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by JohnK
Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:13 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
Replies: 7
Views: 7284

Re: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings

Bump, with updated thread title. Castings in stock.

http://www.friendsmodels.com/stationary ... tical.html

Thank you.

-John
-Friends Models-
by JohnK
Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:01 pm
Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
Topic: H.J. Coventry 1/3 Horsepower, Compound Marine Engine castings
Replies: 0
Views: 49554

H.J. Coventry 1/3 Horsepower, Compound Marine Engine castings

Group,

Castings for the H.J. Coventry 1/3 horsepower, Compound Marine Engine, are now available.

For information or to purchase, please click see http://www.friendsmodels.com/stationary ... arine.html

Thank you,
-John
-Friends Models-
by JohnK
Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:26 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Coupler drawings
Replies: 2
Views: 2535

Re: Coupler drawings

The couplers are Yankee Shop, designed by Lester Friend about 1949.
by JohnK
Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:26 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Power Model Supply Duplex Steam Pump Drawings
Replies: 9
Views: 7061

Re: Power Model Supply Duplex Steam Pump Drawings

1" scale VanBrocklin (Power Model Supply) duplex patterns and original drawings are at FRIENDS MODELS. Drawings and castings, materials, available.

FRIENDS also has the 1" scale duplex VB pump with the outside levers, that was formerly sold by Allen Models.

www.friendsmodels.com
by JohnK
Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:16 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
Replies: 7
Views: 7284

Re: Friends Models product update

"It was also featured in an article in Live Steam magazine in 2000." Nov-Dec 2000, page 49 "Building the 'Little Kathy' Engine" by Ed Warren. John Thanks, John! The castings as available from FRIENDS include a copy of the original 1920s blueprints, an updated set of CAD blueprin...
by JohnK
Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:39 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: 1945 footage of New England Live Steamers in Color
Replies: 21
Views: 12699

Re: 1945 footage of New England Live Steamers in Color

On the Maine two-footer at the end, when the engine's coming toward you, I believe that's Charles Clegg at the left and Lucius Beebe at right.
by JohnK
Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:28 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
Replies: 7
Views: 7284

Re: Friends Models product update

SteveM wrote: Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:00 am Nice!

Steve
Well, thank you Steve....I agree!
by JohnK
Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:44 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings
Replies: 7
Views: 7284

H.J. Coventry "Little Kathy" Vertical Engine castings

Group, Friends Models in Beverly, MA has just acquired from Tiny Power, the design and patterns for the 1920s-era H.J. Coventry vertical stationary engine that was known at Tiny Power as "Little Kathy". The engine was featured in an article by Mr. Coventry in The Modelmaker magazine in 192...
by JohnK
Thu Dec 19, 2019 4:51 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: NELS Track At The Box Factory
Replies: 38
Views: 25290

Re: NELS Track At The Box Factory

I very much liked Jim Leggett's conclusion that the track "was a victim of its own success". Further to that, I just got off the phone with someone who was a visitor to NELS/Danvers many times when he was a kid (1940s), who knew Lester and Joe Friend, and, who was one of Lester's "tra...
by JohnK
Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:27 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: NELS Track At The Box Factory
Replies: 38
Views: 25290

Re: NELS Track At The Box Factory

Jack, thanks.... This stuff was saved thanks to prior Friends Models owner Dick Boucher. He got the WLS stuff when WLS vacated its former site in 1996, and, he took Charlie's track back in 2008 ish. Without Dick B. much of this stuff would likely be gone, or would certainly have taken different path...
by JohnK
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:54 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: NELS Track At The Box Factory
Replies: 38
Views: 25290

Re: NELS Track At The Box Factory

Yes Don, it's a WLS engine house. It will receive a much-needed rebuilding and be incorporated into the layout. 1005191801.jpg Here are some of Charlie's track sections, and a genuine Waushakum engine shed from the old WLS tracksite, at New Hampshire. The concrete footings that Charlie's track piece...
by JohnK
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:43 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: NELS Track At The Box Factory
Replies: 38
Views: 25290

Re: NELS Track At The Box Factory

Jack, our track is 95' back and forth and will remain where it is for now. Charlie's track is a 275' loop and is in New Hampshire now. When the kids are grown and we sell our house, the 95 ft. track will be moved to whatever property we move to. It may be incorporated into a larger loop, or it may s...