New Roundhouse Garratt Video for 2017

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Watch as our wonderful Roundhouse Engineering Darjeeling ‘D’ Class Garratt steams around our garden railway for the first time this year. Our live steam locomotive is fitted with a superb Summerlands SCRH7- FX Chuffer which we have set to 'fully open' to give a spectacular plume of steam for the video. The 'fireman' has also let the safety valve open to provide the maximum show of steam for filming. The raw video has been slowed down by 50% using Final Cut Pro X with the Optical Flow effect turned on. The music is The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II and taken from YouTube copyright free audio files.


Here is the Roundhouse Engineering website http://www.roundhouse-eng.com


Here is the Summerlands Chuffer website http://www.summerlands-chuffer.co.uk
 
Oh dear, I watched the video before reading the text, I thought I was at last looking at a narrow gauge live steam model being run at a sensible (authentic) speed, then I read that the film had been slowed 50%. Beautiful model, nicely filmed, shame about the true speed of live steam.

David
 
David1226 said:
Oh dear, I watched the video before reading the text, I thought I was at last looking at a narrow gauge live steam model being run at a sensible (authentic) speed, then I read that the film had been slowed 50%. Beautiful model, nicely filmed, shame about the true speed of live steam.

David
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Hi David, Thanks for the post and glad you liked our first video for 2017. I agree about our 16mm Live Steamers all going like The Flying Scotsman but she was just performing for the camera this time. Some folks have fitted a Slowmo to some Roundhouse locos to try and slow everything down although using 50% slow motion in FCP is a lot easier. Our Garratt will pull a huge weight behind her with her two burners and four cylinders and makes a brilliant chuffing sound as well with her Summerlands chuffer, but that will have to be for another video. Take care!
 
What a beauty. Lovely video as usual with quality music that didn't detract from the subject.
 
Jag said:
Hi David, Thanks for the post and glad you liked our first video for 2017. I agree about our 16mm Live Steamers all going like The Flying Scotsman but she was just performing for the camera this time. Some folks have fitted a Slowmo to some Roundhouse locos to try and slow everything down although using 50% slow motion in FCP is a lot easier. Our Garratt will pull a huge weight behind her with her two burners and four cylinders and makes a brilliant chuffing sound as well with her Summerlands chuffer, but that will have to be for another video. Take care!
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I lust after the Roundhouse Garratt and all the Roundhouse reliability except speed. 2 SloMo's would certainly tame the beast. But then you are looking at a 4 Grand Loco. It just would not fit into my East German Railway theme, but then neither does my RH Jack or Stanley.
JonD
 
dunnyrail said:
I lust after the Roundhouse Garratt and all the Roundhouse reliability except speed. 2 SloMo's would certainly tame the beast. But then you are looking at a 4 Grand Loco. It just would not fit into my East German Railway theme, but then neither does my RH Jack or Stanley.
JonD
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What? Not even if you paint them a different livery, and squint into the sun??
;):inlove::inlove:

If I can pass LGB stock as G1 standard-gauge British outline...
 
casey jones snr said:
What a beauty. Lovely video as usual with quality music that didn't detract from the subject.
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Hi Paul, Thanks for the post and hope you and everyone at Charnwood are well. As you know, we like our steam locos to music and with this being the New Year, a Strauss waltz seemed the thing to use. Take care and hope to see you sometime in 2017!
 
Alpineandy said:
If you want your live steamer to slow down give it something to pull..................:)
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Hi, Thanks for the post and of course you are right. Problem is, give her something to pull and she goes like The Flying Scotsman!
 
Rhos Helyg Loco Works said:
Indeed. And turn the gas down. They run very nicely at 15 to 20psi.
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Of course you are right but somehow she just doesn't take any notice and just goes like The Flying Scotsman!
 
Oh dear - you're as bad as that David Attenborough - constantly fiddling with the frame rates to make things appear as something they're not.

It is a nice loco though! - thanks for posting .... :)
 
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Whatever the speed, the loco - accompanied by the symphony - is indeed an ode to joy.
 
I prefer the slow approach to running on our models. It gives time to see the motion moving and of course, our lines tend to be rather short. However, I have just been watching a Youtube of the Welsh Highland and the speed of the motion at full speed looks pretty similar to the video above. So maybe not as unrealistic as we thought - just at the upper end of real.
 
trammayo said:
Do you know something I don't?
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No Mick..

I had only watched the first video, so thought you were making a reference to that. - Blue Danube, Johann Strauss..

Ode to Joy being Friedrick Schiller.

My bad! :rolleyes:
 
PhilP said:
No Mick..

I had only watched the first video, so thought you were making a reference to that. - Blue Danube, Johann Strauss..

Ode to Joy being Friedrick Schiller.

My bad! :rolleyes:
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Yes you are right about Schiller. You can tell I didn't vote for Brexit!
 
Lovely, lovely loco and a great fun video but to my eyes this engine just looks wrong on 45mm gauge track. It's a real shame that the trade keeps giving us these models of early and very untypical 2 foot gauge engines insted of something more representative of Garratt production. The DHR D class loco was an example of that great rarity, an unsuccessfull Garratt.
I suppose it's the price paid for the dominance of 16mm in live steam, but surely given the success of the Accucraft NGG16 it might be viable to produce something like a South African GA, GC or GD or a Western Australian M class? I'd actually be in the market for such a loco, but I'm not going to part with a very substantial sum for something that doesn't match my 45mm track.
 
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philg said:
Lovely, lovely loco and a great fun video but to my eyes this engine just looks wrong on 45mm gauge track. It's a real shame that the trade keeps giving us these models of early and very untypical 2 foot gauge engines insted of something more representative of Garratt production. The DHR D class loco was an example of that great rarity, an unsuccessfull Garratt.
I suppose it's the price paid for the dominance of 16mm in live steam, but surely given the success of the Accucraft NGG16 it might be viable to produce something like a South African GA, GC or GD or a Western Australian M class? I'd actually be in the market for such a loco, but I'm not going to part with a very substantial sum for something that doesn't match my 45mm track.
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I think that the scale as you say is for a 16mm Model and I for one am glad that the Roundhouse Locomotives are all gauge convertable. I guess if one looks at the Darg Garrett as just a Locomotive with no preconception of it being a 2ft Gauge beast it could fit in quite nicely. With a different non Darg Livery say DR Black with Red Wheels, Chassis and perhaps a different Cab and the illusion of a Garret that worked up to the Broken might be completed. Well if I get one that is what will happen to it.
JonD
 
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