Відео

After lots of false starts with large complex narrow gauge layouts I decided on this small and simple plan. The layout name comes from The Land of Green Ginger - a street name in the city of Kingston upon Hull where I grew up. The name has inspired a few literary works so my work of fiction is in good company. I hope to add some suitable mine buildings and scenery but for now I'm just enjoying watching my little trains running.

@attuslebeard5133 I'm sure it'll come out nice. I fully understand just watching your trains go round.

Thanks Patrick - yes they make some nice coaches, I'm still trying to get a brake version of the 4 wheel coach.

Thanks Tom. I'm glad you liked it

@ thanks for your response. Btw, I tried to download your track plan, but got an error message that the link has expired..

@@tomsmaerklintrainlayout6742 Thanks for letting me know about that. I have now updated the link.

Thanks Tom. I enjoy running a variety of trains in both scales - I will be adding a narrow gauge track soon so I can run my OO9/HOe trains too.

@ great, once I’ve replaced 4 of the Marklin C-track sidings with Trix C-track curved turnouts & Bachmann EZ track (I bought a box of 100 9-inch straight pieces in the beginning, I can run 4 trains simultaneously…

@@tomsmaerklintrainlayout6742 Sounds good - I thought about changing one of my tracks to 3 rail but the crossover tracks I have on the layout made it too complicated.

Thanks Patrick

Thanks very much - glad you like it

I'm glad you like it. I will update the video soon as I have some PKP coaches and a diesel loco too.

It is - well spotted. I repainted it into British Railways multiple unit green to represent the trams used on the Grimsby - Immingham tramway.

@@attuslebeard5133 I've been looking at these for some time, I'd quite fancy a set and repaint it in two-tone green, the standard Italian urban public transport livery between the late 20s and 1971, a livery that lived on well into the 90s in some places.

@@patricksmodels Sounds good. I got mine from ebay for about £20. Mine runs nicely though with a slight waddle.

Thanks Patrick. I bought the Budd unit without a motor and managed to motorise it with the short wheelbase Lima bogie from the FS low floor driving coach . Some of the 3 pole Jouef motors had very poor magnets so ran extremely hot and very slowly. I discovered that the Lima CC21000 loco chassis is a direct swap for the Jouef CC72000 (Just needed the solid glazing units opening out to give more room for the motor ). I am on the lookout for another CC21000 to remotor the Jouef CC6500. Those stainless steel coaches are plentiful as both Lima and Jouef made trainsets with them and the CC40100. Yes the 67000 is the classic French diesel - so many versions of this in model form. My bb16500 has the same later Jouef motor bogie and it's very smooth running.

@@attuslebeard5133 you did well to recycle the motor bogie from the FS low floor pilot coach, it shouldn't be powered anyway, they were used on push&pull trains, "treni navetta" usually powered by E626 locos.

@@attuslebeard5133 I've heard that Jouef open frame motors tend to get weak magnets. Mine are in good condition luckily. I wonder how they'd react to that British magnetiser many model train enthusiast have.

@@patricksmodels Yes it always puzzled me why Lima put a motor in that. Oh well I made good use of it - though it does make the Budd power car ride a bit too high.

@@patricksmodels I did consider getting one of those magnetisers after seeing it on OO Bill's channel but they are a bit too expensive for me. I now only have two good 3 pole Jouef motors - they are both in BB13000 flatirons (though I repainted one of these locos into maroon/yellow livery to represent a CFL3600).

Yes I'm pleased to have got the Belgian one as all my other HO steam locos are German. I'm amazed that it incorporates a moving radius rod/bar - none of my modern super detailed locos have this.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yes the Gutzold is a recent find for me - it growls and waddles but it can run really slowly and pulls well. I've seen them in blue and red liveries too.

I've been on that route a couple of times (in Summer luckily) in the opposite direction to get to Venice and Trieste. I enjoyed visiting the railway museum at Trieste. You may have noticed in the video the KMB 1080 and 1180 do not have coupling rods - the chassis on these locos both have mazak rot so are now unpowered.

​@@attuslebeard5133 I'll look closer, I hadn't noticed. What make are they? I watched the video on the phone, I'll watch it again on the computer.

@@patricksmodels They are Kleinmodellbahn.

