Spiffy, indeed! I wish I had that in my garage and that's a fact! A few years ago I was on a narrow-gauge railway tour of Germany with a British-run tour. We visited an elaborate feldbahn (600 MM) railway. It was a two km oval on a big piece of property and there were a lot of locomotives and freight and passenger cars. An elaborate loco shed with everything you would need. It was kind of a club and there was a bar and restaurant on the grounds. Antique car clubs woud meet there and ride the trains. I sure wish I coud remember the name of it- I will try to find out and will post the info.
Here's one that's a bit spiffier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_DUZnjsfuY
Flintlock76 That thing's too cool for words!
That thing's too cool for words!
You've got that right!
He might want to level up the track in some spots if he wants to tear around like that! One spot looked pretty dicey.
That's exactly what he does. You can see the fuel banked up (looks like briquettes or wood pieces to me at 'phone' scale) and you see and hear the water gurgling in. I believe quite a few live steam models even at 15" gauge are operated the same way
I want one!
I don't see any provisions for carrying water and fuel. Maybe he just fills the boiler and stokes the firebox, then uses what he has.
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Sounds like he woke up the dog around the one-minute mark, and Pup wasn't too happy at being disturbed!
Fun toy!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
OK, this isn't a monorail, but it sure looks like fun! Who needs models when you can have this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHr1zfhbL38
When I was in my early teens, even on a weekday with school over at 3pm, and Dad and Mom not back from the medical office at West 29th street until 8pm, if either Mark Steele or Leonard Rodwin or both were also free that evening, and our having already caught up on homework, of course go to Coney Island via the free IND-BMT transfer at Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street, and enjoy Steeplechase and Dodgem Cars and the Parachute Jump. Hour-and-a-half subway ride each way with two hours at C. I. And many times we would be treated to The Little Zephyr between Fulton and Franklin and Prospect Park. And a hot dog and french fries at Nathans to dampen hunger pangs until 8pm. Not sure about Leonard and Mark, but of course I enjoyed the subway rides as much as the C. I. atractions.
Similar to the Amberly monorail is this one in Wales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp4vj1rl6c4
CSSHEGEWISCH 54light15 I've read how on the L & B monorail that if a farmer loaded a cow onto one of the cars, he would bring two sheep to balance on the other side. Unload the cow and put one sheep on either side to keep the balance on the return trip. Sounds similar to loading a carferry.
54light15 I've read how on the L & B monorail that if a farmer loaded a cow onto one of the cars, he would bring two sheep to balance on the other side. Unload the cow and put one sheep on either side to keep the balance on the return trip.
I've read how on the L & B monorail that if a farmer loaded a cow onto one of the cars, he would bring two sheep to balance on the other side. Unload the cow and put one sheep on either side to keep the balance on the return trip.
Overmod- Morgans were powered by Matchless V-twin motorcycle engines, or J.A.P. (Joseph A. Prestwich) V-twins or Anzani V-twins. The last orignal ones built in the early 50s had a small Ford 4-cylinder engine. The one you see here is a Matchless- It's a jewel, isn't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-6C6TfK1DI
Recall the motorcycle in the opening of "Lawrence of Arabia?" That was J.A.P. powered. I know, too much information, but I love Morgans!
CSSHEGEWISCHconcrete pads in high-volume bus stops.
Here in North Texas where a good portion of the streets are concrete. After a rain, concrete can be as slippery as black ice when it has a heavy rubber and oil residue on it near stop lights. Not sure how that is going to work with a bus stop.
Has anyone ever figured out exactly how washboard is formed on roads?
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blue streak 1 Bus and truck tearing up asphalt as described is ongoing. The only real cure is to make it all concrete very thick and at least 7000# or greater making it much stronger than normal. Ga DOT repaved a road here recently . At a traffic light at bottom of small hill the pavement has already become wash board and getting worse.
Bus and truck tearing up asphalt as described is ongoing. The only real cure is to make it all concrete very thick and at least 7000# or greater making it much stronger than normal. Ga DOT repaved a road here recently . At a traffic light at bottom of small hill the pavement has already become wash board and getting worse.
It certainly does. Operationally it's much like the Listowel and Ballybunion principle (see the lateral stabilizing wheels) without the need for 'pannier' balance, and running on what is a nonsymmetrical-vertical=section I beam instead of a raised set of rails attached to frames.
Note the somewhat ad hoc leveling arrangements for the track, reminiscent of some forms of scaffolding. That is probably a legacy of the system's design as a construction-site tramway (for relatively even traversal of what may be extremely rutted and unstabilized ground via tracks easily taken up and repositioned).
Note that this kind of track is also tailor-made for an entirely-above-the-rail Brennan system, and indeed in the first part of the video I thought there was going to be some counterrotating gyroscope setup in that black 'box' on the vehicle chassis...
Hey, isn't the motor in that Bugs-Bunny-like shooting-gallery rig the same thing that would power a three-wheel Morgan?
I guess this qualifies as a monorail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Jnn2NaBMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSp9xvE_H_Y&t=239s
I've been to the Amberly museum several times. It's a former chalk mine and has a 24 inch gauge railway throughout the grounds. Open-cab steam locomotives and such. There's a lot of stuff to see like trench locomotives from the first world war. It's not far from London out of Waterloo station and is a "grand day out" as Wallace and Gromit would say.
