Working 2nd shift, many times I will run once I get home at midnight. So lights, both on the railway and the train are needed.

@@artfulldodger5597 perfect

Thanks, the chuff pipe really entertains the neighborhood its so loud! Working on functional lights for it right now.

45mm gauge(LGB track) but model can be regauged to 32mm if so desired. Most all Roundhouse Engineering models can be regauged to either gauge, the wheels have a pair of grub screws that set them to the axle. The model comes with a wheel gauge tool to set them to 45 or 32mm

Thanks. Thats all factory done as well. I only added some etched builders plates to the steam dome. Otherwise its bone stock.

@@artfulldodger5597 excellent

They are Kalamazoo as well, but custom decorated by myself

@@artfulldodger5597 they look festive but I need a bigger screen to be able to read the road name.

@@northernutahlivesteam3566 They are custom lettered "Autism Express" as I am on the autism spectrum myself. They are quite popular when run them at shows that our local live steam group sets up our portable layout.

@@artfulldodger5597 very nice. 👍

The wind kept blowing it back into the foul of the mainline, so it was partially derailed to keep it in place. It was quite breezy during the run.

@@artfulldodger5597 ok, as long as it wasn’t a supernatural event. 😀

This is the quality you pay for and get with every Roundhouse brand live steam locomotive. This was their top model in the early 1990's when this one was made. Its still in the lineup today with a few improvements over the original design model here.

@@artfulldodger5597 I have noticed Roundhouse engines can run at very slow speeds without stalling, compared to the engines in my roster.

They have very large bore cylinders and better throttle set ups. Most are RC control right from the factory as well, although you can get them with manual control. A good load to pull also helps with an engine that is skittish. @@northernutahlivesteam3566

460 grade steam cylinder oil, you can get that from The Train Department, which has a nice website for small scale live steam. The Corgi reissue needs a lot of "run in" time before they perform well. Some never perform as good as an original UK built Basset Lowke.

Thank you! This has solved my issue. Almost runs too fast now :D@@artfulldodger5597

Thank you. Now Would you recommend doing this gas conversion? And Has it caused any issues yet? And I have 2 corgis I am thinking of doing this too. I have had no luck with the older models and their flame throwers.

Yes, return is on the engineers side and supply is on the side facing the camera. Yes, that is my very early gas fired Sandy River along the sidelines. We were set up at the winter NMRA CID divisional show in Lebanon Indiana show.

Yes, I have a couple older Bassett Lowke engines, a reissued Mogul from 2000 and a vintage Super Enterprise from the 1950's. Wish I could find a really nice internally fired O gauge live steam locomotive to buy. Both of mine are simple pot boilers.

That's how it's done on the Shawe engine, not enough room for a firebox mounted pan. So the trailing truck does it with a stainless plate added to its bottom

Coal burning engines have been done in both G and even O scale live steamers. This one is done by Shawe Steam Services in the UK based around the Roundhouse Sandy River 24. I have changed a few details such as headlight and removal of the pilot and trailing truck side frames.

Those are old Kalamazoo Toy Train coaches from the 1980s. They came in several colors, most with fictional names on them. I have a Roundhouse/Shawe coal burning 24 that I am modifying while its in the back shop for worn out rods and axle bushings, it will have inboard bearing pilot and trailing trucks, Arc style oil headlight and eventually wear different colors, its the later sprung chassis version from 2006 with a silver smokebox and oxide roof. It will wear dark bronze green with graphite smoke box and oxide roof once repainted.

The size difference between 16mm scale and the 1:20.3 of those Accucraft cars is greater than one realizes. The old Kalmazoo stuff is loosely 1:24. The old REA/Aristocraft shorty wood coaches also look good, as do LGB coaches, and LGB offers factory painted Sandy River ones. If you want true scale and true length Sandy River coaches, cabooses ect. Check out Bowater models in the UK. They have laser cut wood kits in 16mm scale for the Sandy River and Bridgeton & Saco River.

​@@artfulldodger5597 Thanks I had the Delton coaches which were probably the same molds Kalamazo was using that Hartland bought. I thought of building the Ozark Minatures wooden coach kits. I think they come laser cut, I got a lot of projects though. I'll have to look up Bowater models.

@@stevenj9414 The Delton coaches are their own molds. Hartland ended up with both the Delton and Kalamazoo molds. This was how the Hartland 4-4-0 got to look much better than the original Kalamazoo one. Hartland used the cab, headlight and other details from the C16 molds they did get to upgrade the 4-4-0. Aristocraft ended up with the main C16 molds though.

@@artfulldodger5597 Oh okay I had a HLW 440 years ago and sold it sadly. My 1.5 inch ride on club has the Disney HLW 440 in our museum part of the Carolwood collection. Yeah Aristo got some of the Delton molds but, they shipped all that to China where HLW was still made in the US. Lewis Polk was still a good man I did meet him in person a few times. He was living in South Florida last few years and I belonged to a different ride on club at the time and he was a member there too. Yeah we talked about your coal fired Sandy River on facebook and we talk on MLS frequently lol. I was asking you a few days ago about what was messed up on your coal fired engine's valve gear and you took detailed photos of it.

everything outside stays out there year round, track, buildings and such. Only the trains come back inside. And I have run them in the rain, they are weatherproof as well.

just remove the RH supplied buffer/coupler set up and using the same screw, mount the LGB loop without the hook to the same screw hole that holds the stock coupler.

@@artfulldodger5597 Thank you very much. I found that out when it arrived, absolutely brilliant isn’t it?! Really impressed with the loco, my first experience of Roundhouse live steam. My other two are Accucraft. Also good but the Billy is streets ahead in my opinion.