Mr_Tilt Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 I'd be happy to, but I don't know my way around RMWeb all that well and haven't a clue where it would go. Could you give me some pointers please? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold deepfat Posted April 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 16, 2021 @BR60103 I do worry about peco they don't seem to making anything. I have friedn in other manufacturing organisations from Rolls Royce (engines), Da Vinci (Westland) and Sunseeker(yachts) and they are still in production. I would love to see innovation at Peco too the loco lift is a good start but needs to have additional removable parts for transit and as you say to create a system for made up trains Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Mr_Tilt said: I'd be happy to, but I don't know my way around RMWeb all that well and haven't a clue where it would go. Could you give me some pointers please? Hi Kit UK prototype discussions would probably be a good place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted April 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2021 My APT-E lives in a 'train Safe'. You can buy a connection piece which enables you to join it to your layout and drive it out or in. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 16, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, deepfat said: @BR60103 I do worry about peco they don't seem to making anything. They certainly are and have posted videos of the current setup although production is spread out around the factory and exhibition space to meet the covid regulations. Remember it’s a small firm to start with and ship globally and after three months shutdown last year were way behind on track especially. My wagons ordered last year finally hit production last month and have arrived so they are catching up. Edited April 16, 2021 by PaulRhB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 16, 2021 9 hours ago, Mr_Tilt said: I'd be happy to, but I don't know my way around RMWeb all that well and haven't a clue where it would go. Could you give me some pointers please? Yes please Kit, here’s a link to the section. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/forum/45-uk-prototype-discussions-not-questions/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted April 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 16, 2021 36 minutes ago, PaulRhB said: Remember it’s a small firm to start with and ship globally and after three months shutdown last year were way behind on track especially. Re Peco, in the early months of the pandemic they diverted resources to the manufacturer of PPE. This reduction of track manufacture, coupled with a bigger demand for track required for 'railway modellers lockdown projects' led to a shortage of track. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold deepfat Posted April 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2021 @mr_tilt I have ordered some trunking to store my latest acquisitio n. Here she is along side a very different take on how to install a turbine in a train 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covkid Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 (edited) 23 hours ago, PaulRhB said: They certainly are and have posted videos of the current setup although production is spread out around the factory and exhibition space to meet the covid regulations. Remember it’s a small firm to start with and ship globally and after three months shutdown last year were way behind on track especially. My wagons ordered last year finally hit production last month and have arrived so they are catching up. I am sure I read somewhere that Peco turned their manufacturing over to producing PPE for a while too. I am guessingf they have now returned to model railway production though. I bought a couple of the former Parkside wagon kits online, and was quite impressed with the new Peco packaging. EDIT as Colin McLeod said before me !!!! Edited April 17, 2021 by Covkid Add Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 2 hours ago, deepfat said: @mr_tilt I have ordered some trunking to store my latest acquisitio n. Here she is along side a very different take on how to install a turbine in a train Yes, very different indeed as the GT3 had mechanical transmission and only one turbine, although with two 'stages'. At least with our ten turbines on E-Train we had some built-in redundancy, and we certainly needed a few times! That pic makes you realise quite how the bodies of the E-Train vehicles were again, doesn't it? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold deepfat Posted April 19, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 19, 2021 My next questions are 1. Has anybody run this thing at 152mph scale speed 2. is anyone mad enough to use Hornby RailMaster. 3. Also the manual doesn't mention the dialogs where you can hear the the engineers confirming the record - I found it by accident and loving it! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 On my club's test track we managed 148 running under DCC control, but the bends are quite tight, 4 ft radius, which is a lot tighter than the GWR mainline. At that speed and radius it would have needed a tilt angle of something over 40 degrees as well! The tape of the 152 mph run was Jason's 'Easter Egg' which he puts on many of his model's sound chips. You can even hear me yell 'Hallelujah!' on there as well. The real, full length, tape is on the APT-E Support & Conservation Group's web site I think, or it was anyway, and that runs right from the very start at Uffington Loop until we stopped at Goring. www.apt-e.org 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 1 hour ago, deepfat said: My next questions are 1. Has anybody run this thing at 152mph scale speed 2. is anyone mad enough to use Hornby RailMaster. 