The Home Machinist!

Awesome! Thanks.
RussN

Operating logging steamers in the Pacific NW gave me opportunities to try boiler backhead cooking. Cooking in the oil-fired firebox was not an option. I can happily report that a 4 pound salmon foil wrapped with lemon and onion slices takes about 20 miles at slogging Mallet speeds! And the crew behi...

Odyknuck wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:30 am Nice, so how far off the rail head is it?

I will measure it when I go into the shop this morning to light a heating fire.
RussN

Mikado pilot clearance - 0.68"
Ten Wheeler pilot clearance = 0.75"

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As long as they are gluten free...
RussN

Hmmm, maybe no cow catcher for me lol Just space it safely above railhead height. Here's are pictures of the pilot on my Mike, modeled from Baldwin delivery photos of Polson Logging #90, in 1926. There is actually more clearance than it appears because I placed a white card under the pilot for the ...

Many years ago my son and I visited Train Mountain before I had an operating steam locomotive. An early Triennial was happening then. While riding a Friends dismal train and happily touring the line, we headed south from the northern half and as we went under Chiloquim Way a visiting large Hudson st...

Well deserved, Marty.
RussN

Happily our steam machines are EXternal combustion!
'Will be interesting to explain that to some authority without knowledge...
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Some of the best external welding I've seen on a model boiler!
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Yes.
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The 110 ton 2-6-6-2 logging Mallets I was privileged to operate had a "soft talk", sounding more like a shuffle, even pulling 4-5 heavy weight coaches.
I miss doing that.
RussN