Very awesome garden railway

J

JCitron

Trainzing since 12-2003
http://youtu.be/jWnJ0-N6dK4

Also a German video.

Is this Gauge I or LGB. I think it's the former.

Really beautiful models and landscaping.

I would love something like this where I live, but the weather would give me grief with the constant fluctuations. I'd spend more time fixing things than running anything.

John
 
whitepass said:
LGB, I have a lot of it. I had an outdoor one for 10 years the big "grief" was Fall leaves and weeds.
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I wasn't sure about the gauge because it's hard to tell by the camer angles.

I also would have the same issues because I live in the same climate as where you live. Southern New England has the cold winters, wet springs, and steamy hot summers, so everything with either be lifting off the ground from the frost heaves, or be soaking in humidity.

John
 
whitepass said:
LGB, I have a lot of it. I had an outdoor one for 10 years the big "grief" was Fall leaves and weeds.
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And how did you resist the urge to build a tank car to spray herbicide along the right of way? (I don't think I could)

Now that I'm buying 10 acres, I might have to get into this.
 
The railway itself looks nice, but I really hate the absence of proper steam and all the presence of all those lumps of plastic in locomotive shape fitted with an electric motor (Diesel and eletric traction are excluded) and crappy sound.
Why crappy sound?
A steam locomotive must be real to sound absolutly right hauling a tran over a railway.
Maybe I'm just a live steam fanboy, but I don't need expensive electronics, I just need a good locomotive (real steam, nothing else).
 
TramDU1214 said:
The railway itself looks nice, but I really hate the absence of proper steam and all the presence of all those lumps of plastic in locomotive shape fitted with an electric motor (Diesel and eletric traction are excluded) and crappy sound.
Why crappy sound?
A steam locomotive must be real to sound absolutly right hauling a tran over a railway.
Maybe I'm just a live steam fanboy, but I don't need expensive electronics, I just need a good locomotive (real steam, nothing else).
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I agree. I'd rather see live steam on steam locos instead of plastic cans with motors inside. Live steam is very expensive, so perhaps people opt for the cheaper easier plastic cans instead.

John
 
Well if you consider a large electric thing with all the whistles and bells (DCC, sound, etc.), the wiring and the track cleaning for a good contact, real steam might be a little bit more expensive, but it is worth it.
And it is a matter of operation aswell. If you want an automatic layout, real steam is almost impossible. If you just to run multiple trains alone, an electric locomotive is off, when its standing and will move with a (almost) constant speed. It's just more relaxed.
If you want to be a driver caring for his locomotive and other locomotives are driven by other drivers and you enjoy driving your locomotive like the real thing, steam is king.
Have a look at http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/. Their locomotives are great (if you like british narrow gauge).
 
Steam ! you guys are talking my language..Have not looked at the websites mentioned here yet bit I will.
Imagine if we continued in the steam era and applied all the new technology as there is on the other tractions where we would have been ? I am sure one could sort out the operation of multiple working ( remote ) with one crew as well. Good water and fuel supply ( oil, propane, gas, etc ) and away we go !

Incidently - I downloaded a little blue propane fired steam loco that is so cool, named DRP Big Steam , don't know much about it, any body know anything more about it ?

Jan
 
Hey you are from South Africa, the country that abadoned modern steam (3450) and steam aswell just for "modern Image".
I know about the possibilities of modern steam, and a lempor exhaust has already been done in G scale (a SAR 26 aswell), but I think, that computerized control systems (like the ACE 3000) and such things as stoker can be done in G scale, but it wouldn't work well.
Comercial Steam is not dead (we in Germany have a few fireless steamers in industrial usage and a propane fired 4-4-0 (made by Crown Metal Products) does work at a theme park) and due to the increasing Diesel costs a modern steam era is quite realistic.
BTW: Why are you talking about "if" http://www.5at.co.uk/ and http://www.dlm-ag.ch/ and http://www.severn-lamb.com/jupiter.asp (the last one is just for parktrains, but they are comercial aswell).
 
Hi TramDU.
Yes I am a South African but I am not going to mix dirty politics and clean trainz :)
Thanks you have put me onto some very interesting articles I did not realise exist.
I did my trade as steam fitter then converted to diesel/electric - not by choice by the way - and I hate to see the steam loco's standing abandoned , cut up and rusting up.
 
TramDU1214 said:
Well if you consider a large electric thing with all the whistles and bells (DCC, sound, etc.), the wiring and the track cleaning for a good contact, real steam might be a little bit more expensive, but it is worth it.
And it is a matter of operation aswell. If you want an automatic layout, real steam is almost impossible. If you just to run multiple trains alone, an electric locomotive is off, when its standing and will move with a (almost) constant speed. It's just more relaxed.
If you want to be a driver caring for his locomotive and other locomotives are driven by other drivers and you enjoy driving your locomotive like the real thing, steam is king.
Have a look at http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/. Their locomotives are great (if you like british narrow gauge).
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Those are awesome. Sadly where I live in New England, they'd be constantly in the roundhouse. We have too much rain here usually to do any decent garden railroads along with high humidity, cold, and extreme heat in the summer. I'd be out there doing more trackwork than running trains. We also have lots of leaves from the oak and maples in the area. My yard has a few trees, but other leaves "migrate here" during the autmn so we get all the leaves in the neighborhood it seems.

John
 
Absolutely brilliant thank you!
On a larger scale and possibly unkown to any but Victorians is
http://www.dvr.com.au/albums.htm
The Diamond Valley Railway.
One of THE most memorable things about growing up in Melbourne! 8^D
Good to see the tradition is still alive and it has even grown considerably
since I was a child. \o/ Wo.oT!
 
Rabbits! I hate rabbits espically in the tunnels, I now use stainless steel rail, cuts down on a lot of work. Live steam, oh lets see I looked at an AC3 that ran a little over $9000.00. I think I'll stick to the electrics.
 
GeorgeCW said:
Rabbits! I hate rabbits espically in the tunnels, I now use stainless steel rail, cuts down on a lot of work. Live steam, oh lets see I looked at an AC3 that ran a little over $9000.00. I think I'll stick to the electrics.
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No rabbits here, just ground hogs which can be just as bad.

$9K. That's a lot of money for a loco!

I like the idea of steel track, but I'll stick to Trainz. At least I can run something without having to mow the grass and rake leaves first.

John
 
$9k is enough for a small 5 inch gauge railway. Not a giant railway system, but for a passenger carrying railway.
And why do people always look for the large locomotives?
 
John: I agree with you,I like the smaller engines also. Even the small 040's will run you into the thousands in live steam and radio control. I've found the older I get the more I appriciate Trainz, cleaning track hurts the old bones, also going out into the garden causes me a lot of fatigue, the boss puts me to work if you know what I mean.
 
Trainz is great and it is cheap, but real steam is real steam.
Real steam is not cheap, but it is just a nice market with small companies bulding locomotives for fair (sadly) prices.
e.g. Roundhouse does actually build their locomotives in Doncaster (Mallard was built in that town) and real steam is more complicated in production and assembly than electric equipment.
and about 1300 pounds for a 0-6-0 T with RC is expensive, but they look great and run great. They are worth the price
 
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