Huwsie Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 I've run my Live Steam Flying Scotsman recently - such a nice model. Choose a fairly cold morning, so that the steam was more visible. /media/tinymce_upload/b3e5ba6dc711fcd58cb8ce65281e545e.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Hiwhat a nice layout and the steam adds the icing on the cake no other 00 system can match the steam driven engines that Hornby markete. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Hihow many engines do you have? I think the FS is the best engineered and the best looking model Hornby made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huwsie Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Hihow many engines do you have? I think the FS is the best engineered and the best looking model Hornby made.I've got the FS and the original Mallard. The Mallard has been a bit of a low-flying duck (pardon the pun) since I had it, needing constant attention, but as you say that FS runs like a dream. Wish I had two controllers to be honest to run both tracks. At the other end of the layout is a tunnel which I've built as enclosed, so the train actually runs through a tube rather than into an open space. This creates the effect of lingering steam when the train exits. So realistic on cold days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 What a great idea I have a tunnel so might try that some day but as you say on a cold day with the central heating off they look great running with the steam puffing from the chimney. Such a shame Hornby never made a few more of these engineering maval They got the basic design so right with the FS and that chassis would have fitted many bodies of the 4-6-2 loco's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huwsie Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 What a great idea I have a tunnel so might try that some day but as you say on a cold day with the central heating off they look great running with the steam puffing from the chimney. Such a shame Hornby never made a few more of these engineering maval They got the basic design so right with the FS and that chassis would have fitted many bodies of the 4-6-2 loco's./media/tinymce_upload/5b8d1ced351568998fa61620c5ac3de6.JPG And here's that same train thundering across the unfinished viaduct and into that said tunnel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Hi Huwsiegreat action shoot and looks like you are building a very nice lay out it all goes to set the look of times gone by it's not the viaduct from Jerich? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Should be Jericho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Great photo Huwsie - and yes, what a layout you must have. R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huwsie Posted February 27, 2016 Author Share Posted February 27, 2016 Thanks Roger and Gowest.I started my own business for which I had to rent a warehouse. Into the warehouse I had to build office spaces, and while building office space I had an idea... and I included this 'train room'. Trouble is, with this train room right next to my office, you can imagine how much work gets done on some days! In fact, I sometimes have to lock myself out of the train room until my work day is over... It makes some great conversations though when people visit my company premises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I know what you mean a few days back I had to call the doctor out one night for my poor wife when he saw the train layout I think he would have spent more time on trains and less on wife? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Great idea Huwsie.I can imagine a mezzanine deck over the office in a warehouse for the layout and the secretary saying to a customer on the phone - 'the boss is up in the cloud at present running his railway business, can I get him to call you back'. People have the same problem working from home - I'll just pop into the garden and do a bit of dead-heading while that spreadsheet prints. 'Oops where has the day gone'. Call the customer and say - 'Sorry I did get back to you, but our computers are down - not our fault - it was the internet connection, blah, blah'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huwsie Posted February 28, 2016 Author Share Posted February 28, 2016 I know what you mean a few days back I had to call the doctor out one night for my poor wife when he saw the train layout I think he would have spent more time on trains and less on wife?When I moved to Cyprus from Dubai, I shipped all my belongings in a sea container. In Dubai I had carefully built the layout in sections that could be individually slid into one large shipping crate, because ultimately a move was always on the cards. Anyway - Container arrives outside my house here in Cyprus, Customs guy comes, verifies the seal and removes it, then unloading takes placin in his presence. It was all going sort of as usual until this large white crate comes out of the container.... this gets his his attention of course... you can see his mind racing, and he asks what's in there.. I said it's difficult to explain, (due to the language barrier) you'll just need to open it and see. He opens this crate and stands there aghast... such was his intrigue with the layout that we could have unloaded literally anything out of that container from that point onwards - which reminds me really because I promised to call him once the layout was operational - he wanted to bring his grandson! - it was all kind oif funny at the time, how his attitude went from intrigue when he saw the crate to absolute delight once he saw inside it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go_West Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Do we take it you are not in the UK then great story might start some thinking about turfing white power into railway coaches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huwsie Posted February 28, 2016 Author Share Posted February 28, 2016 I live permanently in Cyprus. No longer able to endure the weather on offer in the UK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clickernick Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Nice one Huw, hope that LiveDrive unit is working nicely!! Reguards your Mallard, there is a lube available that is like a tonic for these beasties!!! My once ill mallard now runs so sweet.Have a look over at the OOLSc soon! Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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