Cool Fell Engine build

[Jono]

Check out this fell engine build on utube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IEqPrAB5Tg

The H class Fell engine operated on three rails. It had outside stephensons or Joy valve gear as well as an inside engine driving horizontal wheels that clamped either side of the centre rail. It operated on a three mile section of track with an average gradient of one in fifteen just north of Wellington New Zealand

Im quite impressed to see someone building this Engine

[mbrown]

.. and even more impressed when they build a track with three rails to run it on!

Having said that, there are some, I believe, who have built Ken Swann's "Koppel" rack and adhesion loco and installed rack rails to test it on, so all things are possible!

Malcolm

[steamer5]

Hi Scroggin,
Thanks for posting this!

If you are interested here’s a link to the Fell Engine Museum....... www.fellmuseum.org.nz/

Anybody coming to NZ & interested in railways......most of you!..... it’s worth a visit! The actual railbed is now a cycle trail..... if you are keen!
I visited back in 92 or 93, & when we got home was telling my neighbor ..... turned out he had been a guard on the railway & lived at Crosscreek! We went again 2 years ago & the museum has come on a lot! There is now a Model Engineer track pretty close by.

Cheers Kerrin

[David]

I've just watched the first 5 videos. He doesn't seem to hold back on his cutting depths!

Is the way he did the axleboxes prototypical to that type of loco? He's slotted the horns and put a central tongue on the sides of the axleboxes so it doesn't look like there is any clearance for the axleboxes to rotate when the wheels move up or down on one side.

It seems to have outside Stephson's valve gear, that will look cool. And it looks very complicated where those centre rail grippers are. It should be a great build to watch.

I'm in awe of his F360 drawing skills. I can make 3D models but am yet to create a usable drawing from the models. I have to use derived dimensions on the sketches and the inspect function and make my own scrap drawings with paper and pencil.

[steamcoal]

I visited the Museum when were up there in Featherston.

Well worth a visit and can be incorporated into some wine trails for a jolly nice days outing. The full size museum loco runs on a rolling road from memory so the motion can be viewed in operation.

The operation of the railway, the gradients and the firing and braking of the train is impressive. Not big trains naturally but they allowed the line to function as an important transport link.

Hayden

[chrisb]

Regarding the above comment about Koppel, the late Ken Swan and the Beamish Model Engineers, built the Beamish Cog Railway.

m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=hZCFzT9Fb2g