New Hornby Black 5 The Glasgow Highlander - on track!

[@piccadillymodelrailways]

An excellent and honest review Tony, thank you. I haven't received mine yet as its part of the next batch. However, I saw a video suggesting the poor haulage is due to a spring under the front pony truck lifting the driving wheels slightly off the track. The creator removed said springs which vastly restored the hauling capacity.

[@DavidBrown-lh1vf]

Hello Tony. This is the first of your videos I’ve seen. Have to say very informative and helpful.👍 I’m waiting on delivery of the steam generator version, but suspect it’s the same model underneath as in your review. Admittedly the lamps do look a little out of scale, but suspect they’re as small as they can be in order to make them interchangeable. Brightness though may well be changeable within a CV setting for DCC users, or, for the brave, willing to remove the body, perhaps an additional resistor in series with the lighting feed. I did some experiments with the DCC Concepts steam era ground signals a while back and ended up with a resistor value of 43k ohms to achieve a more realistic level of brightness. The usual 1 or 2k ohm enables the signal to light up the whole yard. Again, thanks for an excellent and honest review. I look forward to seeing some more of your content. 👍

[@richard9984-e3z]

Thanks for your inciteful review. I have recently purchased this model and whilst I am quite pleased with it, the tractive effort is a concern as the locomotive is quite light in weight. This has caused problems in hauling coaches up a 2% track incline, which also runs around a curve. Can just manage to haul 4 coaches up this incline but if starting from stand still wheel slip occurs. I can live with the other (minor) faults as the detail is nothing short of superb. Keep up the good work.

[@mels1811]

Wonderful video

[@TheMusicalElitist]

Have to disagree with you about the Black 5 from the 70s: mine runs like a charm and looks amazing too. Great video, nonetheless, Tony.

[@aberfordwest4003]

Nice to see one working, it’s a shame about the haulage and then price but oh well, still looks like a lovely model though

[@stephendavies6949]

Hello. Do you have any advice on how to improve its haulage capacity? I've seen some mention modifying the front bogie spring & adding weight. What's your advice? I have an example from the noughties, and am very happy with it. But if the haulage issue can be easily solved, then I may be tempted! Thanks.

[@piccadillymodelrailways]

@@stephendavies6949 Hi I dont have mine yet, as its part of the second batch. Although a video, on these, suggested the problem was caused by the spring under the front pony truck, as it was lifting the driving wheels ever so slightly off the track. The KZbinr (cant remember who it was, sorry), removed the spring and the haulage capacity was vastly improved. Clearly your choice if you do this though.

[@stephendavies6949]

@piccadillymodelrailways If I do decide to buy one, I'll try this fix. Thanks

[@stephendavies6949]

@piccadillymodelrailways If I do decide to buy one, I'll try this fix. Thanks

[@zerosen1972]

​@@stephendavies6949Try a magnet and mag strip system. This grounds the locomotive and adds about two to four extra car haulage for each locomotive. My layout of choice is Ex-SECR in the 1920s and 1930s and I stripped the entire thing with Powerbase Magnetic Systems. My D1s and H Class were actually pulling prototypical passenger trains after that!

[@stephendavies6949]

@@zerosen1972 Thanks for the tip. I'm just about old enough to remember the Triang "Magnedesion" system, where magnets were placed in the loco bogies that pulled the locos onto the steel track. Back to the future, eh?

[@little_britain]

Do you use Spratt and Winkle on passenger stock too?