It doesn't pay to mix road transport and rail transport. Streetcars run on tracks, buses run on roads. I see it here on roads served only by buses, the asphalt builds up into a big curved lump as they turn in and out at the bus stops and the term here is "bus knuckle." The road surface can get quite distorted from buses turning in at the exact same spots many times in the course of a day. But I guess that would happen anywhere.
There was a bus stop on Eglinton Avenue as I recall where the asphalt was pushed over into the curb and rose higher than the curb eventually. That made the newspapers and the TTC was pressured to sort it out, which they did.
54light15Somewhere in France was a fairly new streetcar system that had one guide rail, pantographs and the vehicles ran on rubber tires on the streets.
I think you are talking about the Bombardier GLT (guided light transit) system in Caen, which is supposedly being rebuilt as dual-rail. It was apparently called the Twisto system. The guide rail doubled as the return for electric overhead, but wasn't used as a load-bearing (or friction-reducing) element. One of the problems is that the engineers didn't figure out the need for slow jitter in the steering, so the vehicles ran exactly in the same track, over and over, until the pavement began to deteriorate in the 'ruts'. That took the bloom off the rose; apparently either the Caen management or Bombardier couldn't figure out the simple solutions to this, and now it's being rebuilt to more conventional rail-bearing configuration.
There is another system operating in Nancy that is interesting for a different reason. Their buses are both electric and diesel. Apparently they do not use the single rail as a return, as in Caen, but operate about 60% of the route steered by the rail. Away from it (or the double overhead) they run on diesel and are steered with a conventional wheel. Here is an early story with some of the 'complications' and details of the system. (TVR is the French acronym for the GLT system).
Translohr is the other system that does this sort of thing. They apparently can't figure out slow-speed jitter or periodic offset adjustment either.
NKP guy Penny Trains It's just not Christmas without Lionel and a 50's layout isn't complete without a HoJo's by the Turnpike! Thank you Penny Trains! I genuflect before your beautiful layout. And I think I can smell the fried clams and hot dogs from here!
Penny Trains It's just not Christmas without Lionel and a 50's layout isn't complete without a HoJo's by the Turnpike!
Thank you Penny Trains! I genuflect before your beautiful layout.
And I think I can smell the fried clams and hot dogs from here!
Thanks!
I'll give you the silent teaser for the really big layout!
Somewhere in France was a fairly new streetcar system that had one guide rail, pantographs and the vehicles ran on rubber tires on the streets. I've heard that there were so many problems with it, they gave up and made it run on two rails. Can't recall the name of the town.
Penny TrainsIt's just not Christmas without Lionel and a 50's layout isn't complete without a HoJo's by the Turnpike!
Penny TrainsWow! One rail and a balancing wheel! That's a new one by me!
It actually makes much better sense when the British do it. This is Thorold's idea from just after the Civil War when British road going powered vehicles were anathema.
The idea is to have one rail, and it can be fairly heavy, with a double-flanged wheel running on it to center, as the curb of a road. No curving resistance to speak of, and you could use a pipe rail or even logs if you wanted.
The offside wheel has only about 5% of the weight, just enough to preclude tipping over due to 'centrifugal force' or unbalanced load, and of course it runs on the road pavement. With that kind of loading even dirt or gravel would work, and pneumatic or rubber tires were known and might provide enough relatively damped suspension compliance to give quiet road running. (I'd use a long spring and rubber block isolators).
The Patiala system is taken from W.J. Ewing's adaptation, which is more like a narrow-gauge railway with only one side 'railed'. Only the center rail needs anything like precise lining and surface, which in the telephoto video it kind of isn't getting. Ewing puts the rail centered and uses a very narrow 'towpath' to the side as pictured for a dedicated ROW.
There is no reason why this would not work for electric streetcars, with one rail in the street perhaps close to the curb as the electrical return. Penny could try this out when she builds the Boynton Bicycle train for around the top of her tree...
Becky, that's a great kitbash of the Plasticville school and motel!
My complements!
And it goes without saying your Christmas layout's a stunner!
NKP guySince Howard Johnson's name was mentioned:
It's just not Christmas without Lionel and a 50's layout isn't complete without a HoJo's by the Turnpike!
54light15 Here's another change of pace; I've heard of this one, I didn't think it still ran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4nForKnnNk
Here's another change of pace; I've heard of this one, I didn't think it still ran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4nForKnnNk
Wow! One rail and a balancing wheel! That's a new one by me!
Paul of Covington If anyone around here says soda pop, soda or pop we usually assume they're not locals. Usually it's soft drink, but sometimes Coke is used to mean any kind of soft drink. "What kinda coke ya want?" "Gimme an orange."
If anyone around here says soda pop, soda or pop we usually assume they're not locals. Usually it's soft drink, but sometimes Coke is used to mean any kind of soft drink.
"What kinda coke ya want?"
"Gimme an orange."
Now that's what I've heard, get to certain places down South and the word "Coke" is a generic term for any soft drink.
Make sense. "Coca-Cola" has been called "Southern Holy Water."
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