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Mamodman123 · WOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyz-zjHEwxs

Christ, look at what this mamod loco is pulling

tmuir

Wow thats impressive.

I could see its been converted to centre buffer, has uprated safety valve and it has either an inline lubricator in the cab like my roundhouse one or that could be a butane cylinder, couldnt tell from the vid.
Either way that runs great.

SillyBilly

Amazing, I want that exhaust beat, at the start of the video, isn't it climbing a gradient???

Chris

Blimey.

That is very very impressive.

Wonder if he has fitted some kind of chuff pipe, it sounds really good.

James

Bloody hell!!

Stilldrillin

How does it DO THAT?

David.

IndianaRog

I counted 22 cars that loco was hauling AND up a gradient if I'm correct. Wow is right.

We need to get that gent to join this forum and tell us what mods he did to accomplish that.

Mamodman123

Wallace

Great video

But how?

Graham-Jilly

wow we are impressed.

Jilly wants that railway system

have to sell off some of the family I think
absolutely loved it

Mamodman123

V8Nick

Viaduct is impressive too!

PTLRcecil

Thanks Im glad it turned a few heads.

PTLRcecil

Im not trying to brag but she will pull more when the wheels aren't wobbling. It run so many miles even the bearings on the replacement Ip wheels are getting worn.

Chris

Welcome.

Please tell more about the loco!

PTLRcecil

Only glad too.
It was in fact my father who rebuilt the loco out of one of the original Mss locos.
He silver solderd the boiler fitted Ip Enginneering Cylinders wheels and water feed valve. She has a homemade safety valve displacement lubicator and a three wick meths burner with large capacity tank.
We dont know why shes as powerful as she is seeing that other maods of ours have had similar treatment over the past 25 years since mamod released there steam locos I guess we just got lucky.
If theres ant thing else Ill be glad to answer it.
P.S Keep an eye on youtube for another Vid of this engine and other intresting beasties ( including the tram built out of a mamod traction engine)

steamyjim

hello

your locos amazing!!!!!

what mods have you got on it?

looks bloody good in black (black is my yet to be built railways colours)

whats the railway called?

steamyjim

cant wait to see the tram

PTLRcecil

Stands for the Pine Tree Light Railway. On the wagon behind the engine it has SHLR (Sleighton Heathers Light Railway). The original line it and the mamod came from.

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Griffin

Welcome to the Forum Cecil, that is one super Loco you have, and an impressive layout.

PTLRcecil

Thanks and for the record the tram vid has just been posted on youtube for those intersted.

James

Welcome to the forum mate!!

Your loco is ace!

steamyjim

whats the vid called?

Graham-Jilly

Wow watched your vids what a wonderful setup
green with envy
how did you build the aquaducts
by the way

steamyjim

found the vid

very good

any chance of some stills close ups ect?

Mamodman123

Fantastic loco you have there!

Just goes to show the potential these have

Wallace

Hi PTLRcecil and welcome to the forums.

Great loco.

Hope you have fun here

MooseMan

Hi, welcome to the forum! I think your setup's gorgeous - love that viaduct, reminds me of the Settle to Carlisle trip....coincidence?

PTLRcecil

The viaduct is based on chelfam viaduct on the lynton and barnstaple exept in dull size it would be bigger as it has 11 arches instead of chelfams 8.

steamyjim

cant wait to build my garden railway

seeing vids like that makes you want to get out there and do it

can you get some pics of the tram please

PTLRcecil

The best way to do it is wait till you've got a nice day then just start and as soon as possible get some steam on running on it and you soon get the motivation. I wouldnt worry about scenic details untill you have a main running line down with a passing loop etc.
It worked for me and my father but ive seen other people take it different ways what ever suits you best.

steamyjim

unfortunaltey i cant start till we have moved the workshop

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but im just thinking i could start one end of th line (the small terminus station) and carry on up till where it would enter the workshop.

atleast it would be something running

tmuir

Welcome to the forum PTLTcecil. Loved your vid too, need to get some more track and work on mine.

steamyjim

i want my railway to be a grotty industrial tramway with heavy industrial buildings containing mamod engines

it appeals to me more than like a countryside feel

PTLRcecil

Ive seen that been done before and it looks different but right at the same time. I cant remember what the railway was called but it was a brick works laid on several different tiers and it looked fantastic.

steamyjim

was it Peter Jones Compton Down Railway...

that is one of the best garden railways ive seen

heavy industry, smoke, steam ect

i might be going there soon

SillyBilly

Welcome to the forum Mr. PTLR!
Where abouts in Cumbria are you? As I visit the Barrow area once or twice a year, and if possible would love to visit your railway.

