Building the Regner Paul Tram Kit

[Centrifugal Governor]

Nice description of your build.
I think those english instructions were written by me. (I found that scanning the german with the scanner set to 'german' meant the umlauts, etc., all came through in the resulting PDF. I could copy the text to google translate and get a quite a good result very quickly.)

The only thing to add is a flame/heat shield on the front over the spring. There's a slot at the bottom of the boiler front-plate, and the heat exiting that cooks the spring. Described here:
Regner
Photos of the heat shield in this thread:
Lighting a butane fired locomotive

The latter thread also points out that you can file the end of the chassis to allow the body to be lifted over it, using only the 2 bolts on the sides to hold it on.

Thank you for those links, with lots of helpful suggestions.
I have been able to use my phone to a certain extent, to scan & translate the German text. So far, the flame has remained in the fire tube since fitting the air control ring on the burner. The answer seems to be with not over firing the burner so it seems a watchful eye is needed to glance down the chimney every now & again to make sure the flame is burning in the fire tube & not in the smoke box.

 

[Jasper]

That loco is running very smoothly! Well done!

 

[Centrifugal Governor]

That loco is running very smoothly! Well done!

Thank you, it is still running in at the moment.
After a few more steamings the cylinder faces & gear mesh should be bedded in nicely.

 

[Centrifugal Governor]

Bodywork added to chassis.

Some of the bodywork fittings I have left off to allow easy removal of the body for installing the R/C components. For now I shall operate the tram manually. The roof partly obstructs the pressure gauge dial, but as it needs removing to top up the water, it isn’t really an issue. (The assembly manual suggests mounting the pressure gauge in the side window for ease of reading.)

To conclude, a very enjoyable build & easy to put together kit of fantastic quality. Parts are beautifully machined & all the pre-drilled & threaded bolt holes all line up. Well done Regner I say !

 

[Alpineandy]

Bodywork added to chassis.

Some of the bodywork fittings I have left off to allow easy removal of the body for installing the R/C components. For now I shall operate the tram manually. The roof partly obstructs the pressure gauge dial, but as it needs removing to top up the water, it isn’t really an issue. (The assembly manual suggests mounting the pressure gauge in the side window for ease of reading.)

To conclude, a very enjoyable build & easy to put together kit of fantastic quality. Parts are beautifully machined & all the pre-drilled & threaded bolt holes all line up. Well done Regner I say !

That's a lovely loco, I have a couple of Regners and they both run well. Excellent engineering on them.

 

[Centrifugal Governor]

Could anyone recommend suitable passenger coaches which would sit well behind the Paul Tram ?

 

[dunnyrail]

Could anyone recommend suitable passenger coaches which would sit well behind the Paul Tram ?

Yes the LGB Barmer Coaches work perfectly, there are a couple at Tony Green’s shop just now at £175 the pair, he lists them somewhat erroneously as Mountain Railway Coaches but they always look superb behind a Steam Tram loco.

LGB Coaches

Steam, RC and G Scale Railway Models

tonygreensteammodels.co.uk

 

[Centrifugal Governor]

Yes the LGB Barmer Coaches work perfectly, there are a couple at Tony Green’s shop just now at £175 the pair, he lists them somewhat erroneously as Mountain Railway Coaches but they always look superb behind a Steam Tram loco.

LGB Coaches

Steam, RC and G Scale Railway Models

tonygreensteammodels.co.uk

Thanks… They do look very tempting

 

[Rhinochugger]

Track test of the chassis before adding bodywork

Clearly, what it needs is a centrifugal governor

 

[Graham Austin]

Nice description of your build.
I think those english instructions were written by me. (I found that scanning the german with the scanner set to 'german' meant the umlauts, etc., all came through in the resulting PDF. I could copy the text to google translate and get a quite a good result very quickly.)

The only thing to add is a flame/heat shield on the front over the spring. There's a slot at the bottom of the boiler front-plate, and the heat exiting that cooks the spring. Described here:
Regner
Photos of the heat shield in this thread:
Lighting a butane fired locomotive

The latter thread also points out that you can file the end of the chassis to allow the body to be lifted over it, using only the 2 bolts on the sides to hold it on.

Sorry Fred, but there is no way I would have used your instructions. I am quite capable of reading German but although the pictures supplied by Regner are very good, the instructions (if you just translate them) leave a lot to be desired and can on occasions lead to you assembling parts in the wrong order. I have always built the models myself and written out my own English instructions as I build, ironing out any problems as I go. Regner also tend to be slow in changing the text when they upgrade the parts. For instance with the tram it has had several upgrades. That slot in the smokebox is no long there in later models, there are new Teflon bearings pushed into the chassis, so there are no large brass washers for all the axles (not to mention the new stainless steel burner). If you wanted R/C in the tram I have found it is easier to build in the R/C as you assemble the tram from a kit. So when customers ask for a RTR tram with R/C that is what I do. The tram is a very popular model and I have sold around 40 here in the UK (and I've exported several too) fourteen of them I have built with R/C.