The Home Machinist!

This came to me by way of PRR406 email/ Third time's the charm! The Waterville City Council voted to sell Maine Central 470 to New England Steam Corporation this evening. I hesitate to say, "the good guys won", but this is the best chance to old locomotive has had in 60 years. We will be signing a c...

Hi, I am not a representative of them. Nor have they asked me to help. Yet I would like to get the word out about a locomotive we would like to see restored. Ok, I will confess, Maine needs to have a full size locomotive. The organization has 47 days left on its fundraising (according to the link). ...

Anyone know of castings available from Andy Ross?

Wow! $20 for a Model T Coil is cheap!

Back in the 1980's when I was doing my Model T, coils were $50 apiece!

If you do go pound on his door. Be polite and offer to help him, he is usually backlogged with work.

I think I ran a drill press for him making stainless grates. Or at least it was repetitive drilling in stainless steel.

You could always drive by his house and pound on his door....

Grin, I will sell my AR Drone if any one wants for $200

I took the 0-4-4t to Adirondack Live Steamers. When I came home I had some nifty bruises that my shoulders tagged.

I used black on the steam pump that I used to own. Had a better seal than the paper one.

The downside I should point out to a Forney? The point of pivot when you go through a turn is you last drive axle. What was found out on the narrow gauge forney I had was that the back of the locomotive would reach out and hit bridge abutments. 40' curve. This was the reason that I made the locomoti...

Jesse Livingstone wanted to create some turbulators for one of his locomotives. He showed pictures of a couple of messes he had and wondered if anyone had any ideas as to how he could make some in copper. I suggested that he put one end into a 4 jaw chuck and the other end in the tool holder on the ...

2" will pull a person on a riding cart behind the traction engine.