My grandfather started making one of these from scratch...the boiler and parts are on my garage shelf! I'd love to finish his project! I've never seen his dream come alive like this it's incredible! I'll post back when finished
You came up as suggested video. As I'm infatuated with steam and steam powered models l just had to watch your wonderful video. And I subscribed. What a beautiful piece of machinery you have. GOD bless you and your hands and heart!
Hi Jonathan My uncle Mike fairburn....... actually built RUSSELL When the Welsh Highland acquired here , she was in a real bad way my uncle spent years on that engine I have cleaned her stood on the foot plate and....released the brakes ..... What a beautiful model you gave made Respect
@@GandyDancerProductions Its incredible craftsmanship that Bang in in detail ......" RUSSELL" is a girl !!!!!!! Im only joking ... Its a shame what happened at the welsh highland .....i got a pic of my uncle stood on Russels boiler ...steam trials ...b4 paint
@@matthewc.419 The Welsh Highland story is certainly a strange one from it's creation to its' revival. It's a pity there was such animosity between it and the Ffestiniog. I don't know if there still is.
Amazing, beautiful thanks this helps me with my faith in humanity. Russell is Fantastic and astounding micro engineering. Having some idea of the problems with both going up and down scale in mechanics my hat goes off to you in this labour of love.
Hello from a new subscriber, just found your channel, fascinating. The pure luxury of having a vacuum cleaner to empty the smoke box, which I found to be the dirtiest job when prepping & disposing steam locos on the shed. I had long hair, onto my shoulders but after a week on nights prepping & disposing six locos a night I had it all cut off, mainly due shovelling still hot embers out of the smoke box when the wind was blowing. Thank's for bringing back some great memories.
Wonderful video! I really enjoyed hearing you explain how you prep for running and the post run maintenance. The experiment with the 5in car will be neat to see. Those little engines can pull as long as they have the weight for traction. Folks with heavy brass coaches and rolling stock end up pulling what would be an average weight human regularly.
I haven't seen any of his videos for a long time or uploaded anything in over 2 years and I'm glad to see he's still operating his steam engines and I'm glad he moved to the new home and I'm hoping he can start building his railroad again.
Yo, this is great! Just looking at that beautiful brass engine made my day! Also, about 5 minutes in, I suddenly thought of Thomas and the Magic Railroad. To any other Thomas fans in the comments, can't you just imagine Mr. Conductor driving that little engine? Beautiful work, you absolutely have my sub for this!
@@GandyDancerProductions thank you for making these beautiful engines! I'm currently binging the older videos of your Russell's construction, and enjoying it immensely. I hope that I can do this sort of thing one day, although as a collage student I have neither the money nor the workshop space for this sort of project.
@@bow-tiedengineer4453 I was like you once. Couldn't afford a ready make loco so I scraped together some money and bought a lathe, a drill and a propane torch and learnt by talking to people and reading Model Engineer.
@@GandyDancerProductions one of these days I need to bite the bullet and try something. My buddy has a cheap lathe, although neither of us have much experience with it. I think that's the biggest thing holding me back, the lack of skill, especially with the torch. My buddy isn't as into trains as I am, he's more of a general all interests handyman, but maybe I could talk him into helping me try something simple this summer. Any suggestions for an easy first engine, something that has more motion and stuff than the basic one cylinder demo steam engines, but not as complex as this? I don't want to go strait into an accurate model, but I want something that will require the same sorts of skills to try my hand at.
@@bow-tiedengineer4453 You should take a look at the Roundhouse Engineering site they build engines, have loads of information and lots of spares and kits to build your own. The site will give you a good look at what's inside an engine and the people there are enormously helpful. You can buy some bits and build the rest yourself however far your pocket will stretch to. Also join the Association of 16mm narrow gauge modellers they have lots of helpful stuff plus if you live in the UK contacts for modellers close to you.
sensational, I love the live steam model train, here in Brazil only 1 person in the whole country that makes functional steam locomotives similar to this model of yours, very interesting congratulations
I look forward to your experiment. There is an excerpt in an old Model Engineer mag from the 70s or 80s of a Japanese fellow being pulled by a gauge one coal fired 0-4-0. He made a riding car to go on 45mm gauge track. Apparently it went well. All the best. It will be great to see all the same. It is great how you go to effort in your videos to cover all aspects. Keep up the excellent work.
I have gone from knowing the loco. From a 009 gauge brass kit, in the middle of a 5” gauge version. Blackgates drawings in 3 1/2 scaled up to 5. The story so far has been most informative. Happy steaming.
