locomotives for G-Scale? That would be an interesting review.
And a very expensive one. Accucraft’s little manual control “set the throttle and it runs until it has no more steam” engines are in the $500 range, not to mention the bigger engines that would actually be able to pull a bigger consist
@✖️ Vito ✖️ my ruby pulls a bachman hoppercar that I weighted down with 10lbs of lead even before I adjusted the safety valve to the 60 psi my boiler certificate is good for
ever since I was a kid I've always been into O gauge but seeing that little stainz run around the floor make me want to build a G scale shelf layout. also, have you been able to get the spotlight car working properly?
hey TrainBoy i dont know why i like your “vibe” it seems weird but i like the music you put in your videos and font that you use for texts its really nice keep making the good work 👍
I have LGB in my Garden Railway that I finished summer last year. Nice to see you back in the G gauge once again. :D Edit: Then again, I used a Gaugemaster controller at the end of the day. More voltage to help my trains around the full garden.
9:09 lol im not that surprised. when the G scale train is set up around the first floor of my house it can pull 10 (sometimes 11) wagons at most: 2 coaches, the crane and orange flat car with truck, an xmas themed present car and water tanker, 2 flat beds, 2 xmas themed passenger cars then the break van and the train still pulls it
I went to my first model train show today and got 4 consists for 20$ Annie and Clarabel which normally goes for 30$ on Amazon for 12$ and a model train diesel engine for 30$ they also had the same LGB construction flatbed
I wanna do G Scale, but it’s so expensive and takes up so much room! Maybe I could join a club for it. Also, I’d look into getting all my G scale engines converted to battery and remote control
Well if you wanna start with g scale, then I think you can have a start model Trainboy did say there's a g scale Winston. And he's a working model. So maybe thay can work for a starter model? I don't know, I'm not much of a g scaler or proper modeler.
Couple tips for the future, you don't need the official LGB track cleaning block. You can get a regular sanding block or honestly, a block of wood, and glue on a piece of wet-dry sandpaper. With wet-dry you have a much broader range of grits to choose from. Next time, if you damp down everything you will get a nicer polish as well. You will also see just how much black-green oxide you are actually taking off the rails, which is why you shouldn't clean track on your carpet.😐😑
I have some track outside which has been there for over a year, I literally didn't clean it once and it still works fine LOL (unless you count that time I had to remove some bird poo with a rag)
If you can make a video about Wallace and Gromit model train props the scale is unknown I thought somewhere N gauge or Z gauge track cause I did saw 2000s model not the 1990s model version of Wallace and Gromit in exhibition when the models visit Australia. 1990s model were destroyed in a fire in a warehouse in UK I'm not sure the prop model trains where in there.
I never clean my track but that's just because my locomotive is a accucraft live steam ruby and the 3 truck shay&4-6-0 are waiting for rc battery power the rough dirty rail gives me better adhesion
ah the LGB scratch the shit out of the rail so dirt has more places to hide block. Well at least the rail is a single material so there's no electroplating to sand through.
so just an aside LGB went bankrupt years ago and had been out of busness for a few years until marklin brought it back back in i think 09-10 so if the controller feels cheap is because its not an actual LGB product its from marklin
He got a fancy track cleaning block and a 1 amp controller no wonder its cheap, 1 amp on g scale for anything more than a stainz is stupid id recomend a 5 amp one(that one also feels less cheap) btw scratches are not really a problem, i clean my tracks with sandpaper
I’ve wanted the 5 but only had the 1 amp available funny enough. 💀 Scratches aren’t as big of a problem on G scale but after awhile they can be, it’s more of a over time thing. I prefer keeping the vintage stuff intact for as long as I can so I’ll stick with the blocks prob
