We Have joined the big boys

Graham-Jilly · We Have joined the big boys

Just bought this sorry about the picture quality its a picture of a picture.
It runs on 7 1/4 inch wide track and is coal fired. it also comes with a caboose
better pics when I pick it up in two weeks

MooseMan

WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Pictures, video, smellovision - we need it all, and we need it soon!!

BRILLIANT!

whistleman

Oh my......................must've cost you a pretty penny! VERY NICE!

Cam

SMELLOVISION - MOOSE!

BUT THE SMELL OF BURNING COAL IS AWESOME

its very american

cant wait for more pics etc Graham and Jilly

IndianaRog

G&J...hats off to you, looks to be a real beauty...yup, runnin' with the big boys now!!!

johnreid

Oh my! That is definately drool worthy. Please post better pictures when you can, and some of the Caboose too ( so they call them Caboose in Au too? Guards Van in UK )

Graham-Jilly

Rog it went for a price I couldn't resist

John the original owner called it that but its still a guards van to me but its really a us design I think

Pictures when we pick it up

paul_c

That looks great, I knew you had the railway hat for a reason

Steve_S

Wow, that looks nice! Are you going to lay some track for it?

Les

That will be great fun to run, is your new garden big enough for it??

Stitch

Fantastic. What a monster

That is going to be a lot of fun. Does this mean some changes to the garden railway?

Graham-Jilly

rangerssteamtoys

What an amazing loco! I cant wait till you get it and show us more pictures

Stilldrillin

Ooohhhh........ That`s nice!

The little loco construction is going to take much longer now.....

Graham-Jilly

David Ill still be working on the little loco

xlchainsaw

thats terrific. there was guy around the corner from where liz lived at fernyhills .he had one about that size and had a track right around his house. the last i saw of it the track had been taken up and stored behind his shed. just maybe............???????is it a ride on???

Graham-Jilly

yes Glen its a ride on mate

cant wait to get some better pics of it

xlchainsaw

wonderful!

Sandman

Jeez, how did I miss this?

What a fantastic engine.

Can't wait to see more.

Mamodman123

I missed it too!

Well done G+J!

Keep the Mamods though

Graham-Jilly

wont be getting rid of the mamods mate

bessytractor

your going to have a lot of fun with that (and trust me, you WILL end up with another one! Its a 7 1/4" thing!)

dampfmaschinenjoe 1967

Jilly and Graham,

you did what I am supposed to do : Buying a coalfired ride on garden railway loco ! You lucky ones !

Maybe when I win at the lotteries it´s my turn

cheers Joe

Bugsy

If you decide to enter it in the next EOM contest you can count on my vote!

steamgranny

Graham-Jilly

counting down the days before we go pick it up would have been today but Im oncall so have to hang around here and its a 2 hour drive to go get it. so next Saturday is the day

thanks every one for you lovely words

johnreid

Dang, a whole week, that has to be torture. Count those days

Graham-Jilly

Thanks John it is torture

I have the cash ready to go

GUTMACH

From the look of the cylinders, drivers, and the cab, I would have to say that looks alot like a Porter locomotive. Very nice purchase. Also a nice way to get into Grand Scale railroading (I believe it is called).

There is a guy in our local 'model railroad' group who is scratchbuilding for the last 5 years, what I think is a 3" scale, 7 1/2" gauge Mason Forney (2-6-6t). He belongs to the Adobe Mountain group up in Phoenix, and will be running it on their trackage.

Sorry about the wait that you will have to endure, but, it will pay off nicely.

Wayde

bessytractor

correct, it is a Porter, most likely to the Marie Estelle design (very popular in the UK!)

Graham-Jilly

the gentleman who built it is the seller and he is from Scunthorpe and he is returning back there in Nov. selling everything up and heading home

Graham-Jilly

2 more sleeps wooo hoooo

Cam

Woooo

Les

GUTMACH

Ha! Got that right!

Graham-Jilly are going to be feeling like

Wayde

Graham-Jilly

I picked the loco up yesterday so here are the long awaited pictures

Guards Van

Stilldrillin

Oh..... My.......!!

That really looks LOVELY! Thumbs up!

WOW!!!

Lost for the right words, again.......

Blummin well done you two!

made-in-england

Looks damn nice!

When you come to england next bring it with you and you can have a run down murky bottom at my model club

Sandman

What a cracking piece of kit mate.

I'm

with envy.

MooseMan

Man oh man that is LOVELY!

Good on ya guys! Thumbs up!

johnreid

Oh my that is so nice, I love it

Dragon

That's GORGEOUS!

I'm really liking the detail in the Caboose. (It's an American Style wagon, give it the American Style Name).

A really nice piece of Kit.

CuriousSteam

ozsteamdemon

Very nice indeed , congrats on a splendid purchase .

Whens the big steam up ?????????

Bugsy

Keith S

In Canada the "caboose" is called the "van" by most railroaders. I reckon you can call it whatever you like. Sometimes the little four-wheeled ones like yours are called "bobbers". They were common on logging railroads.

I'll bet you can't sleep right now, because you keep getting up to look at the engine. Must be exciting.

steamgranny

Wonderful!!!

And didn't realize it came with the superbly detailed caboose/van or whatever...

Really looking forward to seeing this in action

You lucky people!

Les

That is gorgeous, I am looking forward to seeing it in steam.

Graham-Jilly

took it down to the club last sunday boy it took an hour to get to full steam. they tested the saftey valves and gave the thumbs up. I couldnt run it on the track as I havent been trained yet

Stilldrillin

Keith S

"Trained"...pfff. Did you tell them you've been practicing with Mamod locomotives at home?

johnreid

I assume the training has to be done for insurance purposes. I am sure it will go quixkly and wasily. I am still so envious.

Graham-Jilly

David Im afraid next weekends out as we have to visit Jills dad

John yes its for insurance purposes. last weekend they had over 200 guests turn up for the running day

parking space was a little short

Stilldrillin

bessytractor

xlchainsaw

its a very nice engine!

my uncle built a engine of that size from a kit.

after he finished it he decided that he was too old to crouch down to work the controls so he sold it and bought a bigger one!

dampfmaschinenjoe 1967

W O W !

cheers Joe

Graham-Jilly

hopefully it will get a run this weekend

27ace27

Stilldrillin

made-in-england

Looks great david!

Hopefully ours will be as good once we finish it!
http://home.freeuk.net/admes.andover/

Nearly finished ground 7.25 and 5" then to start on raised 5" and 3.5 and the 16mm

Graham-Jilly

great looking club David

this is the club I belong to

http://www.tracksandtrains.com/qsmee/index.htm

Stilldrillin

Minor1PJG

Just catching up with this Graham - just fantastic.

You'll soon learn how to drive it....its just left leg in, left leg out, in, out, in out, shake it all about....

steam4ian

G'day Graham

Congratulations on your purchase. Have you driven it yet?

I have recently done the same thing by purchasing a 5" gauge British outline 0-4-0 saddle tank. I have planned to build one for a while but the loco come at a price that was less than the materials for a new job. It is well built and runs well.

Yep! I know I must post some pictures.

I'll start a new thread.

Regards
Ian

Graham-Jilly

Ian I havent driven it yet but have steamed it up at the club so the inspectors could give it the once over. now to get my club license to drive

flywheel61

Looks brilliant G & J, no more Mamods for awhile,

. Hope you get your licence in time for Granchester,

. I want a ride,

.

Cheers

Chris