Unhappy with the trucks purchased for the Narrow Gauge section, I have bought some slightly larger ones, together with a second loco.

Here they are as delivered, as finished and on the layout. I still have a bit of work to do on the couplings, it appears these small locos have various types of couplings, but they aren't all compatible with each other.

I have been doing further work on the narrow gauge railway and have now laid all the track, ballasted some of it and can run a loco from end to end.

Here is a video of the loco in action.

Building an 009 Loco.

009 Locos, (Narrow Gauge 4mm scale) loco's are quite expensive but you can buy 3D printed models which you construct yourself.

To go with these you need an electric chassis and I used a KATO 11-109 Chassis purchased from Tramfabriek, the owner of who I saw at Rattery Exhibition.

The kit (shown in last blog) itself was purchased from Brooks 3D Models.

It was supposed to be easy to put together without instructions but I followed a Youtube video Constructing the Glyn Valley Loco which was very good.

Pictures follow of various stages in the construction. The scale is very small and it wasn't that easy. Tweezers are essential as are good eyes, mine could be better!

And here it is on my layout with some slate trucks also bought fron Brooks 3D Models and put together by me.