The Home Machinist!

http://modelsteamrailways.webs.com/ has castings, laser cut plate parts and plans for the Sweet William here in the U.S. His prices seem quite reasonable. From what I've seen and read on that page, he has plans and parts for an 0-4-0, with tank or tender, an 0-4-2 and is working on a 6 drivered vers...

I found this today....Also, take a look at: http://www.sci.fi/~animato/3003/index060.html and look for Fabricating cylinders, part I, II and III (the rest of the site is interesting reading too!) Jan-Eric has an interesting approach to things. Very helpful if you are fabbing cylinders, the series se...

Jan Eirc Nystrom has some photos on his website on how he built his slide valve cylinders http://www.saunalahti.fi/~animato/3003/3003x.html but alas no dimensions.

WOW!.......And with minimal equipment too!

Well...the reason you haven't seen plans for making a set of weld-frabricated cylinders as they're generally one-off parts for one-of-a-kind locomotives that won't work on any other engine. So the builders tend not to make detailed plans. Even if they are for a one-off project, they would be a usefu...

I have been all over the web looking for plans and or instructions for building fabricated locomotive cylinders. I have found plenty of photos and some descriptions but no "real" plans with dimensions per-se. All that I have found pertains to piston valve, can slide valve cylinders be fabr...

Current state of the project

Oops, forgot to add before I'm off to work, the couplers are the RMI couplers, NICE, they even have the word "sharon" cast on the side just like the real ones.

My little boxcab is powered by a 5 horse Honda through an Eaton model 7 hydrostatic transmission. It seem fairly strong because it was able to push an empty 50 gallon water heater (read future tank car) skidding on the track, up a 4% grade. As to wheel gauging, I used the Fred Keisel drawing Jim pos...

Hello group, my name is Steve and I have been interested in trains all my life. I first discovered riding trains in my teen years at the Colorado live steamers when they were located southwest of Denver in Waterton during the mid 1980's. There I met many encouraging and inspiring individuals includi...