{"id":59,"date":"2006-03-03T18:21:53","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T17:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:01:26","slug":"lhr-engine-no-1-konrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/lhr-engine-no-1-konrad\/","title":{"rendered":"LHR Engine &#8220;Konrad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060312IMG_1451-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060312IMG_1451-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060312IMG_1451-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060312IMG_1451-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060312IMG_1451-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060312IMG_1451-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My Regner Konrad on the Lost Hollow Railway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first engine for my garden empire is a <a href=\"https:\/\/thetraindepartment.com\/collections\/regner-locomotives\">Regner Konrad<\/a>. It is a very simple engine that uses a single oscillating steam cylinder to drive the wheels through a gear system. Reviews for the engine have been very positive and I bit the bullet and purchased one. Right out of the box, the Konrad was a bit too colourful for me and I set out to kitbash into a small turn-of-the-century logging locomotive. Here&#8217;s a list of things I changed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Installed new wooden bumpers at both the front and rear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Installed link and pins couplers back and front.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Repainted the underframe and cab from their red and green colours respectively to black.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added a new more-to-scale engineer figure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Konrad has been a delight to operate. I get about 15 minutes of running from a boiler full of water and a full fuel tank. Because of the gear system, the engine is quite powerful and moves a pretty consistent speed on level track. It handles the light grades on the LHR well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I highly recommend anyone interested in live steam to take a good look at these Regner engines as their entry point into the hobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first engine for my garden empire is a Regner Konrad. It is a very simple engine that uses a single oscillating steam cylinder to drive the wheels through a gear system. Reviews for the<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/lhr-engine-no-1-konrad\/\">&hellip;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-losthollow","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}