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Alfa V8		#1 Posted : 20 October 2011 22:55:20(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Hi all Large scale at its best, one third fullsize Finnished a new live steam locomotive recently, First track test was last weekend, a short video on youtube, the link is below the photo, http://www.flickr.com/ph...250473747/in/photostream She ran very well on its first outing regards Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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kimballthurlow		#2 Posted : 20 October 2011 23:43:30(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 18/03/2007(UTC) Posts: 6,668 Location: Brisbane, Australia		Hi Hannes, Beautiful engine. That is a big engine on 7 1/4. What gauge was the original? regards Kimball
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river6109		#3 Posted : 20 October 2011 23:56:33(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/01/2009(UTC) Posts: 14,715 Location: On 1965 Märklin Boulevard just around from Roco Square		Hannes, You are an engineering marvle and your workshop, its a gourmet kitchen of goodies. What does it feel having achieved what most of us only see or dream about it. I would love to hear a rundown of how this loco proceeded from its starting flag and its final stages. it looks to me everything is precision work so where can anything go wrong with it on its maiden run ? My score is 20/10 John
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Jeremy Palmer		#4 Posted : 21 October 2011 00:06:47(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/04/2005(UTC) Posts: 2,464 Location: St. Michael, Barbados		Hannes, Awesome, ditto John 20/10. Jeremy.
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nevw		#5 Posted : 21 October 2011 00:25:58(UTC) Retweet
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Loadmaster		#6 Posted : 21 October 2011 00:29:15(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 03/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 898 Location: So Cal		Hannes, WOW ! ! ! ! ! what a wonderful accomplishment, do I understand that you built if from scratch? How about a video of it in operation and tell us something about the location where you operated it. There are several "live steam" groups here in So Cal, My wife looks at my expression and says NO BOBBY, NO BOBBY, NO BOBBY.... I can dream though. Robert
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Alfa V8		#7 Posted : 21 October 2011 06:49:19(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: Loadmaster Hannes, WOW ! ! ! ! ! what a wonderful accomplishment, do I understand that you built if from scratch? How about a video of it in operation and tell us something about the location where you operated it. I can dream though. Robert Hi Robert & others Yes it was built from scratch, I had some copies of original drawings and access to the real locomotive which has been resored at Sanstone Estates, South Africa. The test took place at a track in Pretoria, South Africa. A video clip can be viewed at I will post a link to pictures of its construction later Regards Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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Alfa V8		#8 Posted : 21 October 2011 20:33:53(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: river6109 Hannes, You are an engineering marvle and your workshop, its a gourmet kitchen of goodies. What does it feel having achieved what most of us only see or dream about it. I would love to hear a rundown of how this loco proceeded from its starting flag and its final stages. it looks to me everything is precision work so where can anything go wrong with it on its maiden run ? My score is 20/10 John Hi john & Others On its maiden nothing mechanical when wrong, the only problem was the whistle, I had tuned it on compressed air but as the viscocity of steam is different I will have to fine tune it on steam. The construction of some of the parts, from start to finnish can be viewed at ( more than 400 pictures) http://www.flickr.com/ph.../sets/72157611605711680/ It took more than 5000 hours to make and operates at a working pressure of 5 bar / 75 psi, takes about twenty minutes to raise steam from cold Regards Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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steventrain		#9 Posted : 21 October 2011 21:05:10(UTC) Retweet
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kariosls37		#10 Posted : 21 October 2011 21:33:12(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 02/01/2009(UTC) Posts: 1,067 Location: Auckland, New Zealand		Great work Hannes. I work on 42" models, and it definetely takes a lot of skill, not to mention time an expensive machine tools to build somthing like that. Well done. I agree with John, that it would be very interesting to see a commented build report of one of these beauties, to show us what's involved. By the way, 75lbs in 20 mins sounds pretty quick. We take 4 hours to get 180lbs on ours when it is still warm from the previous day. Then again, the boiler on it is a bit bigger.
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Alfa V8		#11 Posted : 22 October 2011 07:58:46(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: kimballthurlow Hi Hannes, Beautiful engine. That is a big engine on 7 1/4. What gauge was the original? regards Kimball The original is for 2 foot gauge http://www.flickr.com/ph...in/set-72157612927059571
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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river6109		#12 Posted : 22 October 2011 08:19:24(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/01/2009(UTC) Posts: 14,715 Location: On 1965 Märklin Boulevard just around from Roco Square		Hannes, What happen with the front grate, I've noticed the 2 inside ribs have a different bend (original 1:1 photo) then the rest of the 8 ribs. A full explanation is warranted. John
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Alfa V8		#13 Posted : 22 October 2011 21:05:40(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: river6109 Hannes, What happen with the front grate, I've noticed the 2 inside ribs have a different bend (original 1:1 photo) then the rest of the 8 ribs. A full explanation is warranted. John Hi John The middle two ribs have certainly been modified as you can see from this picture http://www.flickr.com/ph...in/set-72157611605711680 this however has not been a official modification, I was told that a driver that had left about five years ago had been responsible for this modification, to me it looks like a bump which I would call damage. I get the same sort of answers when I enquire about damage to my company vehicles Regards Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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Webmaster		#14 Posted : 22 October 2011 22:04:28(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 25/07/2001(UTC) Posts: 11,161		Absolutely Great! Didn't even know we have these skills in the forum...
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Tony		#15 Posted : 24 October 2011 12:34:12(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 18/09/2004(UTC) Posts: 726 Location: Cape Town		Just fantastic - nice job - and that is now the workshop/ machine-shop I want
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Jeremy Palmer		#16 Posted : 24 October 2011 13:31:58(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/04/2005(UTC) Posts: 2,464 Location: St. Michael, Barbados		The pressure gauge (at 42 seconds in the video) is a labour of love. Could you give us contact details of manufacturer , Jeremy.
