The Home Machinist!

Or, purchase some LGB rolling stock (which is pretty much 1:22.5 scale) and measure up from them.

Nope, not at all. At least not that I know of. However, each of us has our own tendencies and I think some of my wife's hobbies are crazy. And I am sure she thinks some of mine are too. At least we agree on trains.

There was a guy in Delaware with a railroad (http://www.islandpondrailroad.com/) that described some experiments he had done with this. I think he had a working engine. A quick search of his website didn't show it, but it might be buried in one of his links. You could reach out to him.

You might want to look up or search for "Bill Connor Beam Engines". They didn't look exactly like that but might be good starting points.

Looks great. And it is mighty convenient you didn't have to stick vinyl over any rivet heads. The big empty areas for lettering on the sides of the tender are very useful in that regard.

When building the passenger car trucks for the "shorties" and Honest Dave's Central Pacific passenger cars, realized I wanted (needed) a tool for tightening square nuts. Flat end pliers had a bad habit of slipping off the stainless steel square-sided nuts. My locomotive frame has a lot of square nu...

I saw her at least once at ALS I think.

That is one good looking locomotive! Nice job.

This is a fascinating thread. I can't wait to see more! Thanks for taking the time to create such a detailed log of your progress.

That does help, and I might try and track down that book. I have heard of it before. Everyone here must paint steam locomotives, and it isn't rocket science, but I had trouble just painting my engine's frame recently. And that is matte black!

What did you use for paint for your engine? Your frame looks perfectly finished in red. How did you paint and then assemble it all without scratching it all up?

Long live Welsh narrow gauge trains running on 7.25" gauge track! That looks like a really lovely engine. You should be proud. Perhaps someday my Sweet William will steam up next to your Hunslet.