The Home Machinist!

A suggestion.....build the tender first. It will give you experience and you won’t be risking more expensive castings. And more importantly when you get the locomotive ready to test you will already have a tender that includes a pump to test the boiler!
Keith

Gee...when I saw “New York Style,” I thought we were talking about pizza!

Keith

Ed Gilhooley used these castings to build his Forney.
Keith

Chris, it looks to me like the Reading A-5.
Keith

Andy had a much modified live steam Cagney locomotive as well. That is currently on display at the Boothbay Railway Village. in Boothbay, Maine. Andy had a large collection of stationary steam engines including a very large marine engine from one of the lake steamers. How Andy dragged that up from t...

That is the late Andy Anderson’s equipment.

And another: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/80056402_four-piece-hand-live-steam-model-outdoor-train While there are some crude cosmetic touches.....the locomotive is a 1 “ scale Coventry B&O I-4 It looks like somebody bought a part finished locomotive and finished it without any mechanical sk...

Hi Dick....that link works a treat!
Thanks, Keith

That link doesn’t work for me.
Keith

And Frank Birch designed several locomotives in both 1/2” and 3/4” scales. Also Calvert Holt of Greenwich, Connecticut designed several locomotives in 1/2” and 3/4” and 1 - 1/2” scales.

Alan Armitage designed the 3/4” scale Atlantic that was sold by Friends Models.

It came from a pattern shop where it was only used on wood. I added the Servo drive and the Trav-A-Dials.