The Home Machinist!

I seem to remember riding on a train in Colorado, maybe 3 years ago, that burns wood pellets. It was Full Size or at least Narrow guage commercial/tourist....
I can't remember....
memory is slipping...
must be from the wood pellet fumes.
Scotty

Continental US... any state except Hawaii?

Hope this old find brings a smile or two.

https://youtu.be/j1pAQgB5oZc
Times were simpler and more innocent.

Scotty

IMG_0608.jpg The Crown Jewel of our humble fleet finally out in the bright Arizona Sun! We now have about 1/8 th of a mile of 12# - 15" track guage laid, (goal is 1260' for this first loop) I've been trying to talk the gang into double guaging the track to also accomodate 12" guage. That ...

Finally got our first crossing poured.
So now we are up to 1st of three road crossings complete, 260 feet of track placed of which 200 feet is mainline (not aligned, leveled or ballasted yet). First switch actuall tied in.
Off and Running!!! again

Now, the next challange... pouring concrete for the first road crossing.
Gonna be a long day tomorrow
Scotty

Mike: We did exactly that! Actually, while I had it in the mill, I chalked up a piece of tool steel and ran the table back and forth to scribe a line for the shop to index it all with. We ended up taking the axles to a larger professional shop whose specialty is rebuilding heavy equipment rams. They...

Opportunites to Buy and Sell!
In North Phoenix. It is largely a fund raiser that happens twice yearly to support the Museum that is constructing the new 15" railroad.
Scotty

Got it off display and into the CarBarn. Next step was to remove the trucks and driver and begin reguaging from 14" to 15". Maybe move each driver outward by 1/2". Drivers have been welded to ths axles. Making it difficult to determine original axle diameter. So as determine what to c...

No, fraid not. Would be nice tho.

Next, get the drivers off the Loco.
Here are both axles, note the bronze journal boxes are also the bearing.

As we saw previously, step one was to get the Hurlburt out of display and into the Car Barn for reguaging.