Narrow gauge Baldwin, "Fairymead"and 0-6-2 Perry, No.7 at Lake Macquarie Light Railway, Toronto.
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Baldwin 0-4-2 "Fairymead" of 1889, Perry 0-6-2 No 7 of 1952 and Malcolm Moore of 1943 at work on the Lake Macquarie Light Railway, a private line which runs for charities, fundraising and by arrangement at Toronto, north of Sydney.
you gotz 2 of my favourite things-Baldwin narrow gauge locos and border collies
Outstanding sound recording.
It's so cute!
Love the railroad dog!
Its a wonderful railway up there.
Awesome video !
So cute! I want one! (I wish)
Hi fairymead locomotive is at mandalong valley tramway
Yes, it is.
Sounds like The Prince at fort George BC
1:25 nice whistle
4:13 what is that locomotive? I think I saw a picture of that at the Illawarra light railway
+Timothy Purser 1943 Malcolm Moore 3-ton gas mechanical, built in Queensland Australia. Has a flathead Ford V8.
Name your price between $150,000 and $200,000. Seriously I’ve been hunting all over the world for exactly that. My local railway is in need on a little steamy
Sorry, it would be like selling a member of the family. In any case it would never get an export license.
What type of whistle has Fairymead got?
It's a Lonergan, single note. 3 inch if I recall.
kinds looks like Grizzly Flats Railroad #1 Chloe
don't see any tender, why not?
All tank engines, Merle. Fairymead carries its water in a rear tank around the coal space
@@BelbinVideo OK, thanks, guess I'm used to a tender behind the loco......
+Belbin Video, I would make just two criticisms here, firstly, shoot in 16:9 wide-screen as obviously you're using a digital camera, and secondly, use transition effects(fades, wipes, etc.) for a smooth segue from one scene to the next. Otherwise these are great videos.
At 2:17, u can hear the wheels are complaining (squeeking). The curve is
too too tight. So what? OK, i'll tell ya. All those wheel flanges on the loco n the
cars will end up sharp n narrow like a pizza wheel cutter. And after dattto,
the flanges will get too narrow, it'll break/chewed off and it can derail the train**.
Make the track radius wider or reduce the wheel base of ea. loco n car unit.
U can reduce the whl bse by removing some of ea unit's axles esp
the outer wheel axles (the axles close to the buffer beams). This s/b OK on
these tourist RRs as there aren't many passengers anyway, less load wt on
ea. car.
And hey! Ask the pssgrs to equalize the weight (2:43). Don't sit on the same side
as datto fatto lady! As u can c from the car's back datto the Left n Rt wheels
r tucked in too close bc. of wide car on this 2' narrow gauge. Too much car floor
overhang from the wheels as viewed from the back or the front of the car.
If u make the curve sharper dan dattto, the train will stop if u go slow and de-rail
if too fast.
More fun to be aware of what's going on than just praise the fish photos/videos.
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**It's a gd ding this na. ga. train only go so slow. If it was a mainline standard
ga train out in the open (nut going thru a city or even a shmall town), it'll go
very fast. Like 60mph or 100mph. Then if the curve is sharp, it'll slice n melt
off the flanges right away. Heavy braking can do the same when the shoes r
nut(not) installed correctly. The rubber on the shoes will be gone fast, then
when the brake is pressed on the brake's steel back plate against the steel
whl tyre, they'll end up welded and of course can de-rail at hi speed. Dangerous!
Typically, the mainline train out in the open will have very wide track radius.
Wow, I'm speechless. You should give that a go.
@@BelbinVideo Nxt time u get on a train,
look out thru ur window n check the parallel
track's inner rail head edge. C if it's shinny or
not. And then at another track's curve, this
time at the convex, chk the same head edge.
U should c no mark, most likely rusted
instead. Also, if u c a freight car parked on a
spur track, take a look at their tire wear
marks and the flanges. If the terminal (end
of the long distance train, like at a shipping
port) train inspectors r doing their job
(carmen), they would have the bad wheels
replaced. They have a special flange n tyre
gauge to condemn or release the rail car.
Oh, don't get caught by a RR police while ur
enjoying inspecting the rail cars. A small
private industrial company yard after 5PM
will b a best bet, not at a RR company's
spur track.
Don't get on the rail car however. U can slip
n fall esp. betwn the cars. The handholds
and even the walkways maybe broken (if the
terminal carmen missed the defects).
As to the rail tracks, u may enjoy how they're
constructed. An old tracks esp. abandoned
one uses steel spikes, steel tie plates, and wooden
ties. The spikes where the use was heavy will have
the spikes popped up like mushrooms! Or even
u'll find some spikes EZ to pull out or laying on the
side. Newer tracks, esp. the Mainline ones use
pretzel like steel curled holding and steel reinforced
concrete ties.
More interesting piece of track would b 2C how a
switch (turnout) is constructed w a Frog and guard
rails to keep the wheels to one side where the switch
stand/box (manual/remotely controlled) is set to the
direction where the train must go. Unlike a H0**
or even 1/32 scale model running on H0 traclk or
even on a bigger Ga. 1 turnout, the prototype's
turnout's point to the stock rail gap is very small,
Like just a little more than 1", not 4" to 6" blown out
to prototype scale of the model ur using. And, these
prototype points at the rear r nut hinged! the point
rails r one piece!
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**It's really s/b called Half Zero or 0-Ga, nut Half Oh-
Gauge. Or Half Oh Scale. It's the 0-Ga track, nut O-Ga
track. So H-Oh s/b called Half-0 ga. Of course,
the US 0-Scale is of 1/48th scale vs. Brit's 0-scale
which is 1/43, a much bigger than the US's bc. their
prototype rail equipment, Locos and cars (coaches,
freight cars, etc) r much shmaller than the US
or their continental Europeen prototype equipment.
U should know why so though nut many ppl know
this, so these ppl call dem H-Oh scale or H-Oh
track. Actually, we shouldn't mix the track gauge
designation w the scale designation, which the
latter is expressed in fractions like 1/87th scale
on Half-Zero track (1 1/4" Ga or 32mm Ga);
1/32nd scale model on Ga 1 (1 3/4" or 45mm) track
If ur technically oriented, u'll enjoy more of the above,
how models relate to the real train, the prototypes
endeavor. The most prized scale model endeavor
is to scale ur model down exactly to the prototype,
such as Proto4, Proto32 ... with exact model body
scale to exact track gauge measurements. The most
important is the model's wheel profile, the dimensions
of the tire and flange, the fillet diam. etc. It helps if
u have a set of machines, a manual Lathe n Milling
Machine to start ... That'll open a bigger n more
capable modeler u'll become (if ur young nuf!)
Cheers!
Thats an 0-4-2 not an 0-6-2
Paul, the Perry is an 0-6-2.
An 0-6-2 has no wheels in the front, six driving wheels, and two trailing wheels in the back, that locomotive has four driving wheels so it is an 0-4-2
Paul, I am aware of that. Fairymead is my locomotive. It is an 0-4-2. The second loco, number 7 , built by Perry, is an o-6-2 as the captions state.
Oh whoops