MTA

Welcome to the forum Cecil. I hope your stay with us is a long and pleasant one. Just loved the viaduct, I went past the Chelfam viaduct when it was under restoration and was very impressive. Despite the fact it was surrounded by scaffolding

PTLRcecil

Aye there was a time when chelfam had as much scafalding as the forth rail bridge as to a previous question its ulverston im based in.

SillyBilly

Any chance of paying you a visit in the future? As that viaduct is to die for, also you've a nice Locobox Garret, don't think I've see one without ocsilating cylinders before.

MTA

steamyjim

the basic locobox garrat has oscilating cylinders wich is called the Darj. whearas the more expensive one has fixed cylinders (the valve gear looks like roundhouse actually) is called the African

PTLRcecil

To sillybilly yes there is most possibly a chance you can come and see the PTLR when your in cumbria again provided were in. Several weekends we may be at the Bo'ness and kinniel railway firing the shire there.

oldstuff

Welcome Cecil!

Wow, what a great vid! That's really some loco.
I couldn't believe how many cars it was pulling.

MTA

PTLRcecil

Yep she is I say her cos chances are Ive got her for a week in the summer since 80105's of visiting other line 419's going to be little used in preparation for her centinery and No 1 just rarly gets used.

steamyjim

can you put some pics of your tram up please

Chris

MTA

PTLRcecil

How do I post pictures on the forum I cant quite figure it out.

Chris

Most people here use a photobucket account.

www.photobucket.com upload the photos and then use the image link from the photobucket website.

Otherwise if you have them uploaded onto another website use the img buttons at the top of the box where you type your message.

[img] place the file is [/img]

James

See this website matE:

http://www.postpics.piczo.com/?cr=5&rfm=y

PTLRcecil

Will do cheers for that

SillyBilly

There is always talk of Titan 2, and I think MM has found it!

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SillyBilly

I've seen your tram in Garden Rail before. Am I right in thinking that you have steam boats aswell. Would certainly like to see a shot of the interior.

PTLRcecil

PTLRcecil

Yey it worked sorry about the size.

Titan

Very impressive! It just goes to show what can be done with a well tuned Mamod! I bet you had to be careful the rails were clean and free of oil for that run!

Welcome to the forum!

I do like the viaduct too!

Not sure about the worlds most powerful Mamod bit though!

Graham-Jilly

very impressed with your garden railway

has given me food for thought

Chris

steamyjim

Now that i like

Can we have a shot of the ineterior eg the gearing and how you did it??? Please

Is the engine still on top?

I saw that in Tag Gortons Garden Railways In Focus. It was on the Foxfeilds Railway if my memory serves me right. There also was a realy detailed black Mamod SL1 in the background wich i think was yours aswell.

Mamodman123

Titan is pretty powerful guys! I've heard the stories!

Wonder what it could pull with it's full potential

Great picture too! looks wonderfully made!

PTLRcecil

I saw that in Tag Gortons Garden Railways In Focus. It was on the Foxfeilds Railway if my memory serves me right. There also was a realy detailed black Mamod SL1 in the background wich i think was yours aswell

Aye it was and the black mamod was the mel which also has a fair amount of oomph behind it for an original mamod. As for titan I put in the title on youtube
1 to catch peoples attention
2 Just as a bit of a joke
3 Its the most powerful mamod in the NWAG area of the 16mm asociation
4 Im not being sarcastic but can you put on a vid of yours on youtube. Just curious

PTLRcecil

Either taht or we couble them together and drag an Accucraft NG16 backwards.

Titan

Well I won't be drawn on whose is the most powerful, but that performance does seem pretty similar to what I have seen Titan pull (or if you want to be pedantic it was in fact push). I think that that is about the limit of what it could do running at 20 psi, and TBH I have never needed anything better, since I have not got that much rolling stock!!

