The picture shows my chum Ian about to run his G3 4-6-0 Patriot. The originals were designed in the 1930s and ran on the London Midland and Scottish railway.
With a tractive effort of 26000 lbs they were not intended for 'top link' work and would be classified more for mixed traffic working.
They were designed by Fowler with parallel boilers but later modified with tapered boilers. As you can see on the accompanying video, this model is based on the Fowler original
This model is coal fired and has had the usual preparation to get the pressure to a running level.
Make sure that all working parts are lubricated, Empty the steam oil chest of the runny mix of water and oil from previous run. Get the water into the tender. Use the hand pump with the by-pass open and check water is flowing back into the tender.
Close the by-pass and hand pump water into the boiler. Check the sight glass and fit the suction fan into the chimney. Then light the fire which is initially charcole and paraffin. Once there is signs of pressure gradually feed fire with anthracite.
Safety valves lift and keep checking water and fire levels. Attach rolling stock open drain cocks and there you go.
On the youtube video my friend appears to be somewhat nervous and he was concerned about the water level in the sight glass which was difficult to see. An interesting point here. The maker wanted to keep the model prototypical whereas from a driving view point a larger glass and pressure gauge would be more beneficial (like the Aster Garratt for instance!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx-N7KnkXQg&list=UUjUA51QsBdV8jf0f2fUIfBA&index=1 < Link To http://www.youtube.com/wa...f0f2fUIfBA&index=1
With a tractive effort of 26000 lbs they were not intended for 'top link' work and would be classified more for mixed traffic working.
They were designed by Fowler with parallel boilers but later modified with tapered boilers. As you can see on the accompanying video, this model is based on the Fowler original
This model is coal fired and has had the usual preparation to get the pressure to a running level.
Make sure that all working parts are lubricated, Empty the steam oil chest of the runny mix of water and oil from previous run. Get the water into the tender. Use the hand pump with the by-pass open and check water is flowing back into the tender.
Close the by-pass and hand pump water into the boiler. Check the sight glass and fit the suction fan into the chimney. Then light the fire which is initially charcole and paraffin. Once there is signs of pressure gradually feed fire with anthracite.
Safety valves lift and keep checking water and fire levels. Attach rolling stock open drain cocks and there you go.
On the youtube video my friend appears to be somewhat nervous and he was concerned about the water level in the sight glass which was difficult to see. An interesting point here. The maker wanted to keep the model prototypical whereas from a driving view point a larger glass and pressure gauge would be more beneficial (like the Aster Garratt for instance!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx-N7KnkXQg&list=UUjUA51QsBdV8jf0f2fUIfBA&index=1 < Link To http://www.youtube.com/wa...f0f2fUIfBA&index=1
lovely model 
