IMLEC 2018 - International Model Locomotive Efficiency Competition 4K HDR - Live Steam - Birmingham

[@rbdaviesTB3]

That 'Standard Mikado' was a beast! Blitzed the competition!

[@themidlandcompoundarchive9430]

Went down on Friday, nice to see the rest of the contestants!

[@abuubaydullah1]

This was such a pleasure to watch when i was a kid(in the 60s) one of my mates grandfather use to built engine by hand every little nut and bolt cast even his wheels and he use to take us to springfield park (Rochdale)and we had free rides,for my mate grandfather and some of his friends are one of the reasons i be came an engineer.

[@haroldpearson6025]

I was hooked into the hobby in 1953 and built my first tiny 3.5g 0-4-0 in 3 years. Now 80 I have built 6 engines of various gauges. Still a member of Bham SME. Its time a major TV channel made a full length programme covering the hobby. The vast majority of people think these engines a all factory made.

[@Bruno.Trains]

Super footage Great scenery !!

[@peterpullen958]

Another excellent production ......well done.

[@ukmodelengineering]

Peter Pullen thanks for the kind comment.

[@staffy109]

What an effort for that 0-8-0 to haul 24 adults wow that is a good engine cheers Dennis ps great clip as usual

[@ukmodelengineering]

staffy109 thanks.

[@ryannosaurusrex424]

no offense but im pretty sure its 25

[@dorians4148]

Los felicito son trenecitis de vapor muy bien hechos y yo estoy haciendo una de vapor con mis recursos a mano el triunfo claro esta es hacerla funcionar todo haciéndolo casi a mano hasta las ruedas los pistones y claro tiene imperfecciones pro verla funcionar será todo un júbilo para mi

[@charlesfitton9677]

It would be nice to know how the competition actually works..

[@StaxRail]

Am I right saying that I saw a Britannia outline 2-8-2?

[@ukmodelengineering]

clanline35028 the engine you refer to is a proposed BR 2-8-2 Heavy Goods which shared similarities to the Britannia class as so did the 9F. A number of departures from the designs constructed were suggested, but not acted upon in terms of fabrication. A 2-8-2 was originally proposed instead of the 9F 2-10-0 and S.F. Harrison drew up a Pacific design owed which owed much to Gresley practice. These are outlined in several works by E.S. Cox, especially his British Railways standard steam locomotives.

[@StaxRail]

LMS4767 ah, makes more sense. Thanks for informing me, it looked pretty cool!

[@terrier_productions]

Would love to own either a 3.5" gauge or 5" gauge steam locomotive.. I currently own a 7.25" gauge electric locomotive. I'm never owned a proper miniature steam engine, so I'm guessing that buying a 3 1/2" or 5" steamer would be a good starting point?

[@madguernseyboy]

Can you please direct me as to where i can find the published formulas for IMLEC. thanks

[@mattseymour8637]

Great shots and locos. What loco won the competition?

[@stephensmith799]

A pity BR didn’t build the 2-8-2. It would have done both almost as much the 9F 2-10-0 as built and a little bit more than the Brit 4-6-2 🤔 If only I had been BR CME! (I wish😉)

[@LancashireAndYorkshire]

Seeing Apollo after the 2021 IMLEC makes me really sad.

[@megamanx5760]

3:10 that's a lot a people for such a small engine

[@gregoryvanderdonckt6028]

New title of this video, wheel slippage compilation xD

[@htral]

Noticed the bigger the engine - the more likely it will slip -- is this bad driver wheels, bad rail or operator error?

[@MatecaCorp]

It is entirely dependent on the pull of the loco, the weight of the train and the skill of the driver. (drive wheels are not exactly "good" or "bad") In the above video the larger engines are struggling because their trains are longer. Generally smaller engines are underestimated and larger engines overestimated. (in the hobbyist field anyway)

[@leedorrington8755]

The smaller the engine the more important the adhesive weight becomes. The scale weight of a Britannia for instance in 5"G as in the video would be about 69Kg without the tender. The model would likely be many times that probably over 200Kg. The other thing to consider is scale speeds, if a model is doing 1mph it's really doing 11.3mph(scale), if its doing 6mph that's 78mph(scale) and the majority of steam locomotives didn't generally work much over 60mph....

[@thestarlightalchemist7333]

BLUE PETER EVERYWHERE

[@joshhere___9477]

I am a meme at the BSME, I have a 4-4-2 Atlantic

[@joshhere___9477]

Not trying to boast

[@davidbyrne5623]

Great video bloody awful intro music!