DEVON Bertie with new chuffer

My Roundhouse Bertie, converted to radio control and fitted with a cab tender some time ago - now with a Summerlands chuffer.

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• railways

[DebenValleyLightRail]

That sounds jolly good and the tender looks great aswell. The chuff sounds rather two toned, how has that been achieved??

[woodybay7]

well spotted! It's because it was already fiited with a chuff pipe, which was a redundant whistle. It was fed from one of the two exhaust pipes that were up the chimney, replumbed to feed the 'whislte' slung under the loco. The Summerlands Chuffer is an adapted standard fitting made up for me by Chris ,to suit the remaining pipe in the chimney. It sounds much better than the old whistle fitting but the two do combine to give that off beat effect

[ColumbineMHLR]

WOW, that sounds like the real thing nearly, especially with the R/C unlike my Bertie. I love the tender on it, I know its R/C now but did it used to have an old telephone mechanism in the tender to slow it (I read it in one of Tag's books). Marvellous railway as well!

[woodybay7]

I ended up with two telephone mechanism brakes, one under an open truck with a coal load, the other in a small luggage van. It ran with a tender but there was no mechanism in it. Both were fine but the radio control is far better, built a new cab tender to hold the batteries and the receiver. Gets used far more these days than when it was manual, when it still had the tendancy to come to a halt on the sharper curves.

[invicta284]

that bertie looks great, much improved with the half cab tender.

Your garden line is charming and so well planted out A++

[Summerlandsteam]

Wow indeed Phil - a great chuff - but more important, a great film on a beautiful railway! Stunning!

Cheers

Chris