The Home Machinist!

What a find! Please post a lot of pictures if you can, details, please?

I think that will forever be "House, with large safe" =D

Sort of the reverse of that is finding a novel approach to the problem; a friend up in Ottawa built a 4 seat plane in his basement, about 11' wide without wings attached, the old joke about not being too bright how are you going to get it out of there? Nearing completion he was sitting in the living...

Plus pushing and pulling on cast iron it is possible to crack or break a chunk off, is your move insured?

I can't recall but I know I have heard the $1700 figure here and other places several times. Interesting, like that is the going rate?

We've moved a Bridgeport with a small Bobcat with forks, no problem. We've put two lathes (one large CNC 12x36) in the basement (lucky enough to have concrete basement stairs from garage) using an engine hoist, planks, car dollies and ropes tied to trailer hitch. The big deal is always the lifting, ...

Sometimes listed under "Riggers"

Yes I kind of picked the M-21 because it's not another "generic" 2-6-0. it is a 2-6-0 on steroids; bigger drivers, bigger cylinders, bigger boiler, higher pressure, higher gross weight. There was not enough room around the boiler for the front doors you see on other Moguls. They had feedwa...

Russ, yup, any configuration but coal powered =)... the one I wanted. But considering people go from coal to propane...meh? Seriously though it would have been nice to stick with some degree of authenticity. John, yes, I noticed 1838 was missing the heater and came to the same conclusion that it had...

Hard to determine at what point in their lifetime these pictures were taken, maybe original issue was with 70/90/100-C-2 type tenders and later the other type?

A tender dilemma; it appears each has a slightly different tender ...
#1838
?
#1839
may be same type as 1838?
#1840
a 70-C-2?
#1841
a 70/90-C-2?
#1843
a 90/100-C-2?
HO Brass model
a 70-C-2?

Russ, ack you took away my excuse for not doing the SP tender =D
Okay, what is the drive system on the rear truck of the tender?