The Home Machinist!

I double checked that it is Utah soft coal. I will try it and see what happens, the pacific will eat almost anything you put in it LoL. Like I said the price was higher the Penn coal but the shipping is about half. If it works well I may get local guys together and by a skid of it that should lower ...

I just bought 2 50lb bags of nut home heating coal from lazzari. They were 17.25 a bag plus 23 shipping to vegas. That is a little more then penn coal per bag but the shipping was much less. I will let everyone know how it burns. May be a good option for those of us on the west coast.

Bill

May I ask where you got the trucks? I am going to be needing a few soon and there are a lot out there.

Well after two successful trips down to Maricopa Live Steamers down in Phoenix Jesse and I decided that we would tackle the damaged flange on the lead fireman’s driver. After finding that removing the driver from the pedestals was not all that easy in the first place we then found that all 6 drivers...

Thank you for the welcome. I always seem to get the fixer-uppers here is a video of my other steamer, a Winton Mogul built by the late Harry Dixon. I was never run until about 6 months ago, despite being built almost 30 years ago. Postwarbob should remember this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u...

Hello everyone, As the current owner of the "jolly green giant" I assure you all that she we me maintained much better then she was in the past. I bought the locomotive from the estate of a very close friend of mine after he passed away. He only had her for about 3 years and had started to...