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Hey Guys,

great project RR Ty. I just agree Anthony, i bought all my drawings there for my J 611, fast delivery and good quality.

Chris

Hi Guys, hope you all steped well in 2022. During a lot of work on my new house, we needed to go in shop and doing some metal work. We conected the Commonwealth tender trucks castings. All the springs are bought or made also the Equalizing lever. Still some work to do.... IMG-20220107-WA0013.jpeg Al...

Hi guys, last weekend we had a nice meeting at our club track at Oberusel...near Frankfurt. During the meeting we put the N&W Sisters together on tracks. We were driving a doubelheader for 2 hours it was a lot of fun to push or to pull the other locomotive around the track. At the best photoligh...

Hey Guys, Waow, thank you!!! Wondering that Andy subscribed that fantastic german live Steam magazin. Cool to see. These guys doing a good job on this magazin, i like the english discriptions, not very typical!!! Looking forward to 5th Sep.,so we will driving together with the Y6 and the J for the f...

Hello Friends, Asteamhead thank you for your words. Last weekend we did the first roll out of 611 at our club track near Frankfurt. The J runs nice and smooth,it was a pleasure to ride it. Some impressions... IMG-20210606-WA0049.jpg IMG-20210606-WA0053.jpg IMG-20210606-WA0014.jpg IMG-20210606-WA0039...

Hey Guys, thanks for your words. No i will not fire it by a stoker. And...now is not the time to think about new project's...there is a lot of work to do, to finish 611 will take another year..mayby more. After 611 i will make my dream come true to restore my Dad's first Locomotive that he builds 40...

Hi Guys I would like to share some news about our J 611 with you. After almost all work on the locomotive had been completed, we could concentrate on the tender bogies. With the help of a jig we milled a lot of material out of the cast parts. Here we had to think of the sheet metal construction of o...

Russ, the left pumped is not so far fabricated as the right one. Left side still has to be milled, so that the part can be clamped better, there is still some material on top of it. On the left I simply put the lanterns together incorrectly for the picture. As is say...left side is a few work steps ...

very simple ...left one is not plugged correct ...my bad. Sorry for confusing

Regards

Hey Folks, after collecting drawings and stuff for the commenwealth trucks of T95 Tender i started with my two , westinghouse compound air pumps. Im building it by silver soldering way...we dont have such good casting for US parts as you do over there 😀. IMG-20210223-WA0029.jpg IMG-20210223-WA0028.j...

Hey Guys,

glad you like.

All the best
Chris

Hey Friends, after a while, time to post some new impressions of pur 611. During Corona , we did good progress. At the moment we mounting all parts again. We still had to pickel the stainless steel boiler,necessary for a first steam test . Have a look.... IMG-20201229-WA0015.jpg IMG-20201229-WA0014....