SteamPower4ever Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Last Sunday my friend Stefan invited to 'open garden' for operation on the newly completed first stage of his garden layout. Here's the video I got. It's a bit longer than usual, so grab a cold one and enjoy the sights and sounds. It's really a great layout. Jens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BNSF 828 Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Excellent! Had time for a couple cold ones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Don't be offended please. I just watched the movie. So I can't help thinking that the sounds at about 2 to 3 min in the video, match the end of Bridge of the river KWai movie's sound track as the train approaches the bridge! (Maybe because I don't run any European trains it sounded correct?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 I love how the trains go into and out of the indoor layout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamPower4ever Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 15 hours ago, enginear joe said: Don't be offended please. I just watched the movie. So I can't help thinking that the sounds at about 2 to 3 min in the video, match the end of Bridge of the river KWai movie's sound track as the train approaches the bridge! No offense taken Sounds more like 3-4 minutes into my video it's the same beat as that of the river Kwai steamer. Maybe they used a BR50 sound for the river Kwai scene to give it more oomph than the small engine? Certainly a 2-cylinder engine anyway, and even small steamers can sound pretty good, so who knows? Good thing Alec Guiness wasn't there to blow up Stefan's bridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
du-bousquetaire Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Very nice track Jens, You will have to double head (vorspan in German) when that BR 01 takes the passenger rake up the grade makes for interesting action stop to add on helper engines, etc. Very nice bridges ands indoor layout. too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamPower4ever Posted June 10, 2016 Author Share Posted June 10, 2016 46 minutes ago, du-bousquetaire said: You will have to double head ... Don't mind if I do Stefan himself is running diesels only, and he's double heading on a regular basis. We talked about adding a small siding after the bridge for a helper engine. There's room for it on the elevated board. Here's one of Stefan's own videos showing a double header and a helper. The BR01 is not mine though. I don't like 3-cylinder engines in DCC as the sound is not good enough. First of all, every decoder seems to use two 3-stroke sounds instead of a correct 6-stroke sound. Secondly, the sounds at speed is compressed way too much, so each stroke sounds wrong and in total it sound really horrible. I normally keep my BR50 at step 20 of 28. Much higher than that and the DCC sound is compressed too much even for a two cylinder freight engine. But in excuse for the poor BR01 slipping - those brass passenger coaches are really heavy, and curves and grades are a bad mix ... Jens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Very nice. Those curves inside the house look slightly super-elevated? (tilted) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamPower4ever Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 8 hours ago, enginear joe said: Very nice. Those curves inside the house look slightly super-elevated? (tilted) Well spotted, Joe. The indoor curves are indeed superelevated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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