Thank you , the only thing in N scale is that it works best in 1 direction more so but can be made to work in both directions if you're good at making them but they're easier to make in HO scale for both directions.
nice simple idea and wont break the bank :) Im toying with the idea of modifying the peco SL-330 manual uncouplers to work in a similar way with the rods/leavers hidden under the base board :)
That's a nice simple device for use with the standard Rapido type coupler. As for Roger Metzger's comment: The poster of the video is Australian, so it's not "the King's English" from Britain that you're hearing! As for the trains, they are Australian prototypes. The maroon one is from the New South Wales railways, and the blue and yellow one is from the state of Victoria. Australian N scale modelling is quite interesting and worth a look. - Paul Ingraham, Coordinator, AsiaNRail Modular Group, San Francisco Bay Area, California
Thanks Paul for your comment , I live in Perth Western Australia so I model anything "Ozzie" in both HO & in N scales , the 2 loco's in my video were converted from American SW9/1200's where I've made 1 of them into a 73 class of the N.S.W.G.R. while the other loco was converted into a VR "Y" class , Roger's needing to learn proper "Ozzie" talk which I'm happy to teach anyone who's having troubles understanding it ; find more of my modelling via my website ( Kev's Workshop )if anyone should want to see more of it.
Thank you Modbot , it came about from a neccessity & it works well , although not perfect , but it is best for 1 way direction running if done correctly ; check out my website called "Kev's Workshop" to see more of what I do.
Nice simple ideas....problem with the shirt box lid idea, is that you can only ever uncouple the carriage directly behind the loco. If your pulling say, 8 cars, and want to drop off the last 2, this method wouldn't work.
Hi William , it's set up for fairly medium to heavier loco's to drive over in 1 direction only ( for N scale ) at the end of a section of track for running around the train , but it could work on almost any train in a yard if modified slightly to suit the purpose & it does work in the HO / OO scales quite well as this idea was originally used in the 70's & 80's era as I used to have 1 back then but thanks for the comment anyway.
It was probably in the 70s before I tried to converse with someone who spoke English. (I was born in Iowa and, before that, I only understood American.) I'm still trying to learn English but, for now, I'm only understanding one word out of three or four. We now live in Maine. Do you know of anyone in central Maine who can teach me English?
Thank you Roger , there's no problems learning English but I do live in Perth Western Australia ( worth looking up via Google Maps - you'll be surprised!! ) , I'm happy enough to teach anyone "Ozzie" talk if you're wanting to learn??? , see more of my modelling via my website ( Kev's Workshop ) - there's a link via my You Tube channel.
Locoman3801, Thanks for replying. My parents read to me every day, often with me sitting on their laps while (whilst?) they ran their fingers along under the words they were reading. It was thus that, by the time I was five, I could read well enough to study maps. I studied maps of everything including maps of the moon and maps of the bottoms of the oceans. I don't know exactly when, but I learned where Perth, Australia was when I was very young. My parents gave me my first toy train set when I was six--the least expensive Marks electric train. The next year, my maternal grandparents gave me two pairs of manual switches (turnouts?), a 90* crossover and some additional track. The next couple of years, they bought me a working block signal and an automatic crossing gate (also from Marks). Once or twice a year for the next several years, my parents gave me inexpensive accessories such as a set of plastic telephone poles, a water tower and plastic houses. When I was thirteen, my dad had an accident at work and used the insurance money to buy me my first Lionel train set--a GP7 freight train in O-27 which meant that it would run on the Marks track I already had. The next year, my mom (mum?) bought a Lionel 2-6-4 steam freight set, ostensibly for my dad, also in 0-27. The next year, my dad bought a Lionel SW1 and three Lionel passenger cars for my younger brother, Ed, also in 0-27. Over the next several years, we created several layouts that could run two trains hands off or three trains but using the block signal--which, by that time, my dad had modified so it could be operated by remote control. In the mid-1970s, my GP7 was stolen and I haven't had the wherewithal to buy any electric train equipment since that time. (I wouldn't have this Chromebook if my wife hadn't given it to me.) I think Ed has my dad's 2-6-4 but he lives in Pennsylvania and, for the last several decades, I have seen him less often than once a decade. I still find trains interesting, however, so, this morning, I watched a couple of the videos on your site, Kev's Workshop. The whistle between segments of one of your videos sounded a lot like some of the whistles on some of the steam trains that were still operated in the 'States in the '40s and '50s. Did you know the young fellow from Perth Who was born on the day of his birth? He was married, they say, on his wife's wedding day And he died when he quitted the Earth.
Thanks Roger but I'm not too sure of who it was that you're referring to here in your questions above , but I do know of who it was that stole some of my HO scale loco's from out of my "locked" workshop & I'm not very happy with him at all , This person had a long list of crime against his name so we're told ; I just had of wished that I'd known sooner of his "criminal" activities before hand. :-( E-mail me via my website by going to my "Contacts" page as I have 2 e-mail addresses that you can use to contact me on. :-)
Wow! Thanks that was super helpful, gonna try these on my layout.
