"The little 0-4-0 loco was fascinating..it's from the Guinness
Brewery in Dublin"
These engines also had a special trick up their sleeve, which no-one has
mentioned yet. Guinness' also had broad (5'3") gauge sidings and a
connecting spur to the mailn line at Kingsbridge, with a coupl
Bridge had an interesting oddity in that pedestrians had to pay a
penny to cross but horse-buses were exempt and only charged a farthing fare,
so the very last horse bus in Britain (till 1926) kept going back & forth
across the bridge because it was cheaper to ride than to walk!
Tim Lockley
me bright spark to build a working rig and prvoe
him wrong!)
Tim Lockley
Lindsey Railways Joint Administration
16mm assn 2168
GPR5 Lincoln
Commercial castings for machine-it-yourself designs in the smaller gauges
might be adaptable. A friend had a coalfired indian 262 on 32mm running on
2" drivers machined up from castings for a gauge 1 S.G. design. A wheel is a
wheel, after all. If it was me I'd start by asking Locosteam or Walsall
"DuPont PTFE, Teflon. This is recommended as an oil additive."
Interesting fact #1. The gas you get when PTFE is overheated is phosgene.
This stuff is better known for its use in WW1 era poison gas shells. Now
doubtless the temperatures obtained in the car engine, plus dilution, plus
catalysis, w