However, I do have a 40psi safety valve lurking in my tool box, and if I wanted to go further the boiler should be good for a working pressure of 60 psi (it is an aftermarket silver soldered boiler made from brass at least twice as thick as a standard Mamod, and tested when new to 120psi).

But I have no real desire to - apart from anything else I would have to start getting inventive about where I could fit extra ballast weight to stop wheelspin, and things might start to wear out a bit too rapidly!!!

Mind you it does start you wondering what the ultimate limit is !!!

Just out of curiosity, what pressure is that Mamod running at?

Titan

Don't worry, this is all taken quite lightheartedly!!

And to be fair pulling a train like that your loco must surely be a good contender!! In fact I am rather impressed that there was no wheelspin - do you have a lot of added weight?

As it happens there is already a video of Titan on youtube from when I exhibited at the Lincolnshire Museum steam and oil day, although I did not put it there, and it is not hauling the longest of trains since I was not trying to at the time! And it had a steam leak that needed fixing (I know excuses excuses etc!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhNCtpaRWI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4MGFNJfLU

James

Ahh there it is

I'd love Titan, it is probably the best Mamod loco ever

Mamodman123

This is the best Ive done with Rosa

Although I had no more rolling stock

the burner is the downfall for me, It needs a bigger tank! not sure what my valve is set at either

James

these are some pics of my loco (I always wanted to say that

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Mamodman123

James, that so isn't yours

James

True, but it felt damn good to say it was

Mamodman123

James

I won't be when my tender gets here and the new meths burner is in. You watch lad

Mamodman123

James

*points to eyes with 2 fingers and then points at MM's eyes*

Chris

James

LMFAO!!

PTLRcecil

Im not entirely sure what mine blows off at but as long as she doesnt blow up in my face im quite happy. Just a little trick ive learnt to hold pressure in is to buy mamod traction engine water glasses instead of train ones. with a little bit of adjustment they will fit.

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PTLRcecil

Cant remember who wanted to see internal pics of the tram but these are the best I could do since my digi cameras packed up and i had to resort to cheap tacky emergancy camera for 5 pund of ebay.
I will endevour to put on some pics of other wee timerous beasties of the PTLR. Ill probably leave out the Accucraft ones since everyones seen them.

PTLRcecil

Top pic PTLR's very own afrikarn 'Black Coombe' next to Geoff Holmes's Accucraft Lyn and John sharpes roundhouse Jack on peter hutton's Silverdale Light Railway.
Middle Our own Archangel Darj on Morris Snell's gague 1 line
Bottom My own Jenny built out of a steamlines Rheidol with mike chaney cylinders
Somebody wanted pics of engine of the PTLR here they are.

Graham-Jilly

great work thee cecil looks like a lot of work has gone into it

Graham-Jilly

gobsmacked i need to win the loto

Wallace

Fantastic setup

SillyBilly

Magic stuff! Of course we wanna see accucraft stuff. I thing there great, simple, chunky, controlable, cheap locos!

James

Hey mate *takes Cecil over to one side*

*whispering* You err, you wouldn't sell me your entire setup and locos for.... a rubber band and this piece of fuzz out of my pocket, would ya?

steamyjim

nice stuff there

Is that a De-Winton i spy next to the tram?

Where abouts is the engine in the tram?

PTLRcecil

Well those lines shown belong to members of our local area group and only the Jenny is my loco. And for the record I didnt build her one of our freinds sold up his railway a while ago. I bought his single fairlie (seen next to the tram in one of the pics) and my freind from college (also into 16mm) bought the Jenny however for finacal reasons he sold it to me on a buy back bases for some time in the future.

PTLRcecil

SillyBilly

How mutch is the De Winton?

PTLRcecil

Not sure Its my fathers so Ill have to ask him when he gets back from work. All it is is a set of frames wheels connecting rods with a boiler shell and a meths tank Ill get a pic of it.

PTLRcecil

There you go could prob finish with an osmoter or other device of ocilating nature.

SillyBilly

Ther's a lot of work in it and that means I'd have to call on a lot of favours! But also, the standard of work looks excellent. Is the boiler just a tube? I'm not promissing to be over enthusiastic about purchsing it so don't go out of your way with my questions.

tmuir

I'm guess that De Winton is 32mm, I only run 45mm