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Marty_Knox wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:49 pm Is the steam dome removable? Do you have any way to drain the water, any blowdown valves?

the steam dome dad and i are not sure, we'll have to ask dick cudd who finished the locomotive for us when dave sclavi failed to do so. but we do have 2 blow downs.

Dan

this is for marty knox. marty, my father and i want to do a boiler wash on our hudson locomotive. it's a steel boiler with copper tubes. the boiler shell is all original from 1997. it was reflued by fred boufard about 4 years after the original galvanized water tubing that sclavi had used failed. si...

glad you liked it guys. i was telling some of my friends from NJLS that this is the 2nd Y6b type locomotive i have seen in our scale. im attaching pictures of another one coal fired in england. which is just as nice as this one that bruno platzer built. enjoy

just like the subject title says for all N&W fans out there. this will spruce up your voltage. enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW23-b7GpVA

Daniel

tamaqua is having it's annual railfest in august this year. here is an ad from the railroad highlighting all the highlights of the festival.

https://www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/tamaqua-railfest

i have updated the original ebay link with a new one. the original expired yesterday and the new link has 5 new hats for sale. better get em while their hot. just make sure you know your hat size.

Daniel

new trips this year, check it out. https://www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/ramble ... ZOJUylnY1V

Dan

some more news from R&GN and the whiskey river shops. a new boiler was made and They fitted the cab to the boiler of the 4001. Starting to look like a real locomotive now. I understand that the tender is painted and ready to roll when they are ready to attach it to the locomotive… photos and inf...

try the old fashioned way and call the phone numbers 610-342-7577, 717-940-4156. thats for LSB 8000

818) 308 5076, thats for one step.

hope that works for you.

NP317 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:59 am Sure makes me wonder where those locomotives are today.
RussN

me too

Bill, it's funny you say about the chassis being 25%. I was going to mention something along those exact same lines in my original post, but I didn't want to sound too depressing! 😄 I couldn't agree more, and as noted I find the building process and the incremental progress to be very rewarding. I ...

Hi all, This past weekend I found myself in need of some 3/8 × 5/16 model reducing union tees for my 2-8-0 project, 3/8"-40 model taper pipe on the run and 5/16"-27 model taper pipe on the branch (aka "bull"). So I made some. The union part is actually half of a PM Research unio...