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55n3 Live Steam Locomotive Video - hminky - 01-12-2010
About a minute of live steam locomotive action in 55n3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODWNxJr9HHk
Harold
Re: 55n3 Live Steam Locomotive Video - Steamtrains - 01-12-2010
That's great..!!! How can they make such tiny steamers work..?? Do they have "live" boilers..??
Thanks for posting....
Re: 55n3 Live Steam Locomotive Video - nkp_174 - 01-15-2010
The mainline British OO models I've seen use current from the rails to heat water and move the locomotives.
The British modelers would refer to this as 5.5mm scale 3' gauge:
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Re: 55n3 Live Steam Locomotive Video - hminky - 01-15-2010
nkp_174 Wrote:The mainline British OO models I've seen use current from the rails to heat water and move the locomotives.
The British modelers would refer to this as 5.5mm scale 3' gauge:
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Here is a link to Brian Caton's models in OO9:
http://home.freeuk.net/scalerail/highlights.htm
Harold