Hi Kris, I have those Blackgate drawings too and contemplate building Russell in 5" gauge version but after i remember how long it took me to build my Simplex and how heavy it would be I decided against it.
If I may offer a "cheating" solution. Make a train of conjoined air tanks disguised as oil or water tanks that can be filled with an air compressor for quick and easy long term running. (or even just a bottle hidden in a tender for increased steam capacity) Still, as a lover of steam tech, this was astonishing to watch. You are awesome.
Excellent to see another post so soon :) I like your editing style, it keeps me engaged and I can easily watch the whole thing without getting distracted.
Regarding having Russell pull you around the 5" track, my idle speculation is that it might have the power, but not likely the traction. Having said that I am looking forward to seeing what happens!
Nice job on this ! I moved a old gandy dancer shanty with my dad years ago, it belonged to the Central Railroad of New Jersey and cost us $50.00 to buy it.
That Train was sooooo AWESOME!!!!! Thank you sooo much for the video!!! Seems this year me and my wife has gone over the deep end with trans! I hate learning the hard way when it cost me $ Lol God bless you and yours!!!!! 😇😷😇
To fix the Char in the smokebox issue; Why not use some metal mesh over the tubes in the firebox, so that it prevents char entering the tubes and firebox?
Hi, unfortunately it probably wouldn't work. It would either clog up quickly in the firebox and cause air flow restrictions or just burn through and create a mess. Best that all the char ends up in the big smokebox.
Super cool and masterfully constructed... clearly u know your business sir, ever try grinding the coal down to a slightly smaller size? Perhaps be easier to feed the fire and burn a bit better at start up? Just a thought. Great video, fantastic scale steam locomotive..!
That little steamer is so cool! Why didn’t y’all use a little propane bottle, you just turn on the gas, light the gas & you’ll be good as long as you have plenty of water. Can you try an engine that has chiding smoke. Can you try using diesel fuel in the engine? Run on gas or charcoal lighter Fluid to start with to get hot, then once it’s hot switch to a little bottle of diesel fuel.
Question! I noticed you brazed the boiler parts together! I was always told that is super dangerous on these? When we repaired my grandfathers. We tig welded everything to avoid braze failure. It is a wonderful Job! Very nice to see it working so well! Why not use a 2.4ghz Rx &tx? With a LiFe battery? Could fit both in the same area as that old 900mhz rx your using. don't think I'm bashing it in anyway! just wondering if there was a reason why! I have one sitting here My grandfather made years ago. I been slowly fixing all the hand made parts with new ones to get it going again. Coal over the years really chewed up the metal over the years inside
Hi Rich, I'm not brazing the boiler i'm using silver solder. Lower temperature and alot more expensive because of the silver content. Brazing fine too but no need to get up to those temperatures. I'm talking about a boiler made out of copper not steel which you'd have to weld. The RC system is 2.4ghz i'm using.
Hi there it's good to see you back and that all is well. Im sure it was a little sad having to pull up your railroad. I just resentle finished my 7-1/2" Gage railroad I have about 1200 feet of track and it would be a sad day for me if I had to take it all up. And are you going to build a nother railroad at your new home?
I'm not a train enthusiast, but I'm amazed at the workmanship and attention to detail, very well done!
This is the most satisfying video that I have seen this year so far, a bloody amazing job, Gandy!
Well the year just started hahah
I've been getting recommended this video for awhile now, and I'm really glad I checked it out! Thank you for sharing this with us.
This little bugger moves way faster than I would have expected! Incredible engine you've made.
Russell is actually made by Roundhouse and this is a coal conversion.
Nice little engine what gauge would that be.
The bugger moves faster than me!
@@keefbrown This one is not a Roundhouse actually. I made it from scratch and you can see that in my earlier videos.
Yup this is just really cool.
Really satisfying video to watch 👍
My grandfather started making one of these from scratch...the boiler and parts are on my garage shelf! I'd love to finish his project! I've never seen his dream come alive like this it's incredible! I'll post back when finished
"I will finish what you have started" vibe going on, would love to see ur finish product. Lots of luck to you.
The close-up shots of Russel certainly do your workmanship justice. Nice film, great channel, nice to see you again!
I enjoy how professionally made this video is and how much you enjoy your hobby. the train looks amazing.
You came up as suggested video. As I'm infatuated with steam and steam powered models l just had to watch your wonderful video. And I subscribed. What a beautiful piece of machinery you have. GOD bless you and your hands and heart!
Enjoyed the Russell build. Lovely to see it going so well. Loved the long shot down the straight, showing the track undulations.
