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There were two engines that were based on the Merlin. The Allison and the Packard. The first P-51s had the Allison. They flew well but were underperforming. The English got a batch of 5 or 6 of the early ones. A test pilot thought that the plane flew well but was under powered. He suggested that a M...

Those gears are not the same as the ones that my father inspected during WWII at Lockheed but they are of the same quality. He was a precision parts inspector on the P-38 line. His responsibility was for the turbo charger gears for the P-38. The shop was having trouble meeting the prints requirement...

Could the B be for Baldwin?
Cary

I have forgotten that ladies name but my late wife stood in for her several summers when she was not teaching nursing students. Those photos of the 4-4-0s raised some hackles at Little Engines. Chet had them on the molding surrounding the big window that looked in on the Engineering room. He had cap...

I suspect that to fully understand the details of a steam locomotive's operating characteristics you will have to delve into thermal dynamics, Ranquine cycles, etc. It is a very extensive and deep subject that most live steam model operators do not bother with. We learn how to build, mnatain and ope...

Hi Dianne, This is not about this thread but should be of some interest to you. Go to Facebook, Live Steam History of Sothern California, Mike Massey photo just loaded. The photo is a 1957 shot of a Little Engines 4-2-4T C.P.Huntington. It is the prototype of your 4-4-0. All that was done was remove...

I just re watched the video and now wonder why he didn't clean up the rust and paint the change gear face on the front face of the headstock? Strange and some of the sequences of operations seemed off. I wonder what he sold it for or if he "restored" the lathe for his own use? How do you k...

Kind of reminds of the old IAM papers during WWII and he cartoons there in. Out Our Way and Bull Of The Woods. Many of those were about old worn out machines that the company or what ever reason would not rebuild or replace. I remember one in which a young machinist was temporally assigned to a very...

Bill Donovan at Real Trains sold different steam oil for displacement and mechanical lubrication. He explained it to me a long time ago but I have forgotten why the difference. Stuart-Turner's stationary models all used displacement lubricators attached to the engine at the steam inlet. Most locos t...

One small correction. The name of the owner of the engine in your photo is Dan Markov. Sorry about that.
Cary

Your photo of the Eureka belongs to Dan Markham and I believe it is stored at the Nevada State Railroad Museum - South in Henderson, NV. It is fully restored to its as delivered appearance from Baldwin in the early 1870s. There are two 2-6-0 Baldwin 3ft gage loco that have also been restored to ther...

Thank you Gentlemen. It is rojam18801 who I am looking for. I knew the cars had been sold. However, it is the Victorian houses in the background that I am interested in. I remember that there was another post, perhaps to another site, that had detail photos of the cars and the houses. A lady on anot...