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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Norfolk Western Y6B live steam First Run
- Replies: 2
- Views: 291
Re: Norfolk Western Y6B live steam First Run
yeah.... That's just plain ol' gorgeous. Congrats to whomever built it. absolutely beautiful. I wonder is it an actual compound or are the front two cylinders simple, but made to look bigger. I've heard some people say that the compounding works if you do it right, even in this scale, and I've heard...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: Riding car trucks
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5883
Re: Riding car trucks
That's not a bad looking truck sideframe either. What bearings did you use? I assume a radial ball bearing.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Reducing union tees
- Replies: 12
- Views: 582
Re: Reducing union tees
And all that little stuff can take up a lot of time, and/or can cost a lot of money. Obviously this is something you needed that is not commercially available, so you have no choice but to make it yourself. It looks nice, good job on that. I was figuring it up the other night... By the time you buy ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Found on Facebutt
- Replies: 1
- Views: 266
Re: Found on Facebutt
Looks like a Winton consolidation to me. Looks like it was built pretty well... but it also appears to have been sitting somewhere for a long time. It could have been in 'storage' since the 1980s, and that boiler may be junk. It will definitely need a lot of cleaning, inspecting, lubricating, painti...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: old photos
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3652
Re: old photos
So much of what once was... is now lost.
Love the pictures! Fascinating stuff.
Love the pictures! Fascinating stuff.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: steam channel
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2250
Re: steam channel
So, what I got from the video was: The hobby isn't dying, but there are fewer people who are building steam locomotives, or who have the skills necessary to do so. The majority of people entering the hobby now are building diesel and electric locomotives, and are much more likely to purchase kits or...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Simple, heavy duty, truck design for ballast cars
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1925
Re: Simple, heavy duty, truck design for ballast cars
Hey Greg: I really like your truck design for a simple truck. I would love to get a set of drawings for it. Specifically, what I'm thinking about doing is making a set like that with a 2" shorter center-to-center distance between the axles, to be used on a short caboose. Just thinking about tha...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Alternative position for axle pump Allen Mogul.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1100
Re: Alternative position for axle pump Allen Mogul.
Anthony: The axle pump on the Allen American is all the way over to the engineer's side, right up against the frame. Is yours in the same position? I guess I'm asking where is it located, and second question is how much does it really need to move to give you the clearance you need? Some pictures wo...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: old photos
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3652
Re: old photos
is that guy wearing ladies heels? Lillian "Curly" Lawrence was a strange fellow from all accounts, and also someone who would not tolerate any criticism of his work. He has been both praised and criticised by people that I have known over the years. Most of his stuff was very good, but no...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:40 am
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Seen this Locomotive on Ebay Today
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1449
Re: Seen this Locomotive on Ebay Today
If you look down the page, the Specifications section lists the gauge as 3.5". In the description it says: about 3.5" between the wheels. To me, that means that it is probably a 3 1/2" gauge locomotive, but you can't be completely sure of that. The person selling it likely doesn't kn...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Seen this Locomotive on Ebay Today
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1449
Re: Seen this Locomotive on Ebay Today
Can't even tell you what scale and gauge it is... How they expect to ever sell it? Only 1 picture, and it's from overhead and with the item still stuffed inside the box. Yeah, he's really not wanting to sell it. Like someone above posted, a lot of this is just junk someone has found at some estate s...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Seen this Locomotive on Ebay Today
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1449
Re: Seen this Locomotive on Ebay Today
Based on the tape measure held crudely across the wheels, It looks like 5" gauge to me, which would be 1" scale. It seems like most people selling this type of stuff don't have any idea what scale or gauge they actually have. Well, I guess they don't know what scale or gauge actually means...