This is day two with my new live steam 16 mm to the foot scale Regner Lumber Jack. I have renamed the loco to “Dorothy” after my late step mother. She graciously included me in her legacy and so I used part of it to buy this engine. Dorothy was her middle name. Her first name Mercedes just didn’t seem to work with this engine.
I made the name plates out of coffee stir sticks in keeping with the sort of back woods feel of the engine. I love this loco. It is a quality machine made by the Regner family business in Germany. My previous video contains a detailed walk through of the loco: • Victoria BC: Live Stea...
In this video I also show a spare Accucraft knuckle coupler, which I have reshaped to fit onto Regner’s coupler. It is an improvement over the temporary Kadee I jury-rigged on for yesterday’s first steam up. This was an easy modification to the coupler and this coupler is now the one I will use whenever I am operating the larger trains.
I was also very pleasantly surprised to find that the loco has a cross-tube boiler. It really is a quality piece of work.
Given that this engine is gauge-adjustable, for my next video I will run it outdoors on my 32 mm gauge Garden Panter Railway V.2. pulling my Mamod railcars (The soil arrived just as I started typing this blurb!). 32 mm gauge represents 2 foot narrow gauge industrial lines. In this video I am running it indoors on 45 mm gauge G scale track. I usually run live overhead wire on this indoor layout using an LGB steeple cab electric loco.
In the video you will see some brick military vehicles. They are excellent Lego-compatible models made in Poland by Cobi.
All in all my Regner Dorothy is a fabulous geared engine.
Happy model railroading!
Terry