Peckforton Light Railway - Three foot gauge de Winton test run

The first test run of a three foot gauge de Winton vertical boilered loco. Based on Watkin on display in the station foyer at Caernarfon, it has been designed and drawn on TinkerCad and 3D printed. It has four 14500 (AA size) li-ion cells, a Micron MR603b receiver/controller and an early version of the MyLocoSound soundcard (the whistles on the latest version are much better). The Peckforton Light Railway is a 45mm gauge garden railway built to a scale of 15mm/ft and represents a might-have-been three foot narrow gauge railway which ran along the foot of the Peckforton Hills in Cheshire (UK). For more information see riksrailway.blo... - Music "Farting Aroind" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com ). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

[@BlackValiantStudio]

You are a treasure to the model railway community.

[@FeckHallBahn]

Seconded!!

[@rikbennett9]

Thanks Nigel

[@tacfoley4443]

I love the use of the 'wind section' of the orchestra!

[@greatwesternproductions2857]

A fun little loco and the music was definitely something different! Looking forward to seeing more of this project, glad to see the PLR still thriving. Cheers and keep up the great work - Alex

[@MJC19]

Would love to see this in P.L.Rly green

[@flintswenson8234]

I could see this loco being Lord Tolmash's private engine.

[@rikbennett9]

@@flintswenson8234 Might well be ...... 🤔😁

[@andyrbush]

Awesome music

[@rikbennett9]

@@andyrbush Yes, couldn't resist it ...... 😁

[@rpwg68]

The sound doesn't seem right to me! But the rest is really perfect!😃😃😃👍

[@rikbennett9]

@@rpwg68 The music or the soundcard? I might have to go and record a de Winton to get the correct two cylinder sound.

[@rpwg68]

Sorry! The soundcard! The music is very nice!

[@rikbennett9]

@@rpwg68 Yes - I agree (on both counts). I suspect the de Winton has a quite unique chuff - all I have to do now is track down one in steam. 🤔🫤

[@rpwg68]

@@rikbennett9 Yes! And that's really not easy! Maybe a less powerful sound?🤔

[@rikbennett9]

Actually, the MLS card isn't that far out (even to the sound of the whistle) - see 11:35 onwards here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ-0iJeOf5x7bKM