Monday, 26 April 2010

Earthworks update

As you can see below, much earth has been imported to the back garden from a project in the front garden.  Today I laid out a circle of track to work out how wide this earthwork would need to be to accommodate the loop back on itself.  The answer is about 1.8m.

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Sunday, 25 April 2010

Bogies for the Gladstone

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I wanted to add the bogies (and couplings in time) to the Gladstone so it can be ready for gauging and power trials once the garden earthworks are completed.  Thus with a bit of drilling, countersinking and screwing tonight we have one carriage with wheels!

Monday, 12 April 2010

16mm show - the debut of Rough Pup

Check out this video of my engine passing some of the other 100 Hunslets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNivf5k10_M

A great time was had by all (show report coming soon) and Rough Pup performed well.