Hi Wolfgang, I have a soft spot for Garratts especially the narrow gauge ones. Have you ever seen the NGG16 Garratts on the Welsh Highland Line. They weigh 68 tonnes running on 2ft gauge track and their boilers are 5ft wide. A good UA-cam link is at 04 clemea > Welsh Highland Railway from the lineside 9th August 2016
Good morning Ralph, I had the same feelings. Summer is coming now! Just drive and enjoy. I also have to practice a bit so that I can drive slowly like you do 🙂. Best regards, Henry
Hello Henry, Quite often I get told off on my UA-cam videos that I'm "driving" my engines too fast, even if someone else is doing the driving. Yes of course it is far more prototypically realistic having the engines going slower. What some people don't grasp is that the typical wide angle lens that most of us use, creates the false impression of the engine's speed by increasing the distances that are being covered. As for going really slow I was surprised that the higher geared C Class seems by far the best engine at going slow, perhaps I will film it going as slow as possible. It's a far cry from some of the earlier engines which had only two speeds, Fast or Stationary ! Best wishes, Ralph
Yes, you are right, the camera perspective must be taken into account. In the past I used to drive the locomotive very carefully alone (out of sheer fear and ignorance) and it promptly whizzed off like a rocket. Often enough she ended up off the track. I had laboriously adjusted the controls and somehow there were still new problems. Much was the result of ignorance of the context. When I dared to hang a train behind it, the locomotive was like a new one. At first I had no feeling for the steam tap. Things went fast or very slowly or, as you said, too fast or stood still. It took me a long time to become brave and get a handle on all the locomotives from then on. At that time, however, the remote control (40 Mhz) was another adventure in itself. A lot has changed there. In particular, I have learned to think ahead, to be farsighted and to try everything out with my own hands. But - 🤭then the phone rings or my wife calls me, boom - something happens. Since I am powerless. An evening greeting from me.@@megapowerchannelsunc
Hello Ralph, a fantastic machine the Garratt, very nicely presented. Wish you a nice weekend. Greetings Wolfgang
Hi Wolfgang, I have a soft spot for Garratts especially the narrow gauge ones. Have you ever seen the NGG16 Garratts on the Welsh Highland Line. They weigh 68 tonnes running on 2ft gauge track and their boilers are 5ft wide. A good UA-cam link is at 04 clemea > Welsh Highland Railway from the lineside 9th August 2016
Good morning Ralph, I had the same feelings. Summer is coming now! Just drive and enjoy. I also have to practice a bit so that I can drive slowly like you do 🙂. Best regards, Henry
Hello Henry,
Quite often I get told off on my UA-cam videos that I'm "driving" my engines too fast, even if someone else is doing the driving.
Yes of course it is far more prototypically realistic having the engines going slower. What some people don't grasp is that the typical
wide angle lens that most of us use, creates the false impression of the engine's speed by increasing the distances that are being covered. As for going really slow I was surprised that the higher geared C Class seems by far the best engine at going slow,
perhaps I will film it going as slow as possible. It's a far cry from some of the earlier engines which had only two speeds, Fast or
Stationary ! Best wishes, Ralph
Yes, you are right, the camera perspective must be taken into account. In the past I used to drive the locomotive very carefully alone (out of sheer fear and ignorance) and it promptly whizzed off like a rocket. Often enough she ended up off the track. I had laboriously adjusted the controls and somehow there were still new problems. Much was the result of ignorance of the context. When I dared to hang a train behind it, the locomotive was like a new one. At first I had no feeling for the steam tap. Things went fast or very slowly or, as you said, too fast or stood still. It took me a long time to become brave and get a handle on all the locomotives from then on. At that time, however, the remote control (40 Mhz) was another adventure in itself. A lot has changed there. In particular, I have learned to think ahead, to be farsighted and to try everything out with my own hands. But - 🤭then the phone rings or my wife calls me, boom - something happens. Since I am powerless. An evening greeting from me.@@megapowerchannelsunc