dan_the_v8man

Potential idea for the other side of the garden. The straight line across the top goes off to the cabin above the return loop. I'll probably add some sidings at a later date

A bit of gauge and clearance testing tonight

The rockery 1 year later (actually 1 year and 1 week) but how it's changed...

After a year of no progress I decided I better do something! Originally the railway was going to carry on climbing and go over the roots of a lovely old Acer. However over winter it died which meant cutting through the roots was no longer an issue. Cut back about 5ft of the existing concrete so the gradient could be reduced My method of marking radi... The 5 foot I took up got smashed up and reused And of course as soon as I got the concrete down and floated the heavens decided to open! The line is going to continue you around the top of the garden and back down the other side to a second loop and a branch line off into my cabin

What's the plant growing next to the track bed? A variety of Thyme?

I've just purchased a new addition to the fleet from Tower Models I've not converted it to battery yet and this one is having something a bit different

Through the winter the projects been on pause but couldn't resist having a play in the snow, so one of the 08s came out of hibernation

Personally I run my Heljan Class 20 on 00 Gauge Loksound V5 as the current drawn the Class 20 is quite low

So no compatibility with later locos?

Fantastic! I've only ever had one up to 30mph with about 400t behind it, would love to have driven one at speed, though they don't look like the smoothest of rides

That first video looks like the 20 isn't far off its 75mph limit!!

Any examples? Not found anything on Google myself so far, but then again I might be looking for the wrong thing

I remember seeing a photo of a 31 + a pair of 37s all in different liveries in Rail magazine, must have been mid 90s

That's ones of the things I wondered about with different classes, they behave, perform and drive completely differently, driving them in MU must be interesting and easy to overload one of the locos

Don't think it was for that reason as the pair worked a return working! But yes it's often the reason you see double headed working these days just to move the locos about as you say

Yes they were regularly diagramed to BOC workings

37s were just the first loco I thought of, 40 + 25 seems like an odd combination

Does any one know of any other classes working together in multiple like the blue star equipped Class 40 and Class 25 shown below? Also any idea why it was done? A pair of 37s would have had similar power output and tractive effort

Swap the wires over coming back from one of the motors

Wow! Though may I ask why is what looks like an indoor layout sat in the garden?

Won't go wrong with a Facom set, though you can buy them individually too

Did exactly that and got a couple of boxes to put me on for a bit

I'm after Flexi track more than anything! But I will certainly be ordering a few bits from them

As per the title, does anywhere have stock of 00 Code 100?

I'll give it a go and upload the results!