LeifSpangberg

Nice to hear. So there is still hope... Maybe this year or so... /Leif

Any news ? Any deliveries of metal rails from their web-shop ?? Anything at all.... ??? Should I be worried.... /Leif

Very nice layout, can't wait to see it IRL... /Leif

Thanks guys, for your well done work ! Worth waiting for :-) Leif / Lafe

Very nice idea. Beautiful modern tram. Hmmmm, maybe I should try it in my city, since the streets seems so crowded by cars and bikes. Most probably an expensive way to solve the city-traffic problem during peak hours, but you know...

Very nice looking. What a pitty they can't be used to carry 9V...

Well done Haddock! Very beautiful and nice train. In fact I used to go by this shuttle every day for a couple of months, some years ago, it was during the winter-season, never on time... But, you know, you forget...

YES !!

This is really exciting...

Thanks for your solution. But I was thinking more of a way without soldering, after all it's plastic stuff, and I don't know if the plastic is going to bend or melt or whatever ... Maybe I should try to connect a 1/4 piece of straight rail with a halv curve to make the same final size ( 1/2 curve + 1/4 straight track) ?? Or wait for the ME-project to come avaiable, and save my straight metal tracks, for better purposes /Leif

Waiting for the coming (??) larger radius curves in Metal, I have started to modify some tracks to 1/2 curves & straights, 3/4 straights, switches etc etc in order to have some smoother curves, following the guidelines from OnDrew J Hartigan. So,now it is time to build a bunch of 1/4 straights. He writes "the only time you shouldn't remove the metal rail is track sections shorter than 5 studs"... My question is, how to modify the metal rail, to make it have a good connection to the other tracks ?? If this question has been discussed i this forum earlier, I would appreciate a link. /Leif

A very beautiful engine, and so extremely powerful. Thanks for the opportunity to see it IRL, working uphill at your 8 percent climbing layout. I don't think you will have any problem pulling 72 ore cars, as the original do. My PF-version is a little bit weaker. Pictures will come later, in a new thread... Leif/Lafe, Stockholm

Very beautiful locomotive, running very smoothly with all those rods. I have a few technical questions, since I am building a PF version of the Swedish State Railways electric ore train locomotive Dm3 ( the 9V version showed in anoter thread recently ). My version will be in three sections with one PF L-motor in each, totally one IR-reciever and one battery. A sort of an electric triplex using three pairs of 5-hole-rods. Pictures will come later in another new thread, as my project proceeds. Sorry to say, I am not so very impressed of my engines power... So how powerful is your locomotive ? How many cars is it able to handle ?? 4 motors, but 3 rods? Is each motor handling one rod?? Leif/Lafe, Stockholm