Hello from Lower Saxony

[lennart]

Hello all,

my name is Lennart and I now got around to sign up here after being a silent reader for several months.

I am a model engineer since 5 years and have startet of with steam engines, stirling engines and after gaining some experience built some two stroke IC engines.

After finishing school I moved to another town to study mechanical engineering, wich I am still doing and coincidentally I've got a model engineering society with an ground Level 5 Inch gauge track nearly infront of my door. After spending my childhood with an Märklin H0 train set I can now combine my interest in railways and the model engineerring just perfectly. I have thought about staring building steam locos on 45mm gauge some years ago but discarded that idea shortly afterwards. It would have gotten just too fiddly for my liking.

Before getting in to too much detail about my current projects, i'd like to show you some of my previously built engines. I'd like just to point out some of them here:

Having built only pretty small engines before (Stuart No.10, Stuart Boiler feed pump and some own designs) , I set off to build something al little bit larger and Chose the James Coombes wich was eventually completed. I prefered to leave pretty much of it unpainted with smooth but not polished surfaces.

Stuart James Coombes (99) by Lennart Glauche, auf Flickr

Stuart James Coombes (101) by Lennart Glauche, auf Flickr

After a visit in the mining museum of Saxony (roughly translated) where a large number of old Heinrici stirling engines was displayed at the time I decidet to build a full size replica. I could get some drawings for the basic engine and could take some detailed measurements from another engine. I made the casting Patterns form MDF an a friend of mine cast them in brass afterwards.

Heinrici Motor Nachbau (89) by Lennart Glauche, auf Flickr

Heinrici Motor Nachbau (88) by Lennart Glauche, auf Flickr

The special double acting valveless water pump had to be designed only from some external dimensions. It does not create lots of pressure but enough to keep the water circulating to cool the engine's cylinder.

Now to make a start on 5 Inch gauge I picked something simple. A gemarn prototype of a heavy duty flat wagon, wich was built by numerous modele engineers here before. After about 9 months ist rolled the first meters on its own wheels. With an wooden Boy on top, it will be used as the battery- and driving wagon for the E69 02 wich I am currently building.

5 Zoll Rlmmp (70) by Lennart Glauche, auf Flickr

5 Zoll Rlmmp (71) by Lennart Glauche, auf Flickr

Time will tell when I finish the electric locomotive and can approach a steam locomotive. I have chosen a Kennion's Chub to begin with as ist is simple and light but has an appropiate wheel diameter so that ist does not Need to be thrashed to keep up to the speed of the other locos. There will propably a thread about the Chub shortly here, firtzs to discuss some of the design Points wich I'd like to Change before building can begin.

Since english is not my first language, I apologize for any grammar or spelling faults in my posts.

Cheers

Lennart

[JonL]

Welcome Lennart, and I don't think you need to worry about your language skills, you were perfectly understandable.

The quality of your work seems excellent, I look forward to seeing more of it.

Thanks,
Jon.

[mbrown]

Welcome to the forum!

I am taking a strong interest in German steam locomotives right now as I am planning my next model to be 99 3462 - the ex-Mecklenburg Pommersche Schmalspurbahn loco now on the Waldeisenbahn Muskau which must be fairly near you. I had a great few days there recently measuring and photographing the loco.

I can assure you that your English is far better than my German - but Google Translate is a great invention and got me out of some tricky situations when I was in Weisswasser at the WEM!

I love the look of your models!

Malcolm

[lennart]

Thank you for your replies.

Sadly, I live in Lower Saxony in the north western region of Germany (my workshop is near Hannover and the club track is in Brunswick) and here are barely any full sive steam railways. There are several in saxony in the eastern region, where you have been recently but that ist some 300 km away.

But I will spend my holydays down there ath the end of july and hopefully visit the WEM. So If there is an interest in some more pictures from there I will eventually be able to post some here.

Coincidentally our ME-society is part of an full size railway museum. Two weeks ago we had celebrated the 70th anniversary of the society with our two (full size) steam locos in steam. I had the pleasure to drive two 5 Inch gauge steam engines of other members that weekend but hopefully I will have my own Steamer there in some years...