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by JKreider
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:13 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Ed Woodings
Replies: 11
Views: 4200

Re: Ed Woodings

Ed honored me with an invitation to his home in the mid-90's to see the progress on his T1. The visit lasted a lot longer than we had intended. What a craftsman!
Jim Kreider
by JKreider
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:59 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: 84” Baldwin disk drivers from ATSF 4-8-4
Replies: 1
Views: 309

Re: 84” Baldwin disk drivers from ATSF 4-8-4

I made the patterns and sold castings from them. The patterns now reside with Frank Foti and Marcel Uhrich of the Live Steam Alliance.
Look up livesteamalliance.com or email Frank at frank@livesteamalliance.com.
Jim Kreider
by JKreider
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:07 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Mystery lost wax castings
Replies: 1
Views: 257

Re: Mystery lost wax castings

These are dummy "Viloco" sander traps and valves which are mounted on the side of the sandbox on a Nickel Plate Berkshire.
These look like "soft" copies of castings which I offered.
Jim Kreider
by JKreider
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:20 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: old photos
Replies: 41
Views: 3650

Re: old photos

The 2nd photo in the first post is the Sonoma Train Town Hudson with Bill Purdie, left, and Ed Yungling. Bill Purdie had just retired from the Southern RR as their master mechanic - steam. Bill, and his wife, Sara, were in southern California visiting me and I invited Ed down to meet Bill, whereupon...
by JKreider
Fri Oct 06, 2023 11:22 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: How to get started?
Replies: 49
Views: 10512

Re: How to get started?

I couldn’t have said it better Bruce. I remember when I put the first Berkshire chassis together. I was standing in the shop, looking at a pile of parts and all of a sudden it hit me – I have enough parts to put something together. I had worked on these parts for a long time. By the end of the day I...
by JKreider
Thu Oct 05, 2023 5:29 pm
Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
Topic: Front mounted bell, inchandahalf.
Replies: 6
Views: 3302

Re: Front mounted bell, inchandahalf.

Bob:
The tooling for the Berkshire is now owned by the Live Steam Alliance.
Please contact Frank Foti at frank@livesteamalliance.com.
Jim Kreider
by JKreider
Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:11 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Look Familiar Jack B
Replies: 2
Views: 750

Re: Look Familiar Jack B

A little history on this locomotive. The chassis was built by the late Bart Pond of Hillsboro, OR. Bart also did the major machine work on the tender including the trucks. Bart was a machinist second to none. The chassis ran like a Swiss watch. Precision in motion. Peter Nott of southern California ...
by JKreider
Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:53 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Bagley oil burner
Replies: 2
Views: 1353

Re: Bagley oil burner

Plans are underway to make the Bagley burner available again in the not-too-distant future.
Jim Kreider
by JKreider
Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:50 am
Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
Topic: 1-1/2" and 3/4" scale re railers
Replies: 7
Views: 1919

Re: 1-1/2" and 3/4" scale re railers

These rerailing frogs are exact models of those carried on the tenders of NKP Berkshires. These models were derived from scans of those on NKP 765.
These rerailing frogs were readily commercially available during the steam era so I'm sure they were used by many railroads.
Jim Kreider
by JKreider
Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:57 am
Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
Topic: NKP Berk prototype drawings FS
Replies: 5
Views: 1026

Re: NKP Berk prototype drawings FS

Don't do that!!
I'm sending you $75.00 via PayPal.
Jim Kreider
by JKreider
Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:11 am
Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
Topic: NKP Berk prototype drawings FS
Replies: 5
Views: 1026

Re: NKP Berk prototype drawings FS

Sandiapaul:
If you are on Facebook, may I also suggest that you post this in the "Berkshire Modelers" group.
Jim Kreider
by JKreider
Fri Apr 28, 2023 10:08 pm
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Question to Builders
Replies: 17
Views: 9413

Re: Question to Builders

On modern steam locomotives like the Berkshire, 2-1/4 x 2-1/4 x 1/4 tee was used for the running board edges, cab, headlight step edge, etc. This equates to 9/32 x 9/32 x 1/32 scale tee which was not commercially available so I used 5/16 x 5/16 x 1/32. This would I think be a well-used size to make....