Hi Jonathan
My uncle Mike fairburn....... actually built RUSSELL When the Welsh Highland acquired here , she was in a real bad way my uncle spent years on that engine
I have cleaned her stood on the foot plate and....released the brakes .....
What a beautiful model you gave made
Respect
Thanks Mathew, it's my favourite narrow gauge engine and I had to make an accurate looking model of him.
@@GandyDancerProductions
Its incredible craftsmanship that
Bang in in detail ......" RUSSELL" is a girl !!!!!!! Im only joking ...
Its a shame what happened at the welsh highland .....i got a pic of my uncle stood on Russels boiler ...steam trials ...b4 paint
@@matthewc.419 The Welsh Highland story is certainly a strange one from it's creation to its' revival. It's a pity there was such animosity between it and the Ffestiniog. I don't know if there still is.
Greeting from Taiwan.
Thanks for good video.
Good to hear from Taiwan, thanks Frank.
Amazing, beautiful thanks this helps me with my faith in humanity. Russell is Fantastic and astounding micro engineering. Having some idea of the problems with both going up and down scale in mechanics my hat goes off to you in this labour of love.
Thanks for your comment.
Hello from a new subscriber, just found your channel, fascinating. The pure luxury of having a vacuum cleaner to empty the smoke box, which I found to be the dirtiest job when prepping & disposing steam locos on the shed. I had long hair, onto my shoulders but after a week on nights prepping & disposing six locos a night I had it all cut off, mainly due shovelling still hot embers out of the smoke box when the wind was blowing. Thank's for bringing back some great memories.
Super camera work what a great film!
Wonderful video! I really enjoyed hearing you explain how you prep for running and the post run maintenance. The experiment with the 5in car will be neat to see. Those little engines can pull as long as they have the weight for traction. Folks with heavy brass coaches and rolling stock end up pulling what would be an average weight human regularly.
I’m a big fan of 16mm gauge and have a loco myself! I can’t wait to see more of Russel in the future! Happy new year!
It's 32 mm gauge
Wunderschöne Dampflokomotive - beautiful steam locomotive.....thumps up!
These camera angles when the locomotive is running on the track is priceless
yes , and in general an awesome camera handling!
Nice to see you posting videos again. Russell is looking very nice , running very well. Thanks for sharing the video.
Unbelievable! Thank you, I watched it with great pleasure!
I wonder if our children will appreciate things like this. Amazing engine. Good work Sir.
Russel : Do not do that with your engine in your home
Me : I do not have that engine in home
Beauty toy for old boy! Passion isn't discussing.
I’m so pleased that you’re starting back up again
This channel apparel in my suggested list and I have gone back and watched a lot of the older videos and look forward to more
I haven't seen any of his videos for a long time or uploaded anything in over 2 years and I'm glad to see he's still operating his steam engines and I'm glad he moved to the new home and I'm hoping he can start building his railroad again.
Yo, this is great!
Just looking at that beautiful brass engine made my day!
Also, about 5 minutes in, I suddenly thought of Thomas and the Magic Railroad. To any other Thomas fans in the comments, can't you just imagine Mr. Conductor driving that little engine?
Beautiful work, you absolutely have my sub for this!
Thanks for your support.
@@GandyDancerProductions thank you for making these beautiful engines! I'm currently binging the older videos of your Russell's construction, and enjoying it immensely. I hope that I can do this sort of thing one day, although as a collage student I have neither the money nor the workshop space for this sort of project.
@@bow-tiedengineer4453 I was like you once. Couldn't afford a ready make loco so I scraped together some money and bought a lathe, a drill and a propane torch and learnt by talking to people and reading Model Engineer.
@@GandyDancerProductions one of these days I need to bite the bullet and try something. My buddy has a cheap lathe, although neither of us have much experience with it. I think that's the biggest thing holding me back, the lack of skill, especially with the torch. My buddy isn't as into trains as I am, he's more of a general all interests handyman, but maybe I could talk him into helping me try something simple this summer. Any suggestions for an easy first engine, something that has more motion and stuff than the basic one cylinder demo steam engines, but not as complex as this? I don't want to go strait into an accurate model, but I want something that will require the same sorts of skills to try my hand at.
