The Home Machinist!

Was not aware of that! What do you think the percentage is who don't complete one? I know that in the automotive world that only 1/4 of the people who take their car apart for a frame off restoration will actually get it back together and running again. Is it similar to that? Hard to say. One in fi...

Look at that, this one is dirt cheap, also saw virginia 4-4-0 plans that are cheap. Trying to understand why some plans are expensive and some cheap. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Raritan-by-Bill-Morewood-Model-Locomotive-instructions-book-on-CD-ROM/312442643979?_trkparms=aid%3D1110012%26algo%3DSPLICE.S...

You're not just paying for the paper when you pay for drawings. you're paying for a copyrighted work that, as Rich Carlstedt points out, took hundreds of hours to develop and perfect, and you're paying for a small business owner's costs, overhead and profit, like any other product that is made of ra...

Not to change subjects, but what is the paint color on the jacket on that 2-6-6 Eureka in your pictures? I need to get some of that for a project I'm in the middle of. It may be stovepipe blue. It's hard to fake Russian iron these days, but a lot of modelers used blued stovepipe as jacketing to imi...

I can actually access the site right now. Is it still down for some folks? The domain is registered at DirectNic and the name servers are set to servers designed to handle expired domains, so it does appear to be expired. I may be looking at a cached version of the site. Daris Nevil appears to be a ...

Here is the video I did about the Shays, as part of bonus footage about Ron & Peter's railroad. This was shot at Bitter Creek.

YouTube no longer supports clickable links in its videos so you'll have to ignore the 'menu options' before and after the video.

Here's some pictures of the Ulin Mason Bogie. This one was built by a gentleman in Utah. It is currently being overhauled.

Here are some pictures of me on the Ulin-designed beam engine built by John Dolph and Peter Moseley. This one is a bit different from his original design which had an on-board water tank.

And here are interior photos. It has to be seen to be believed.

Here are some pictures of the exterior of the coach car Ulin built for Ron Schmidt.

Here's a selection of Ulin K-27 photos, that's me running it in the second image. I had sent a set of photos to Kozo for inspiration while he was designing his.

here's some photos from the Shay visits at Bitter Creek. He is double heading with Brian Ratliff running Bill's Shay in front. in the group photo is Bill Boller, a young Jeff Tolan and unidentified person in the foreground (may by Paul Lavacot.) The last photo is a night shoot I did with the two sha...