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by Pontiacguy1
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...
by Pontiacguy1
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.
by Pontiacguy1
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 ...
by Pontiacguy1
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...
by Pontiacguy1
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.
by Pontiacguy1
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...
by Pontiacguy1
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...
by Pontiacguy1
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...
by Pontiacguy1
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...
by Pontiacguy1
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...
by Pontiacguy1
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...
by Pontiacguy1
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...