Dublo 3 Rail Layout

What a cracking car, so comfortable, versatile and superb torsion bar suspension.
Cheers Malc

 

My first brand new car was a pale blue Renault 4. Bought it in 1973 cost £749. I loved it but unfortunately we outgrew it.
Got one one my layout.

 

Hi Andy,
Apart from some Hornby dublo super detail coaches and wagons (plastic or nylon wheels?), all the coaching stock is tinplate with metal wheels. I imagine the crud they had on them came from their previous lives.
It was a problem I regularly had to deal with on my 2-rail layout, but I was a bit surprised to find it on 3-rail metal wheel sets. The most surprising aspect being that it was invisible until I started scraping. Weird. Certainly seems to have cured most of my derailments though.

 

I picked Rita up on a farm in the Ardèche in 2016, where she had literally been sitting in a barn since her owner went into an old people’s home. She’d clearly never left her village ! I paid €500 to the farmer and then drove her 30km home, did brakes, tyres and fluids and then my daughter took her across Europe to Krakow in an R4 convoy to see the Pope for the international youth festival in 2016! She’s now our holiday runabout and spends the rest of her time with her battery disconnected dozing in her garage in Noirmoutier-en-l’Île in the west of France.

 

Hiya
Saw a great video on YouTube about 2-6-4T models yesterday by crewlocoman

towards the end he shows how he made the injector pipe work for a Wrenn BR 4MT. So I thought I’d have a go.
First job, find a decent side on photo.

Next I scaled it on screen to exactly the same size as my Dublo 80054.
That way I was able to trace the exact
pattern.

All that was left to do was bend copper wire to the correct shape and solder up where necessary. The « injector » was fabricated from the stripped insulation.
A hole was drilled under the footplate at the cab end for one end of the piping. The front end was soldered to the valve gear support under the boiler.

So there we are. Now Fred and Bert have all they need for a brew up while stopped at signals waiting for that late running express...

In the photos the wire gauge looks a bit too thick, it looks better on the track, but if it grates I might raplce it with finer copper wire.

 

Nice shot. Still awaiting some methfix HMRS transfers and Montrose smoke deflectors I found on eBay to get my Abercorn project finished.

 

What’s the plan? Something Highland ?

 

Thé Albert Hall motion « left a bit to be desired » even when it was Albert Hall!
I have one that I converted … into a GWR Hall class . far as I remember the operation also involved shortening the footplate. I didn’t do anything about the motion though, just blackened it. Other than that it did get a full repeint into GREAT WESTERN lined green and got etched name and number plates, though I can’t for the life of me remember which one it is.

 

CJ Freezer, a railway modelling legend if ever there was one

 

My smoke deflectors and methfix LMS transfers arrived yesterday.
Not much time for (model) trains this week, but I couldn’t resist fitting the smoke deflectors tonight. Numbers and lettering will have to wait a week or so, but here’s a very poor photo (my iPhone is on the blink - the rear camera has failed and using the front one is a real pain!) of 6234 with her newly fitted deflectors. I do find a Princess Coronation looks a bit weird without them.

 

This is the second of two videos he’s made.
Personally I’m a bit of a fan of big tank engines. There were some great ones here in France including the 141TB
2-8-2T locos which lasted on Parisian suburban services right into the early ´70’s