bigwordsmith

Fascinating theme - this is my take on the same subject or would be I can work out how to add pics on the iPhone

I'll do it later on the laptop

Thanks Ray

Funnily enough now that I've actually got a decent circle completed I've found that if you connect the tenders using the long shank, so the fall plate isn't fouling the tender front, the Peppercorns can pull like a train - 10 coaches from a standing start on a 1:110 isn't bad at all. In that  respect the simplest answer is to lose the fall plate or reshape it, but you will need a decent vice to do that

I've not yet let the standards loose. Fortunately I'm modelling the Waverley Route so can genuinely run 4/5 coaches and be prototypical

Keep up with the comings and goings at Waverley East...

http://www.rmweb.co....13#entry2053958

Ray

I've only just discovered this post and thank you for it - I have 5 Bachann Peppercorns on my layout ( http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/73196-waverley-shed-somewhere-in-edinburgh/page-2) and some of them struggle to haul their own shadow!

THis is OK in a loco shed layout, but as I'm on the point of starting a new line( once our kitchen extension is finished) which has a 20' run at 1 in 76 up which I plan to haul 8-coachers, I need to do something about it, and this article is hugely useful, so I've bookmarked it!

I note that a number of the Bachmann standards I've acquired have the same problem - have you encountered and fixed that?

Peter

Interesting model - what did you use? Kit or Hornby bash?