The Home Machinist!

Looking Great Doug!!!!!. We moved up to WA last year and love it. Much better than the Vegas heat. Keep up the great work my friend!!!

Charlie, my American weighs in at 150 LBS. When finished, I expect around 155 lbs ish. I do not have the stock built up frame. The water jet frames are heavier, boiler is heavier, cab floor if heavy, smokebox, (mine is fabricated, the new castings are in cast iron, NOT aluminum) domes etc. I increas...

Jeff Tolan, The steam was welded on towards the end. Since this boiler was built, we developed/brought back an old/new throttle design we will be using. It was originally in the Baldwin Mogul. I believe we can make it work in the American as well. See photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIMGT7RfER8&t=6s

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The boilers we build for the American are all steel. They have 31 - .375" OD seemless tubes. All TIG welded together. The Boiler is 5.5625" OD throughout. There are two flue configuration options, the .375" OD flue (31) or .500" flue (20). We ran our American for 5 hours straight pulling 5-6 Adults....

We are currently working on new patterns, design changes and more for the small scale line. It is going to come back.

We have the drawing for the original version (cast aluminum) that has some basic dimensions on it. If interested, email me.

We sell the 1860s boxcar RTR for $1200.00

We will be offering a 2.5" scale version in the very near future. I have attached some photos and video of the prototype working the bugs out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGths6wONbQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ3NfMcj48s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGths6wONbQ

I have drawings for the super heater. Pretty slick.

We use .250" water lines feeding the pumps. Each pump has a dedicated line. They are NOT Tee'd together as per original design. The rams were increased to .250" from .1875". Each pump discharges directly into boiler with .250" line. They are NOT Tee'd as per original design. The new surge chamber lo...

ADK ready to run minus paint. They are set up for link and pin coupling. You could put a coupler pocket on it and install couplers.