The Home Machinist!

When I have things that I don’t need or want.....I am happy to just give them to a friend.

So the valve pilot was an engineer nanny.... No..it was an engineer spy. It was used so the Road Foreman could check on the engineer’s use of cut off so they could yell at him for wasting coal. While a different form...today they have “event recorders.” And for the same purpose...to spy on what the...

In the second film, there is Frank De Santis with his Wabash Mogul double heading with what looks to be a Tweetsie 4-6-0?, Steve, that is not a Tweetsie 4-6-0 it is a Southern Railway Ten Wheeler also built by Frank DeSantis and owned when this was taken by the Triggiani family from New Jersey. The...

Now here is how to pack a locomotive!

Keith

all of this is good reason to get to a loco size that you can pick up and put in the back of your Subaru. :D old age...frustration...high blood pressure...bad backs...impatience.... pick one...or all :shock: My wife Ginny picks up my little LNER Atlantic by her self and carries it to the parking lo...

No Rob, no Little Engines castings. For one thing it isn’t 1” scale. It is 3 - 1/2” gauge, but when it was built Lewis Bullock didn’t live near any 4 - 3/4” gauge tracks. So he built it to 7/8” scale to run on 3 - 1/2” gauge tracks! Mr. Bullock always made all of his own patterns and to his own desi...

Steve Bratina wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:37 am

The Lehigh Valley engine was built by Lew Bullock, went to Sherwood ?

Sherwood Fritchman of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Keith

The Lehigh Valley 2095 sits patiently in my shop. It has gotten a bit too heavy for Ginny and me to load and unload anymore.
I would need some strong young help to move it anymore.

RATS! I thought it was a real thing.....

Keith

Not Bill Morewood’s Raritan. Mr. Morewood’s engine was finished back in the 1960’s long before this video was taken.

Still...a great video!

Keith

That is an 18” gauge Cagney gasoline powered locomotive. They were built in New York State and were always internal combustion powered.

Keith

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