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Hello, my name is Jason & I live in the West Midlands in the UK. I have been interested in garden railways for a while now & have come across this website on numerous occasions when doing a google search of typical questions a newbie might ask. My main interest lies with live steam locomotives & I have already posted my first video of my Regner Heisler, which I assembled from a kit, see here:
My passion for model live steam locos developed from my enthusiasm for toy/model steam engines in any guise, be it stationary or in mobile form. I started off many years ago as a youngster with a Mamod traction engine. This was eventually followed by the now classic Mamod RS1 starter set, which I suppose was my first foray into garden railways. Although having grown up in a flat & having no garden, meant Sunday afternoons laying out the oval of track on the dining room carpet & running the loco round the track, filling the room with the awful smell of those pesky fuel tablets. Until one day when the loco derailed, spilling fuel out of the burner setting the carpet on fire.
Fast forward thirty or so years & with the advent of the internet, we now have worldwide retailers online, eBay, etc. etc, which has rekindled my interest for live steam & this has branched out into garden railways. I don’t have a permanent track as such, but rather a couple of loops of track which I lay out on the patio throughout the summer months to allow me to run a few trains. I have just completed a rake of ten Binnie skip wagons which were great fun to build, as well as four scratch built flatbed wagons, using some unidentified white metal end castings which I picked up cheaply at one of the garden rail shows. My latest project is building the Regner Paul Tram, so any hints & tips from any fellow members who have built the kit would be very welcome. I have heard the cylinder springs can weaken with heat damage over time ?
Well that’s my introduction, I am very much looking forward to being an active member & part of the community, engaging in various discussions with fellow members of the forum. Some of you UK members I may have already spoken to unknowingly at the a the Midlands, or National Garden Rail shows.
Jason.
My passion for model live steam locos developed from my enthusiasm for toy/model steam engines in any guise, be it stationary or in mobile form. I started off many years ago as a youngster with a Mamod traction engine. This was eventually followed by the now classic Mamod RS1 starter set, which I suppose was my first foray into garden railways. Although having grown up in a flat & having no garden, meant Sunday afternoons laying out the oval of track on the dining room carpet & running the loco round the track, filling the room with the awful smell of those pesky fuel tablets. Until one day when the loco derailed, spilling fuel out of the burner setting the carpet on fire.
Fast forward thirty or so years & with the advent of the internet, we now have worldwide retailers online, eBay, etc. etc, which has rekindled my interest for live steam & this has branched out into garden railways. I don’t have a permanent track as such, but rather a couple of loops of track which I lay out on the patio throughout the summer months to allow me to run a few trains. I have just completed a rake of ten Binnie skip wagons which were great fun to build, as well as four scratch built flatbed wagons, using some unidentified white metal end castings which I picked up cheaply at one of the garden rail shows. My latest project is building the Regner Paul Tram, so any hints & tips from any fellow members who have built the kit would be very welcome. I have heard the cylinder springs can weaken with heat damage over time ?
Well that’s my introduction, I am very much looking forward to being an active member & part of the community, engaging in various discussions with fellow members of the forum. Some of you UK members I may have already spoken to unknowingly at the a the Midlands, or National Garden Rail shows.
Jason.