@@bow-tiedengineer4453 You should take a look at the Roundhouse Engineering site they build engines, have loads of information and lots of spares and kits to build your own. The site will give you a good look at what's inside an engine and the people there are enormously helpful. You can buy some bits and build the rest yourself however far your pocket will stretch to. Also join the Association of 16mm narrow gauge modellers they have lots of helpful stuff plus if you live in the UK contacts for modellers close to you.
sensational, I love the live steam model train, here in Brazil only 1 person in the whole country that makes functional steam locomotives similar to this model of yours, very interesting congratulations
Did I now enjoy this speedy steemer and your presentation is very entertaining...propper👍
I look forward to your experiment. There is an excerpt in an old Model Engineer mag from the 70s or 80s of a Japanese fellow being pulled by a gauge one coal fired 0-4-0. He made a riding car to go on 45mm gauge track. Apparently it went well. All the best. It will be great to see all the same. It is great how you go to effort in your videos to cover all aspects. Keep up the excellent work.
I didn't have any interesting about train scale model but, why it is so pleasant to look at it?
I have gone from knowing the loco. From a 009 gauge brass kit, in the middle of a 5” gauge version. Blackgates drawings in 3 1/2 scaled up to 5. The story so far has been most informative. Happy steaming.
Hi Kris, I have those Blackgate drawings too and contemplate building Russell in 5" gauge version but after i remember how long it took me to build my Simplex and how heavy it would be I decided against it.
I love the live steam toy trains. They are so cool. This one looks great!
Not a toy
This train is flippin glorious. Bravo. My youngest would go crazy since hes nuts about the Polar express
Wonderful comeback to youtube. I'm looking forward to the experiment with Russel hauling a passenger (perhaps!) All the best.
Great video, Bravo!
Greetings from Slovenia!
Nice and amazing work!
Потрясающе!!! Смотрел с открытым ртом))) Игрушки для серьёзных дядей)))
TH-cam: "Want to see a man fill his tiny train up with coal?"
Me: 😍
Why don't you say that to my face you RACIST! "Coal?" WTF does that mean? Do you hate the blacks that much???
great video, you have a nice calming voice that explains what you do/doing/done
WOW THAT' Locomotive it's beautiful. Such of perfect kraftmann Ship BRAVO BRAVO AMAZING
It's amazing how steam locomotives could be built that small!
The minute I saw you put Russell on the 5” track I knew what you were going to do as I would do the same haha 😆
This was quite an achievement! I love watching these. I will still use my n-gauge prototype locos from Bachmann though. I liked this.
Very cool and lots of work building that. Yes camera angles was cool like real train passing :)
Some people can build really good yes :) .
It's nice to see you back and I look forward to more videos. I'm building a 7 1/4" LMS 3F tank engine.
Good for you Ian. Not a task to be taken on lightly. Just slowly chip away at it and in the end you'll have so much fun running it.
train looks amazing.Absolutely amazing job, totally like it
you are great
What a lovely piece of machinery.
If I may offer a "cheating" solution. Make a train of conjoined air tanks disguised as oil or water tanks that can be filled with an air compressor for quick and easy long term running. (or even just a bottle hidden in a tender for increased steam capacity) Still, as a lover of steam tech, this was astonishing to watch. You are awesome.
Wow, Russel’s one impressive loco for one so small.
This hobby is so cool! I love it!
That is very impressive, I would like to see some of the empty coal cars filled with some weight to see how really strong the Loco. is
He is going to try pulling himself along, if you watch the end of the video.
Could you substitute Non-Organic clear honey? Or does it have to be Organic
Fantastic to see it in action again. Hope to see you soon, your tips on driving my Locomotive were invaluable
I'd like to see this run at night, with the fire lighting the cabin of the steam engine. That'll look cool!
That's is something I dreamed all my life to do ...
Me too
The funny thing is I was thinking about it the other day
I wish you would explain the effect of differing exhaust nozzle diameter and hight upon the fire.
This man know what he is doing. Wonderful
Nice to watch, nice to listen too. Thank you!
i love your passion sir, thankyou for sharing this. +respect
Amazing to see Rusell running once again!
So This is why they never let Freddie back on to Thomas and Friends...
Yes i remember that and i notice that duke and friede is no longer in the modern thomas and friends
Of course that's Fearless Freddie's basis.
@@CrystalClearWith8BEDing! ding! thats correct!
How did you acquire the east Tennessee and Western North Carolina railroad Rolling Stock?
Probably from his time in America
You seem like you’d be one cool grandpa, man! Nice video!
ohh nice Qashqai! My sister has the same color! Really sweet ride. i love the 360 camera view inside lol
This is so cool :)!!! Amazing work!
I'm not sure how I got here. But I am glad that I am here.
wow imagine this thing in 200 years with Patina on it ! absolute lovely, it deserves a museum !!!!
