Splendid, good work. I have one purchased new in the early 1970’s, pre the sophisticated controllers we nowadays. It had the standard Triang/Hornby gearing and slow speed running was just too fast. I replaced the gear set with 60:1 Romford gear set - better. I am now working on an N gauge version, and a 5” gauge live steam coal fired version ( quite a few years from completion ). There is also a 4-4-0 version, called Armstrong, I have seen one in 00 gauge and the drawings I have for the Dean Single also show the Armstrong. In my view simply the handsomest locomotive ever built.
Georgeous model, your workmanship is both inspirational and a credit to you. The model looks great running on American metals and fascinating to watch in this unusual environment. I have been hoping manufacturers will make an up to date version of this loco but now I can see that might not be neccessary. Thanks for such an enjoyable video.
Hi. Hoping you get to read this comment posted several years after your video! I'm interested to know what you did, in a bit more detail, to the frames to reduce the gap above the front pony truck? I note that the original locomotive had front wheel which were 6" smaller in diameter than the trailing wheels. The ones on the model seem far smaller and out of scale with the rear. I wonder if it would be feasible to replace the front wheels with ones of the correct size. Also, that cut-out in the frames at the front is annoying. I know it's there to stop the wheels fouling the frames and allow running on tight curves but would be keen to see what happens if it's temporarily filled and what minimum radius curves the loco would run on. Thanks in anticipation. PS. Your improvements look great!
Splendid, good work. I have one purchased new in the early 1970’s, pre the sophisticated controllers we nowadays. It had the standard Triang/Hornby gearing and slow speed running was just too fast. I replaced the gear set with 60:1 Romford gear set - better. I am now working on an N gauge version, and a 5” gauge live steam coal fired version ( quite a few years from completion ). There is also a 4-4-0 version, called Armstrong, I have seen one in 00 gauge and the drawings I have for the Dean Single also show the Armstrong. In my view simply the handsomest locomotive ever built.
Georgeous model, your workmanship is both inspirational and a credit to you. The model looks great running on American metals and fascinating to watch in this unusual environment. I have been hoping manufacturers will make an up to date version of this loco but now I can see that might not be neccessary. Thanks for such an enjoyable video.
Beautiful work on this loco!
I've recently been very tempted to detail one of these, as well as try to improve its running.
Hi. Hoping you get to read this comment posted several years after your video! I'm interested to know what you did, in a bit more detail, to the frames to reduce the gap above the front pony truck? I note that the original locomotive had front wheel which were 6" smaller in diameter than the trailing wheels. The ones on the model seem far smaller and out of scale with the rear. I wonder if it would be feasible to replace the front wheels with ones of the correct size. Also, that cut-out in the frames at the front is annoying. I know it's there to stop the wheels fouling the frames and allow running on tight curves but would be keen to see what happens if it's temporarily filled and what minimum radius curves the loco would run on. Thanks in anticipation. PS. Your improvements look great!