The Home Machinist!

The photo of the 3/4' engine is of Mel Mc Donough. He runs this engine weekly .He is very important to our club since he voluntiers to clean it weekly. I will be disabling the high track tommorrow for about a month at least. He plans on having his engine serviced during that time.NICE JOB ON THE PHO...

The problem with our facility is that our parking is limited. Its to bad that both events got scheduled the same weekend. Even though it should be a great time and I can hardly wait to see all those little locos come out from there shelf displays . I will have my Harry Dixon built Atlantic on displa...

I am also guilty of firing a 1" Pacific with no water in it. The gauge went to 100 real quick and then promptly went to zero. Not being a rocket scientist I quickly figured out what I had done. Iv'e never repeated this blunder but it could happen again as I get older. HA! HA!

MIke he has promised me that he will get the high track done at GGLS for our high track small scale meet in September. Is too bad that he has to work for a living. He would be full time in his shop with projects.

If anyone would like to contact Andy contact me and I will forward his contact info to you.

Dan Thanks for sharing such a cool Video. Can you imagine at todays wages what they would cost? Were they giving away free cigarettes after leaving the building?

I can assure you his (Robs) smile was as wide as his locomotive and rightly so. This engine ran flawlesley . Max was really upset when Rob and Erin left to go out for a spin. When he heard the awsume whistle on this ride he couldn't wait to get back to the yards so he could ride again. I can hardly ...

Today should be a fantastic day as Rob reveals his newest creation.As a proud father I will be at the track to witness this event as well as 20 or more other live steamers. We kicked around the idea of running our engines at last Thursdays work session and after a brief notice on our chatsite everyo...

Try Mike at little engines. I think he has some.Email him at highiron@aol.com

The Golden Gate live steamers still has 2 1/2" gauge track in operation. It's true that most engines that ran on it are sitting on a mantel or in storage but once in awhile we have one show up to run. Later this year we plan to host a small scale meet put on by Matt Mason. I plan on having my n...

Back in the 70's i restored Harry Dixons 4-4-0 at my house by Santa Cruz Cal. I got to run it at the GGLS track one time before returning it home to his widow. A week ago I purchased this engine along with 3 other engines Harry built . The Dixie Belle 4-4-0 is now residing in Washington State. The b...

thanks Bobby and John I need to get the pictures posted