Model railways?

**McDuck** · 26th January 2009, 20:52

Originally Posted by Big Dave

I stowed away on a freight ship once that had a turbine engine in the funnel and 2 giant electric motors to turn the screws.

cool..........

**Maha** · 26th January 2009, 20:55

Originally Posted by Chooky

Have a collection of Union Pacific Locos in HO scale......
Probably about a hundred...

This one is the biggest steam loco ever made......
16 driving wheels.. weighed in at 550 tons..

How did ya get that inside your house Graeme?....

**Chooky** · 27th January 2009, 04:53

Originally Posted by Maha

How did ya get that inside your house Graeme?....

Ha..I shrunk it to 1/87th....

**lb99** · 13th July 2009, 21:25

got me some, it took a while but I came up with a set for $5

HO life like brand, a chessie system loco (gp38 I think), plus freight cars and a caboose, power pack, station, freight depo, and an oval of power loc track, all working ok too.
I'm away.

I scored another circle of the same track (type with built in roadbed), plus some more straight bits, now I have a line from the living room to the bedroom.

anyone wanna unload some ho bits?

**Sidewinder** · 13th July 2009, 21:30

my uncle had one there fooken cool

**Chooky** · 13th July 2009, 22:16

Originally Posted by lb99

got me some, it took a while but I came up with a set for $5

HO life like brand, a chessie system loco (gp38 I think), plus freight cars and a caboose, power pack, station, freight depo, and an oval of power loc track, all working ok too.
I'm away.

I scored another circle of the same track (type with built in roadbed), plus some more straight bits, now I have a line from the living room to the bedroom.

anyone wanna unload some ho bits?

Your onto it...now just knock some holes in the wall and run the train right through the whole house....
What HO bits you want...? I want to keep all the UP loco's but... I promised them to my grandsons.

**Big Dave** · 13th July 2009, 23:55

Originally Posted by Chooky

This is one toy train I want but nobody has made a model of it yet.
Union Pacific turbine...It had a huge jet engine in it driving an alternator and was rated at 8500hp.....
Only in America....

They go up to five engines on the Hunter Valley coal trains - will see if I can find the HP. This shows some with four.

The trains are up to 1.5km long too. (from memory)

**Bass** · 14th July 2009, 08:48

Originally Posted by Chooky

Have a collection of Union Pacific Locos in HO scale......
Probably about a hundred...

This one is the biggest steam loco ever made......
16 driving wheels.. weighed in at 550 tons..

How did the Garretts that NZR had on the Raurimu spiral compare with that?
I believe that they were 4884 configuration as well.

Am a fan of the live steam models personally but I guess that taking a decade to build a good one and ending up with something that weighs well over half a tonne sorta keeps them out of the lounge.

**sunhuntin** · 14th July 2009, 09:52

anyone see country calendar the other night? guy in eketehuna [i think] has a model railway in his garage or basement. it is open to the public too, which is neat.
went into a model shop in palmy yesterday to get replacement motors for my tomy engines and ended up dribbling all over the hornby stuff... makes me wish i was rich!! though, i do have a hornby thomas engine somewhere. are they meant to have keys? mines still got the plastic tray, and theres an empty spot shaped like a key. i got it from an op shop years ago.

**boman** · 14th July 2009, 18:33

Unless you like pommie railroads, keep away from them. Go Athern, Atlas or KAto. American railroads are way more interesting. 6 locos pulling a long train of wagons up the Tehachapi Loop, in Southern California, Fantastic. The train actually can cross over itself. Check out www.railpictures.net/ for some real photos.

**Indiana_Jones** · 14th July 2009, 18:49

1920/1930s British steam is where it's at!

-Indy

**NDORFN** · 14th July 2009, 20:35

I used to have a modular single track (all code 88) layout that ran around the perimeter of our lounge (I think it was 32 meters). Had a Broadway Limited BNSF SD40-2 with sound pulling 38 mixed wagons. You'd think it'd get boring, and I suppose it did a little, but then I discovered that adding a Johnny Cash compilation and a bowl of weed massively enhanced the experience. Later I switched to On30 and Tool... same weed though. Had to sell the whole lot get a bike coz trains weren't cool enough for my lady.