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Creative => Story-Telling => Topic started by: Giorginetto on August 25, 2011, 19:07:29

Title: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Giorginetto on August 25, 2011, 19:07:29: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGiorginetto?feature=mhee#p/u (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGiorginetto?feature=mhee#p/u)

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Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: PrimusPilus on August 25, 2011, 19:12:08: Roller coaster ride! :clap:
But you have to better stabilize the suspended sections, where you can feel the train bobbing up and down. That can't be good on the tracks.
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Wolf Knight on August 25, 2011, 19:17:27: awesome awesome awesome!!!! ;D
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Giorginetto on August 25, 2011, 20:34:46: The track layput will have major improvements tomorrow. It needs straigntening, levelling , better support and some changes in the desiggn etc , afetr all this was my very frist attempt . Watch this space though, i will be getting much more track, more trains, wagons , incl freight trains etc and the HighBAck Mountain Train Line will become far more complex in the future !!!!!
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: cowabounga on August 26, 2011, 06:27:43: Nice ride, George! Can you show us the train itself too?
Best,
Arnaud
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: playmo1989 on August 26, 2011, 08:07:53: great work george !!!!! (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Transports/train-045.gif)
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Giorginetto on August 26, 2011, 08:31:31: Quote from: cowabounga on August 26, 2011, 06:27:43
Nice ride, George! Can you show us the train itself too?
Best,
Arnaud

Thanks Arnaud, i posted some pictures in the other thread which has pictures of the trains etc , also will probably take a few more pictures in the weekend, i want to bring up here the 4300 also and take a few more pictures of the lot !!!!

PS: Please PM me reference the Knight we talked about ;) ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Giorginetto on August 26, 2011, 09:22:00: Quote from: cowabounga on August 26, 2011, 06:27:43
Nice ride, George! Can you show us the train itself too?
Best,
Arnaud

Thanks Arnaud !!! I have some pictures of the trains in the other thread . i will also be taking some more pictures probably in the weekend !!! Will be posting in the next few minutes another video, on board the 4052 this time !!! :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Giorginetto on August 26, 2011, 09:48:54: Not long ago i finished improving the track and made some minor other improvements, only to be faced with the hard fact as ' There is never enough LGB track ' ( reminds you of something ?? :lol: :lol: :lol:) as i really needed a few more tracks. Anyways, this time i put the camera on the front of one passenger wagon attached to the 4052, when the 4052 is going downslope i really need to lower the speed setting of the JUMBO from 6 to 3 otherise the train derails !!!! ( at 14V), shortly after the starting point for a short time i put maximum voltage of 24V , the train was going like a rocket !!!! Anyways , here is the video of it all. I am off to the mediaval den tomorrow and not today as i really need to take a rest today so i might not be able to finish the mediaval set up this weekend and continue over the necxt two weekends ( well not the next one as we have the western diorama) . Anyways, the playmobil trains have been grat fun yesterday and today morning , i will expand the track and usew gravel under it in the future etc, the highback mountain line will grow and grow in the near future !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAXqV7GsrIk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAXqV7GsrIk)

I also tried the original playmobil transformer and is working 100% fine. In fact i have been using this transformer for the pasrt hour or so !!!
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Wolf Knight on August 26, 2011, 11:19:31: you added a longer curve George!!! Nice!! ;D
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: bonniebeth on August 26, 2011, 11:33:26: Very nice, but I got motion sick watching it!
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Giorginetto on August 26, 2011, 11:36:33: Quote from: Wolf Knight on August 26, 2011, 11:19:31
you added a longer curve George!!! Nice!! ;D

Yeap its a much smoother turn now. At the downhill i have to slow the trains down if they have wagons in the bvack otherwise at max speed they fell off the track h=just before the LGB bridge. I wil be taking some noight pictures also tonite or tomorrow !!
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: zugpferdchen on August 26, 2011, 14:21:58: George, do you want to have more switch tracks with sidings & passing loops, e.g. for shunting (now it's a very big »oval« with 2 sidings/1 railway station, right?)?
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Giorginetto on August 26, 2011, 14:37:37: Quote from: zugpferdchen on August 26, 2011, 14:21:58
George, do you want to have more switch tracks with sidings & passing loops, e.g. for shunting (now it's a very big »oval« with 2 sidings/1 railway station, right?)?

Absolutely, obe think for sure i need to put a decceleration switch at the downslope section. can you post me a link as to what switch/ LGB part number i need for this ??
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: Giorginetto on August 27, 2011, 10:26:18: Here is a video of the 4051 train along the Highback mountain line ( at some point my feet can be seen near the train, aw well ... :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[) but the camera is not on the train this time !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D46gP39R9uE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D46gP39R9uE)

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: bonniebeth on August 27, 2011, 10:30:22: Well, that's when you're glad you aren't wearing tweety bird slippers. :P

Nice video, it give a good view of the layout, seeing it from that angle.
Title: Re: On Board the 4051 engine on the Highback mountain train
Post by: playmofire on August 27, 2011, 20:11:47: It's much better seeing the layout like that as you can see more clearly how it curves and what "countryside" it goes through.