The Home Machinist!

After 16 months of ignoring it, I decided to start working on the engine again. We had hit several roadblocks last time we tried timing it, and now we had to correct them. First off, the chassis needed weight on it to simulate how the suspension would settle once the actual boiler was in place. I as...

Thank you Marty and Dick!

I am specifically asking about full size (not model) boilers for a presentation I am giving. I assumed that people here would know the rules regarding full size steam boilers, hence my question. I thought I heard a rule that full size boilers could only be fired up so many times before it required r...

That is such a neat train! How did you acquire it?

Awesome news!

I scanned my plan sheets (24" x 36") and then cut/pasted the image of each individual part and put it on a separate page in a word document. That way, I can print out just the diagram I need to take into the shop and the rest remain printed in a binder for easy reference if necessary. As I...

I believe I read somewhere that one of the limiting factors on full size steam locomotives is the number of fire-ups that can be performed on a boiler before it needs to be inspected. Because firing up (and cooling down) a boiler creates stresses on the boiler which would lead to problems, railroads...

Is Roy Carruther a member here? He built a Kozo Heisler that I wrote about in LS&OR in 2011

Great! Thanks.

Well, like you I live in NY... not Minnesota.

That's okay.

Bill,
Any luck with the picture?