my first loco was a RAILMOTOR started when i was 16, cycling up to don's house in adgestone to inspect his No.1 RAILMOTOR and buy the plans and castings many moons ago. don advised the No.2 chassis with the No.1 boiler, which advice i followed. it proved to be a wonderful loco and would steam on a candle. the EMMA VICTORIA has certain design similarities but over sized cylinder bores. ok if you build the loco badly and drive it badly and potter around on 30 psi, but otherwise the cylinder bore size is excessive for the adhesive weight at working pressure and size of the boiler etc.

just my personal observations on a small 0-4-0T loco in 5"g

cheers,

julian

Edited By julian atkins on 10/01/2014 23:16:27

Edited By julian atkins on 10/01/2014 23:16:52

Julian and others. My posts re Emma do not signify any criticism on my part of the engine or series. I suspect they are due mainly to my inexperience. I am sure a lot of these queries would be sorted in a trice, merely by past experience of building locos and ME in general, by Julian and other experienced model engineers.

I have been in engineering for over 50 years so have a pragmatic view of these things, any long running series is bound to have a few errors creep in.

I am getting there however, each step is another step up the learning curve.

Still having said that, as regards to the actual engine design, the proof of the pudding………….

Bill D.