Dios! , lo veo y es para maravillarse , que ternura más grande de locomotora , es una preciosidad ,la amas de inmediato, gracias un hermoso vídeo .
I'm glad the youtube algorithm brought me to this amazing vid.
BIG HELP for the up coming generation for them to witness how it works and how it look like.
Happy new Year! I Realy enjoy your comeback that way!!!!
Excellent to see another post so soon :) I like your editing style, it keeps me engaged and I can easily watch the whole thing without getting distracted.
Absolutely amazing job, totally like it!!
What a beautiful steam locomotive :-)
Great little engine! Thank you. Liked and subbed!
Regarding having Russell pull you around the 5" track, my idle speculation is that it might have the power, but not likely the traction. Having said that I am looking forward to seeing what happens!
Wonderful Locomotive! I have to agree I would prefer no music, just the wonderful steam engine noises!
very impressive engine and video.
What a labor of love and passion
Oh it's amazing how everything is so "miniaturized" but working!!... Made to work i that small size! :-)
Nice job on this ! I moved a old gandy dancer shanty with my dad years ago, it belonged to the Central Railroad of New Jersey and cost us $50.00 to buy it.
Russel is a Golden and beautiful little engine
What I'm wondering is if there will be a tender for the locomotive
There will certainly be a coal truck behind the engine at some stage. I don't need extra water as the tanks have plenty.
I could hear the sound of the locomotive, but this music got in the way
its not his music
@@johnschool It doesn't matter who's music it is. It sucks.
@@arabcadabra8863 I made it 1:07 until the 'music' made me leave.
@@arabcadabra8863 agreed shitty free music
Действующая модель паровоза - это круто! Мальчишки никогда не взрослеют :-)
Hi Jonathan. My friend and traction engine crew Dom fires the full size Russell on the WHHR.
Wow, what a great little engine, you'd rightly be chuffed about it.
Get out. NOW.
That Train was sooooo AWESOME!!!!!
Thank you sooo much for the video!!!
Seems this year me and my wife has gone over the deep end with trans!
I hate learning the hard way when it cost me $
Lol God bless you and yours!!!!! 😇😷😇
To fix the Char in the smokebox issue;
Why not use some metal mesh over the tubes in the firebox, so that it prevents char entering the tubes and firebox?
Hi, unfortunately it probably wouldn't work. It would either clog up quickly in the firebox and cause air flow restrictions or just burn through and create a mess. Best that all the char ends up in the big smokebox.
You are incredible pat on the back...
What colour is Russel going to be or will he remain brass?
Hi, I will at some stage paint Russell the colours of the Welsh Highland Railway. Red with black and yellow lining.
Badass engine and badass music
Super cool and masterfully constructed... clearly u know your business sir, ever try grinding the coal down to a slightly smaller size? Perhaps be easier to feed the fire and burn a bit better at start up? Just a thought. Great video, fantastic scale steam locomotive..!
That little steamer is so cool! Why didn’t y’all use a little propane bottle, you just turn on the gas, light the gas & you’ll be good as long as you have plenty of water.
Can you try an engine that has chiding smoke.
Can you try using diesel fuel in the engine? Run on gas or charcoal lighter Fluid to start with to get hot, then once it’s hot switch to a little bottle of diesel fuel.
Question! I noticed you brazed the boiler parts together! I was always told that is super dangerous on these? When we repaired my grandfathers. We tig welded everything to avoid braze failure.
It is a wonderful Job! Very nice to see it working so well! Why not use a 2.4ghz Rx &tx? With a LiFe battery? Could fit both in the same area as that old 900mhz rx your using.
don't think I'm bashing it in anyway! just wondering if there was a reason why! I have one sitting here My grandfather made years ago. I been slowly fixing all the hand made parts with new ones to get it going again. Coal over the years really chewed up the metal over the years inside
Hi Rich, I'm not brazing the boiler i'm using silver solder. Lower temperature and alot more expensive because of the silver content. Brazing fine too but no need to get up to those temperatures. I'm talking about a boiler made out of copper not steel which you'd have to weld. The RC system is 2.4ghz i'm using.
Organic clear honey, 340g. Now we know the favourite breakfast food :-)
Hi there it's good to see you back and that all is well. Im sure it was a little sad having to pull up your railroad. I just resentle finished my 7-1/2" Gage railroad I have about 1200 feet of track and it would be a sad day for me if I had to take it all up. And are you going to build a nother railroad at your new home?
its not steam that turns the drive wheel. its the battery
@14:51
It's steam I assure you. The battery is to power the radio control servos.
Interesting discovery in the end!