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The past two weekends I took the engine apart and painted it. I got it all back together. All that is left to do is put the brake rigging back under the engine. This past week I also got the cylinder saddle and smoke box from Andy Pullen. They look really nice! Here are some pics. The last picture i...

I would like to welcome any live steamers to the Northeastern Ohio Live Steamers 45th Anniversary Meet September 12-14. We are having a steak dinner on Saturday evening also. We are located in Medina Ohio and our website is neols.net. If anyone has any questions please feel free to email me at b.tus...

After not having done much on the engine lately I did finally finish the brake rigging two weekends ago. Between going to the Pioneer Valley Live Steamers twice, Montreal Live Steamers once, putting my 3/4 inch Mogul back together, and acquiring a Railroad Supply 4-4-0 the Pacific sort of took a bac...

Can anyone tell me where I can get a headlight bracket like this? It is for a Mosley Headlight.



Thank you,
Brian

I am planning on being there with some convincing from Mr. Bratina. Not sure if my mogul will be fixed or not, but I will be there with or without a locomotive.

Brian

Here is the photo Harry was trying to post. They are very nice trucks.



Brian

Here are some updates on the Pacific. The suspension was finished this weekend and I also made the roller rockers for the rear truck. This was a very frustrating weekend working on the engine, the most so far, but Mike and Marty have to me it is part of building a steam engine. My goal at this point...

No one has an extra set of these domes available?

If anyone has any extra steam or sand domes for the RR Supply Heavy Mikado I would like to buy one of each. RR Warehouse won't sell them to me since I am not building one of his mikados and RR Supply does not have them available yet. You can pm me here or email me at b.tusin@yahoo.com Thank you, Brian

My chassis on all of the wheels for the first time on Sunday. http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s210/briantusin/d7b774f5-66e6-4a3d-8981-d1a40af0bc7a_zps3615e186.jpg At Cabin Fever I picked up the awesome boiler from Marty Knox. It looks great! I also got a few parts from Mike Venezia and got a larg...

I would just like to thank Marty Knox and Glenn at Ridge Locomotive Works for an awesome boiler!! The quality is unbelievable, all the welds and joints look great. In my opinion Marty's boilers are one of the best values in the hobby for what you get.

Brian

A great time was had at Mike's and a lot of great stories were told.

Brian