3. Also the manual doesn't mention the dialogs where you can hear the the engineers confirming the record - I found it by accident and loving it! There was a video of one running around a garden layout for a few hours. I think it did something like 170 & covered the equivalent from London to Aberdeen. The real thing couldn't get that far without stopping to re-fuel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 13 minutes ago, Mr_Tilt said: The tape of the 152 mph run was Jason's 'Easter Egg' which he puts on many of his model's sound chips. You can even hear me yell 'Hallelujah!' on there as well. The real, full length, tape is on the APT-E Support & Conservation Group's web site I think, or it was anyway, and that runs right from the very start at Uffington Loop until we stopped at Goring. This page? http://www.apt-e.org/trials/trials.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Skinnylinny said: This page? http://www.apt-e.org/trials/trials.htm That's the one, yes. Well done, and thanks for the link. Ref. the fuel consumption, E-Train had such small fuel tanks that we had to arrange refuelling stops all over the place. On the last run to the NRM we had to stop on the centre road in York Station while waiting for a path, and the fuel state got so critical that we had to shut down six of the engines, three per Power Car, to ensure that we'd actually make it into the NRM Yard! 2 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 87004 Posted April 19, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 19, 2021 4 hours ago, deepfat said: 2. is anyone mad enough to use Hornby RailMaster. Yep. I have Hornby Railmaster. I got it as part of a really cheap trainset from one of these Christmas shops a few years back, Pasttimes? £75 for the Western Master train set. I took a punt and I've never looked back. I've probably spent far more than I need to on IT kit to keep it fed than the Railmaster itself. APT-E works perfectly well with the Railmaster/e-link. There's even an old thread on it on the Hornby Forum. As with all non-Hornby engines you have to type the details in yourself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmotrutta Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 On 16/04/2021 at 12:49, ColinK said: My APT-E lives in a 'train Safe'. You can buy a connection piece which enables you to join it to your layout and drive it out or in. What length is the Train Safe for the APT? They have 15% off at the moment so I'm thinking of getting one. (Too lazy to get mine out of its box...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted April 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2021 The Trainsafe is 120cm long and the APT-E fits perfectly. You might want to get the connector track too so you can drive it out onto your layout. Who has the 15% off at the moment? I need a couple more. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold deepfat Posted April 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2021 so my apt-e is derailing when turning right over just one of my long turnouts (Peco SLE-194) from toe to heel at speed. There is nasty thunk when the front wheel of the last power car (PC2) goes over the frog and as the speed increase so does the chance of derailing. I have checked all the back to backs and they are fine. Also I can get the same result if I just run PC1 by itself backwards over the same turnout. So I am replacing the points with new units and re-laying this area of my layout more carefully. However has anyone else had trouble at speed? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Roy Langridge Posted April 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 22, 2021 6 hours ago, ColinK said: The Trainsafe is 120cm long and the APT-E fits perfectly. You might want to get the connector track too so you can drive it out onto your layout. Who has the 15% off at the moment? I need a couple more. Train-Safe themselves (https://shop.train-safe.de/). I am about to order more as well. Roy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmotrutta Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 16 hours ago, Salmotrutta said: What length is the Train Safe for the APT? They have 15% off at the moment so I'm thinking of getting one. (Too lazy to get mine out of its box...) I got a mail directly from Train_Sfe: DESHALB BIETEN WIR IHNEN VOM 21.04. - 03.05.2021 UNSEREN MESSERABATT ONLINE AN15% RABATT AUF ALLES* *weitere Rabatte finden in dieser Zeit keine Anwendung Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmotrutta Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 14 minutes ago, Salmotrutta said: I got a mail directly from Train_Sfe: DESHALB BIETEN WIR IHNEN VOM 21.04. - 03.05.2021 UNSEREN MESSERABATT ONLINE AN15% RABATT AUF ALLES* *weitere Rabatte finden in dieser Zeit keine Anwendung I won't be getting one now - the postage to the US is horrific - total is Euro 360! I'll have to see if there is something similar this side of the pond.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted April 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2021 Thanks, I got all mine from a model shop in this England, but I’ve not had a answer about getting any more. Posting to the UK to England could be complicated due to taxes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 The various couriers and postal organisations seem to be bent on making their fortunes by thinly veiled 'It's all due to Covid/Brexit' (select which seems applicable...) reasons. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 12 hours ago, ColinK said: The Trainsafe is 120cm long and the APT-E fits perfectly. You might want to get the connector track too so you can drive it out onto your layout. Who has the 15% off at the moment? I need a couple more. 15% off 120cm is 102 cm. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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