Thank you , the only thing in N scale is that it works best in 1 direction more so but can be made to work in both directions if you're good at making them but they're easier to make in HO scale for both directions.
nice simple idea and wont break the bank :) Im toying with the idea of modifying the peco SL-330 manual uncouplers to work in a similar way with the rods/leavers hidden under the base board :)
That's a nice simple device for use with the standard Rapido type coupler.
As for Roger Metzger's comment: The poster of the video is Australian, so it's not "the King's English" from Britain that you're hearing!
As for the trains, they are Australian prototypes. The maroon one is from the New South Wales railways, and the blue and yellow one is from the state of Victoria. Australian N scale modelling is quite interesting and worth a look.
- Paul Ingraham, Coordinator, AsiaNRail Modular Group, San Francisco Bay Area, California
Thanks Paul for your comment , I live in Perth Western Australia so I model anything "Ozzie" in both HO & in N scales , the 2 loco's in my video were converted from American SW9/1200's where I've made 1 of them into a 73 class of the N.S.W.G.R. while the other loco was converted into a VR "Y" class , Roger's needing to learn proper "Ozzie" talk which I'm happy to teach anyone who's having troubles understanding it ; find more of my modelling via my website ( Kev's Workshop )if anyone should want to see more of it.
This is a very smart Idea very cool
Thank you Modbot , it came about from a neccessity & it works well , although not perfect , but it is best for 1 way direction running if done correctly ; check out my website called "Kev's Workshop" to see more of what I do.
Nice simple ideas....problem with the shirt box lid idea, is that you can only ever uncouple the carriage directly behind the loco. If your pulling say, 8 cars, and want to drop off the last 2, this method wouldn't work.
The idea is good but I can see this derailing the car(s) and or locomotive at the same time.
Hi William , it's set up for fairly medium to heavier loco's to drive over in 1 direction only ( for N scale ) at the end of a section of track for running around the train , but it could work on almost any train in a yard if modified slightly to suit the purpose & it does work in the HO / OO scales quite well as this idea was originally used in the 70's & 80's era as I used to have 1 back then but thanks for the comment anyway.
It was probably in the 70s before I tried to converse with someone who spoke English. (I was born in Iowa and, before that, I only understood American.) I'm still trying to learn English but, for now, I'm only understanding one word out of three or four. We now live in Maine. Do you know of anyone in central Maine who can teach me English?
Thank you Roger , there's no problems learning English but I do live in Perth Western Australia ( worth looking up via Google Maps - you'll be surprised!! ) , I'm happy enough to teach anyone "Ozzie" talk if you're wanting to learn??? , see more of my modelling via my website ( Kev's Workshop ) - there's a link via my You Tube channel.
Locoman3801, Thanks for replying.
My parents read to me every day, often with me sitting on their laps while (whilst?) they ran their fingers along under the words they were reading. It was thus that, by the time I was five, I could read well enough to study maps. I studied maps of everything including maps of the moon and maps of the bottoms of the oceans. I don't know exactly when, but I learned where Perth, Australia was when I was very young.
My parents gave me my first toy train set when I was six--the least expensive Marks electric train. The next year, my maternal grandparents gave me two pairs of manual switches (turnouts?), a 90* crossover and some additional track. The next couple of years, they bought me a working block signal and an automatic crossing gate (also from Marks). Once or twice a year for the next several years, my parents gave me inexpensive accessories such as a set of plastic telephone poles, a water tower and plastic houses.
When I was thirteen, my dad had an accident at work and used the insurance money to buy me my first Lionel train set--a GP7 freight train in O-27 which meant that it would run on the Marks track I already had.
The next year, my mom (mum?) bought a Lionel 2-6-4 steam freight set, ostensibly for my dad, also in 0-27. The next year, my dad bought a Lionel SW1 and three Lionel passenger cars for my younger brother, Ed, also in 0-27. Over the next several years, we created several layouts that could run two trains hands off or three trains but using the block signal--which, by that time, my dad had modified so it could be operated by remote control.
In the mid-1970s, my GP7 was stolen and I haven't had the wherewithal to buy any electric train equipment since that time. (I wouldn't have this Chromebook if my wife hadn't given it to me.) I think Ed has my dad's 2-6-4 but he lives in Pennsylvania and, for the last several decades, I have seen him less often than once a decade. I still find trains interesting, however, so, this morning, I watched a couple of the videos on your site, Kev's Workshop. The whistle between segments of one of your videos sounded a lot like some of the whistles on some of the steam trains that were still operated in the 'States in the '40s and '50s.
Did you know the young fellow from Perth
Who was born on the day of his birth?
He was married, they say, on his wife's wedding day
And he died when he quitted the Earth.
Thanks Roger but I'm not too sure of who it was that you're referring to here in your questions above , but I do know of who it was that stole some of my HO scale loco's from out of my "locked" workshop & I'm not very happy with him at all , This person had a long list of crime against his name so we're told ; I just had of wished that I'd known sooner of his "criminal" activities before hand. :-(
E-mail me via my website by going to my "Contacts" page as I have 2 e-mail addresses that you can use to contact me on. :-)