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Alfa V8		#17 Posted : 24 October 2011 14:29:04(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: Tony Just fantastic - nice job - and that is now the workshop/ machine-shop I want Thanks Tony, I should perhaps add that the wokshop is used to earn a living, but is very usefull if one is interested in live steam locomotives in the larger scales, providing all the machining facilities required. Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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Loadmaster		#18 Posted : 24 October 2011 20:08:02(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 03/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 898 Location: So Cal		Thanks for the video and flicker links. I googled Sanstove Estates and they really have quite an operation. http://www.sandstone-estates.com/ I was looking to see if they had a shop for the sale of some of there goodies. There was mention of a double DVD package of some train operations. When I was still in the USAF and based at Travis AFB, California, there was a Colonel who I flew and he was into live steam. He had a SP Cab Forward engine, an oil burner but I don't know if he built if from scratch or it was a kit. He would run it at Tilden Park which was in the hills East of Oakland/Berkley California. This was in the late 80s. Robert
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Alfa V8		#19 Posted : 24 October 2011 21:25:31(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: Loadmaster Thanks for the video and flicker links. I googled Sanstove Estates and they really have quite an operation. http://www.sandstone-estates.com/ I was looking to see if they had a shop for the sale of some of there goodies. There was mention of a double DVD package of some train operations. Robert Hi Robert Send a mail to joannewest@btinternet.com she will put you on the right track to obtain a set of DVD's. The video was recorded profesionally, with quality photo's from various photographers, I have a few pictures of the event on flickr which can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/ph.../sets/72157626406445487/ all narrow gauge. Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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NZMarklinist		#20 Posted : 03 November 2011 03:11:53(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/03/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,757 Location: Auckland NZ		Hi Hannes, Fantasic work there, lovely engineering and result, and great photo documentation. Thanks for sharing
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Alfa V8		#21 Posted : 03 November 2011 17:02:48(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: NZMarklinist Hi Hannes, Fantasic work there, lovely engineering and result, and great photo documentation. Thanks for sharing Thanks Glen and others for your kind words and high scores by some ( 20/10 ), much apreciated, building one of these is a labour of love over quite a long period. Steaming it is the cherry on the cake. My own favourite picture is this taken by my son http://www.flickr.com/ph...265262709/in/photostream Best regards to all Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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Alfa V8		#22 Posted : 29 August 2012 19:12:42(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: Alfa V8 Hi all Large scale at its best, one third fullsize Finnished a new live steam locomotive recently, First track test was last weekend, regards Hannes The locomotive has run on a few occations now, she steams very well with plenty power at the drawbar, a few pictures of her in action at the links below http://www.flickr.com/ph...in/set-72157629981130289 http://www.flickr.com/ph...in/set-72157629981130289 http://www.flickr.com/ph...in/set-72157629981130289 http://www.flickr.com/ph...in/set-72157629981130289 regards Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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kariosls37		#23 Posted : 30 August 2012 01:25:51(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 02/01/2009(UTC) Posts: 1,067 Location: Auckland, New Zealand		Great engine Out of curiosity, how long do your grates last on a steamer like this?
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Alfa V8		#24 Posted : 01 September 2012 19:54:45(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: kariosls37 Great engine Out of curiosity, how long do your grates last on a steamer like this? They are made from stainless steel, have not burnt one out yet in any of my locomotives, the model tracks are relatively short, about a kilometer or less, so the fire does not get very hot for long, on a light load it will not get very hot at all.
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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Webmaster		#25 Posted : 01 September 2012 21:00:32(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 25/07/2001(UTC) Posts: 11,161		Looks absolutely great! If I would ever be in the position to afford a mansion, I now know where to go to for help with a railroad on the premises... Excellent work!
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steventrain		#26 Posted : 01 September 2012 21:03:31(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 21/10/2004(UTC) Posts: 31,606 Location: United Kingdom		Lovely engine.
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intruder		#27 Posted : 19 May 2013 02:15:20(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/08/2006(UTC) Posts: 5,382 Location: Akershus, Norway		Hannes, I have not noticed this topic until now, sorry. I have looked through all the 400 photos, and hav just one comment: I am very impressed about the fantastic job! Congratulations.
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Bigdaddynz		#28 Posted : 19 May 2013 02:43:51(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 17/09/2006(UTC) Posts: 18,663 Location: New Zealand		Originally Posted by: intruder Hannes, I have not noticed this topic until now, sorry. Same here! That's a fantastic achievement!
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Janne75		#29 Posted : 17 July 2013 10:52:06(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/03/2012(UTC) Posts: 2,550 Location: Finland		Hannes, Wow! I have not visited this big scale part of marklin-users.net forum and just saw this first time. Fantastic work! Locomotive looks beautiful and runs well. How much does it weight? Best regards, Janne
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Iamnotthecrazyone		#30 Posted : 21 July 2013 03:26:00(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/01/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,044		I didn't see it either. Congratulations, it is a stunning job! Your workshop is
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Alfa V8		#31 Posted : 25 July 2013 18:06:27(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 20/01/2007(UTC) Posts: 211 Location: , Mpumalanga, South Africa		Originally Posted by: Janne75 Hannes, Wow! I have not visited this big scale part of marklin-users.net forum and just saw this first time. Fantastic work! Locomotive looks beautiful and runs well. How much does it weight? Best regards, Janne With boiler at operating level and tender filled, just over 700Kg Hannes
		Every day provides new opertunities. H0 mostly Marklin, still using my 6021, LGB in Gauge 1, live steam in larger gauges.
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