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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Track Tamping Tools
- Replies: 8
- Views: 520
Re: Track Tamping Tools
The C&IG uses two tamping tools. First however, as mentioned above the base is adjusted, leveled and plate compacted, and relevelled as necessary, using a mirror. Track panels are laid and connected, aligned, then ballast is added. We have moved to 3/4” instead of 1/2” as it holds better, doesn’...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: steam channel
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2145
Re: steam channel
Mark Twain…
Lol
Lol
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: RGS Goose#7
- Replies: 4
- Views: 711
Re: RGS Goose#7
Hi Dave, Beautiful vehicles! Congratulations! The box bodies were removed to enable the Geese to be used in the final and sad ending to the RGS. Scrapping. I built a three truck Number 4, and tried unsuccessfully to create the original Pierce Arrow front fenders from fiberglass. A couple had them, a...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Lettering on engine
- Replies: 13
- Views: 957
Re: Lettering on engine
Milwaukee, 2015.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Little Engines
- Replies: 1
- Views: 923
Little Engines
According to their YouTube site Little Engines is closed and for sale.
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: Headlights for Diesels
- Replies: 7
- Views: 797
Re: Headlights for Diesels
Not sure where you are headed, but unless that loco is on a barge you might be in trouble!
Lol
Lol
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: Headlights for Diesels
- Replies: 7
- Views: 797
Re: Headlights for Diesels
Hi Greg, Nelson Reidel cut the business end off mag light flashlights and used them. Being a diesel you can use the plastic reflector with no danger of overheating like on a steam engine. He turned down the outside of the bezel so it would fit inside a 2” piece of exhaust pipe for the loco headlight...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 20 and 30lb horizontial propane tanks - good deal
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1046
Re: 20 and 30lb horizontial propane tanks - good deal
Just remember.
The vertical tanks are NOT designed to be operated in the horizontal position. There was an earlier thread on this.
The internal piping is different.
The vertical tanks are NOT designed to be operated in the horizontal position. There was an earlier thread on this.
The internal piping is different.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: How to plug leaks in smoke box?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 84000
Re: How to plug leaks in smoke box?
Hi Tom!
Hope ya’ll are staying warm!
Hope ya’ll are staying warm!
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Globe & Check Valves Now Available
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3166
Re: Globe & Check Valves Now Available
Santa Fe steam locos had pipe coils under wood foot boards. A valve was used to control steam flow through the piping.
Photos are around.
Photos are around.
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: 1.5/1.6 Scale Prime Washout Plugs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 766
Re: 1.5/1.6 Scale Prime Washout Plugs
Hi Tim,
Just be sure of the dimensions you are looking for. The 2-1/4” plug screws into a 3” fitting. That’s what them screws into the boiler. Or jacket in our case. The 2-7/8” screws into a 3-1/2” fitting.
Mike Venezia with The Backstop sells some, but they are a little larger.
Just be sure of the dimensions you are looking for. The 2-1/4” plug screws into a 3” fitting. That’s what them screws into the boiler. Or jacket in our case. The 2-7/8” screws into a 3-1/2” fitting.
Mike Venezia with The Backstop sells some, but they are a little larger.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Boiler insulation
- Replies: 21
- Views: 36904