4mm An EM workbench - Peckett, The Marshal
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AJC
Western Thunderer
Yes indeed - fair play to PECO. I don't suppose that the results will be cheap (given the price tag on their OO bullhead) but that really is not the issue. As a facilitating move for those wanting to take some of the challenge out of the gauge change this has enormous potential.
Adam
Adam
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
AJC
Western Thunderer
I haven't the faintest notion and would suspect that - for the majority of EM modellers, either active or existing only in potentia - dare I say it, this might not matter a jot (just as for an awful lot of modellers in all scales and standards, what goes on behind the loco drawhook doesn't seem to matter all that much).
My best guess, since I have no prior knowledge of these but based on this: EMGS commissions Peco for RTR EM Gauge bullhead track/turnouts - Peco, is that they took their existing templates and used these as the basis for the geometry. I've built enough turnouts using these self-same templates to know that they work from my own experience and I would reckon that the same factors apply to these as apply to the OO bullhead track that PECO have produced: to have something that can pass as representative for most British railways from about the 1880s(?) onwards that you can simply get out of a packet is a worthwhile end in itself. Obviously, not everyone will hold to that view as the screeds and screeds of posts on the subject of the existing OO bullhead track on the other channel demonstrate.
Adam
Dikitriki
Flying Squad
Hi Graham,
I don't think this matters in the slightest.
Those that are exercised by the number of bolts on a chair or the panel length will do what they always have - make their own track.
Those that are frightened off EM by the absence of RTL track now have the impetus to have a go. And you can get an awful long way with decent looking flexible track and just a R or L hand point.
This has got to be a great move, and I hope it is supported. Who knows, manufacturers might start looking at EM friendly locos and stock!
Richard
76043
Western Thunderer
I understand the high cost of the PECO bullhead turnouts is due to an increased level of hand finishing than their other turnouts. There is no reason why they should tell us this commercial knowledge, but it would be nice for this to be more widely known and consequently they be given a break on it. Additionally, considering the production is in Devon we should look upon this initiative favourably in my view.
Of course they can't make every type of chair/sleeper combination, having just discovered Cecil J Allen's Modern British Permanent Way 1915 magazine series, via the GE society, no-one ever will!
RE042 Modern British Permanent Way 1915
And maybe it's the beginning of the the end for OO!!
Tony
Of course they can't make every type of chair/sleeper combination, having just discovered Cecil J Allen's Modern British Permanent Way 1915 magazine series, via the GE society, no-one ever will!
RE042 Modern British Permanent Way 1915
And maybe it's the beginning of the the end for OO!!
Tony
AJC
Western Thunderer
Yep. I think that the EMGS are missing a bit of a trick by making availability from them only, at least initially (though I can completely understand why, some sort of marketing arrangement with, say, Eileen's Emporium could work wonders).
Adam
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MartinWales
Western Thunderer
Richard Thomas
New Member
Well done Peco...this certainly shows that you have an eye on the future, and let's face it, you've been a leader for the past 70+ years.
Excellent news hopefully it will be the start of greater popularity for EM and maybe years down the line - long past our lifetimes? - it could be the standard for 4mm instead of OO.
I wish they'd had it 30 odd years ago when I was a member of the EMGS - 4mm is a bit too small for my eyes these days
I wish they'd had it 30 odd years ago when I was a member of the EMGS - 4mm is a bit too small for my eyes these days
AJC
Western Thunderer
Basking in the winter sunshine, Peckett, The Marshal is now all but complete (though I'm a little unsure about the smokebox weathering).
The name, by the by - as well a being a decent name for shunting engine - is a reminder of John Marshall, Bristolian and Union man to his toes, who bought the kit and died before he could get around to building it. Thanks John.
Adam
The name, by the by - as well a being a decent name for shunting engine - is a reminder of John Marshall, Bristolian and Union man to his toes, who bought the kit and died before he could get around to building it. Thanks John.
Adam
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