Self powered 00 vehicle (ie not track powered)

Faller make road vehicles which steer following under-surface guide wires, which are battery powered. They're a bit over-sized but several people have used the mechanisms in O-scale cars and vans.

There was an article in MRJ some time back AFAIR.

Is this what you meant?

Phil: Also in HO are a range of radio controlled articulated lorries which sell for less than 10ukp each - and surely one could ignore the radio control side to make the steering work in a similar way to Faller, or even a crude slot?

Oops, no, sorry for not being clear, I mean rail vehicles, either locos or rolling stock

"Mike Laine" wrote

All I can think of is the clockwork range of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' from Hornby. Even there the current range is not conventional rail-based, but the previous range (discontinued a couple of years ago) was.

John.

Well there's live steam if you're in the financial services business. Or photocells on the carriage roofs if your in the garden. But pushing along by hand is a grossly neglected pleasure which seems to have more practitioners than I'd imagined until the topic cropped up on a yahoo site recently.

Ken.

Some starter stuff is battery powered but it's very crude.

The Radio control folk might have converted some regular stuff. Should be easy. If there's no room in the engine put the battery and receiver in the tender.

In message , Mike Laine writes

There appear to be some kits for OO gauge live steam here, a couple of locos (B4K and Y6K) plus one that's just plain weird (SK4):

Does anyone have any experience of these, unfortunately the site doesn't give much info on how they work?

"Ken Parkes" wrote

If you're thinking of the Hornby 'live steam' then they get the power to boil the water from the track.

John.

Not necessarily. Maybe 20 years ago a company was making and selling butane (AFAIR) fired live steam in OO. I saw a Flying Scotsman at a show in the 1980s.

I wouldn't run one alongside my regular stuff, but I thought it was rather neat - I don't want wet steam on scenery or nicely painted models.

Christopher A. Lee offered me a plate of cheese and whispered:

Why not? It's prototypical weathering! ;-)

Wrinkled cardboard?