I know. But there are UK based members here and I suggested that at some point the program would find its way onto youtube.

Ha correction. It has already found it's way onto youtube.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVO9LFhTeSk

Deals with the CPRR from around the 17 minute mark but whole show was excellent.

I recall that at the time of the Armistice there were a lot of stored locomotives awaiting shipping out from the UK, but I don't think I've ever heard of any still in the US awaiting shipping. I suspect Baldwin had completed the order and shipped out the locos. That said, I have a sneaky feeling that there was one 4-6-0 did operate in the US after the war, but I can't recall in what capacity or where.

An interesting fact I got from the wiki page is that the loco isn't an original design by Baldwin but based on an earlier French design, which Baldwin 'Americanised'.

Last night I started a thread linking to a BBC documentary that in part looked at the building of the Central Pacific RR. It has now disappeared. Unless Bachmann thinks the BBC is a competitor I cannot see the reason for removing it.

The mainline is 750mm gauge

Döllnitzbahn Oschatz to Glossen, about 16km, 750mm gauge. Diesel hauled during the week, steam hauled at weekends and holidays.

But the industrial line is 600mm gauge.

Feldbahn Glossen quarry museum with an operating 600mm gauge line using former industrial equipment, near the Glossen station of Döllnitzbahn.
Details from http://sinfin.net/railways/world/germany/touristde/tdesachs.html

Quote from: Hamish K on July 20, 2014, 06:25:30 PM
British Bachmann have just announced in OO9 (the British version of HOn30, 1/76 scale on N gauge track) a WW1 Baldwin built 4-6-0t  locomotive and some rolling stock. These were operated by the British Army in France .See the Bachmann Branchlines site.

Perhaps this  could also be produced in On30?

Hamish

Wow! I don't suppose many were expecting that. That's such a versatile loco. Practically any OO9 modeller can justify having at least one or more of them. It follows on from another company producing a ready to run OO9 model of the Lynton & Barnstaple 2-6-2. That's the same line that owned one of Bachmann's large scale 2-4-2 Baldwins.

There is an issue with an On30 model in that British O scale is 1:43 (7mm=1ft) whereas US is of course 1:48. 

I love the trackwork on that 2' line. Seems the German inspectors are a lot easier going than the Brits. Our inspectors would close it down instantly, thus depriving a lot of people their fun.

I recognise what rogertra is describing. And its familiarity with that kind of model that creates my sense of what good and bad modelling is. For example, something US models do a lot is have parallel tracks on a board, usually with a few inches difference in height, depicting two points on a railroad that are in reality dozens of miles apart. That, with one exception that I can think of, doesn't happen in the UK and always to me makes a model look like a toy train set. But in the US it seems to be accepted.

The standard of modelling on that Russian RR is high but its not an accurate depiction of the real thing.

Well, aside from needing to confess that I'm an ex-modeller and have been for many years, despite architectural modelling as a career for a dozen years, I don't see that the "European ideal is to have automatic train operation", certainly, it isn't the British ideal not what I've seen of Continental European modelling.

Both the British and Continental European modelling that I've seen and read of is much less focused on operation than in the US. Instead it focuses on creating a scene in which the railway moves, with the result that track to scenery ratio is much lower than on most US model railroads I've seen via the web and magazines. Consequently, that Russian layout has, from my perspective, a very high ratio of track to scenery, whereas a model like Pempoul http://tinyurl.com/Pempoul is much more typical of European practise with a single station and plenty of open space (albeit Pempoul is unusual in that everything except the rail and the wheels is scratch-built) and not much in the way of operation.   

The differences in approach between US and UK model railways/railroads intrigue me. Perhaps a difference is that in the US model railroad operation is done with the intensity of team sport, whereas in the UK it has the intensity of a nice cup of tea.

It's very impressive, and unlike some of these massive layouts, the modelling is high standard. But I'm, with Rogertra on this. It doesn't move me because it's so impersonal.

That said, if he's got any jobs going....

Intriguing. I imagine it didn't do much for tire wear But honestly, a remotely operated automatic cow-loading device: how on earth didn't I guess!

I agree. A level-crossing (grade-crossing) or a signal is the most obvious that come to mind. One assumes that the flange pressing against the plastic makes something move but exactly what isn't clear. Also.... okay I now have a mental image of the crossing barriers leaping up and down every time a wheel flange depresses that wheel 

I agree about finding the cause of the slow down and implied as much in my post. Basically, if the slow down is the result of an ongoing issue that is likely to get worse and even fry the motors/destroy the gear train, then obviously that has to be fixed or the engine just kept as it is until it grinds to a halt permanently. On the other hand, if the problem is stable then it can be left as it is and the inconvenience of having such widely differing speeds dealt with by a bit of minor surgery rather than a full scale transplant.

Part of the sentimental value in the loco is, one assumes, not just its appearance but the noise it makes and its little quirks, and a replacement mechanism will change all that.

That was spectacular. I just hope it wasn't a dry season.

If the slow running isn't the result of something causing a terminal problem (such as motor burnout) and the real concern is curbing the fast running, why not insert a resistor into the wiring that reduces the current one way but leaves as it is the other. Not sure how that might be done, but someone will know.

Some great locations there. Really liked the passing loop on an 's' bend. A real 'modeller's' prototype.
Thanks Fred