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yosa · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:16 am Post subject:

Yep, gonna look good.

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Mamodman123 · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject:

I've been playing with the loco's again

I thought for a change I would try two tracks and two loco's at the same time. There isn't a great deal of space on my patio, but I managed to get them on. The only dissadvantage being the outer track has so many hills/gradients it kind of hindered the performance on the side nearest the house. It was fine everywhere else. I thought I would put Rosa out there because she has more power

A few pictures:

Again, Dougie was running on solid fuel, got an OK run, but it finished a minute or two before Rosa, having pulled less and traveled a shorter distance

. Still goes well on solid fuel though

, oh, and the track was level

Video's:

The one just above was the first video I took actually, regulator wasn't open enough on Rosa, but I couldn't open too much as it speeds up quite a bit in one place where it comes down the gradient

I'll have another bash at that in better light, and a little less wind, always seems to pick up when I decide to fire my loco

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Interesting stuff.

Graham-Jilly · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject:

Wonderful videos. How would they have moved if Dougie had been on the outer track? (Looking forward to getting ours and we need names ---lol) Cheers Jilly-Graham
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Steve_S · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject:

Good stuff MM! It somehow looks more 'real' when there are two together.

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Have you tried putting in a slip MM, so one loco can move from inner to outer circuit?

Mamodman123 · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

Chris · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject:

Dougie did good, especially seeing has he seemed to drop some fuel at the beginning (real advantage of meths, it doesn't fall off like the solid stuff).

I think I would have set them off in opposite directions for some passing shots.

Don't suppose you have some cheap track for sale?
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Mamodman123 · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

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Mamodman123 · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject:

Chris · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject:

Mamodman123 · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject:

Chris · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject:

They were very cheap. Can't remember how much. He had a box of mamod track, but all very tatty/broken. I was tempted, so it must have been cheap!
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