@@attuslebeard5133 thanks, is zamak rot common in Klein Modellbahn products?

@@patricksmodels I have seen it in many examples of these 2 locos and also the 1046. Not sure about their other locos.

Yes indeed. I need to update this video as I've got some PKP coaches and another loco SU45 diesel. The EU06 is my favourite due to its similarity to British Rail class 83

The layout is built around the walls of an 11' x 11' room. 4 separate tracks with passing loops at the station. I have far too much stock but I like steam, diesel and continental railways so there's always something to collect!

Yes I plan to do that

Thanks Patrick. The teaks are the cheap Hornby Railroad ones with a sepia wash to tone down the plastic finish

@@attuslebeard5133 they look very realistic now.

Yes the Lima have the usual pancake motor bogie. The Dapol one has a central motor with flywheels and cardan shafts to drive the bogies. It's a very heavy but super smooth loco - I used to have this fitted with DCC sound but have since reverted to DC.

It's amazing the vivid memories that model railways can evoke - great story. The piano ribassato coaches took me a long time to find - even then I had to be satisfied with the odd grey driving trailer. For some reason this coach had a motor bogie fitted though I've since removed the pick ups and gears to make it free-running.

Yes I remember so many colourful liveries back then in my Interailing days

Yes I quite agree about the pickups - and no flywheel to help it across the gaps.

Yes these are 1/76 OO - a little bit bigger than märklin though same track gauge (16.5mm). Yes one of the blue ones is the famous Mallard.

@@attuslebeard5133 YES that Desing i like so much, hard to find in 1/87 scale? verry nice track to show long trains, so much action, i will have a look at your other videos is there one that shows the whole track? greetings Stefan

I don't think anyone has made a 1/87 A4 class - maybe Trix will make one in the future... I have updated the link which shows a plan of the whole layout- I don't (yet) have a video showing the whole track.

Hi - thanks for the comment. Yes it runs well for its age. I keep searching for the version to match these MDVE coaches

@@attuslebeard5133 OH searchin for matching Passengercars for my 424 got me crazy, as i started to look for the märklin ones they go so expensive even if just tinplate and no interior ??? i got some "Carrozza Lima Castano Isabella Fs Prima Classe" did not yet got them together HOPE that Lima is not bigger than the märklins... if i got my italian train on the rails you wil see a video from me =) i found here by searching for thing an FIAT ALN it is DC should i show it on my littel DC Fleischmann track where i filmed the BB 67001 with heating car? if you like it to see

Thanks Darren - welcome aboard

Thanks for commenting and for subscribing.

Thanks for the kind comments and for subscribing

Yes I think I have been lucky with my 56s - they all seem to run pretty well and are controllable. My two peaks and most of my other Mainline locos just do their own thing - zoom around the layout and then slow to a crawl and then take off again

Thanks Eddy

Thanks Patrick

Interesting times. My memories of Italian Railways are from the 4 Interail holidays I did between 1989 and 1992 - all before the xmpr era so I particularly like the old brown locos

Yes they do look similar - though I still had to modify the J50 body quite a bit to change it to a Q1

@@attuslebeard5133 that sounds slightly epic 😁👍🏻

Yes it was a long story involving a D49 a Q6 an O4 and a J50! @@dutchbeef8920

@@attuslebeard5133 it looks great and thanks for sharing

I think these models are good quality and value so I hope the box van is as good.

Indeed - and some rare track for them too

Thanks. Would have liked some more footage but they didn't stay very long

Q. Where were the passengers?

@@trevorhart545 Gone for a mooch around the shops and minster. The ECS went back to Hull and returned later

Thanks Anthony. The signal box is a laser cut kit by Lcut Creative

Yes, quite a contrast

Thanks - I'm glad you liked it.

@@attuslebeard5133 Thanks very much for replying to my comment. Like the work you are doing so l subscribe to your channel to improve mine to get some great ideas. Thanks DD.

I thought so too. They both have the same Lima motor but sound different

Thanks Charlie.

Thanks - I'm glad you liked it. I will probably post a revised version when my new Deltic arrives

@@attuslebeard5133Look out for that and thanks very much for replying to my comment. That's the great part about the hobby sharing ideas and learning new ideas from other people to improve our Channel's so l have like and subscribe to your channel too .Stay safe DD.