| Archive for thecentralstation.myfreeforum.org Railway modelling for all Scales and Gauges |
| Even older tom |
Does size matter?Who says everything is bigger in the Sates? Even without my glasses on or the aid of a tape measure, the British Pacific is much bigger than the US one!
You can see it running here (thankfully a re-railer was included - it's near impossible to do it manually!) 
Next step, design and build a tiny railroad... |
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| poliss |
Can you get a Seuthe unit in there ya think? | ||
| Even older tom |
Err, no, I don't think so.
Even with my passion for smoke, I think I'll give it a miss! |
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| poliss |
How big is the oval btw? | ||
| Even older tom |
512 x 402 mm Pol.
I'm planning on making a simple, tiny layout just using the oval. So I'm on the lookout for 'interesting' features I can add (including a small trestle bridge). 
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| poliss |
There's 'no point' to a layout like that Tom.
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| Joe |
The Top picture makes the Duchess look like 0 gauge or maybe even gauge 1, good look with it all, how long is the locomotive by the way Tom? I Like the idea for the layout, maybe you can use that free card kit that Pol gave a link to in a nother thread. 
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| Even older tom |
Too true Joe, she does look rather big, doesn't she? The Z loco is all of 11cm long (including tender)  and runs incedibly well - even at scale 20mph speeds.
I'll probably start a new thread showing how NOT to do a Z scale layout.
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| Even older tom |
Quick update... the light on the front of the loco actually works !
The only problem is that it only glows bright enough to see it when the loco is doing a scale 100mph. 
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| TheThing |
That's cool!
Is Z guage freely available in this country? If so, I might trade all the OO stuff in and go really teeny tiny! |
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| poliss |
Freely available, but lots more expensive if you buy new. Tom's set on the Ontracks website is £172.51 for instance. http://tinyurl.com/cleoet
(Wonders if Tom will convert the loco to DCC so the lights are brighter.)
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| Joe |
When you see how expensive smaller gauges are E.g: N, Z it makes 00 look really cheap for what you get, 00 Z and N seem to pretty close when it comes to price, the only difference is 0 which is about 3-4 times as expensive as 00, which is weird. | ||
| bando1_de |
Hi Tom,
There's a workaround for your "lighting problem": replace the factory built-in light bulb with an SMD warm-white LED + resistor. I did this in one of my N-scale E-8's made by LifeLike. Headlight is now fully visible at speeds as low as 10 scale mph in analog mode. However, I'm not very good at soldering SMDs and so I messed up 3 of them before I got it right 
Erhard |
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| Even older tom |
Thanks Erhard but if YOU had problems then I'll probably have a catastrophe!
I'll give it a miss, I think. 
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| bando1_de |
Well, let's put it this way:
As soon as I started to use the magnifying lamp, it worked pretty well. Doesn't pay if you think you still have a good eyesight in your mid-fifties and don't use your glasses
Now all my engines are equipped with these warm-white LEDs. Simply looks beautiful and a lot better than the blue-white LEDs which give a cold light color. I don't remember any engine that was equipped with neon-lamps as headlights....
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| poliss |
Erm, not quite neon, but they are very bright.
http://einhornpress.com/headlights.aspx |
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| bando1_de |
Boah! Takes ages to load but very interesting... | ||
| poliss |
That nice Mister Branson says he's increasing my broadband speed so everything will load faster.
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| TheThing |
Have seen the Z gauge in the 'flesh' today. It is quite remarkably small, but what is more remarkable is the slow speed it can attain.
Nice to see you again Tom. |
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