18” ga De Winton vertical boiler loco (English Clishay design)

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18” ga De Winton vertical boiler loco (English Clishay design)

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Went up to the Bellingham area today to look over an amazing 18” gauge backyard Railway today. The owner laid 3/4 mile of track (12# rail) built 180’ of trestle, AND scratch built this unbelievable wood fired, vertical boiler, two cylinder, vertical engine, slate mine loco - named “Beverley”l. The Loco has a proper ASME code boiler, and is wood fired.

This looks generally like the American Clishay locomotives of logging fame, but is actually modeled after the English De Winton & Company engineering works slate quarry locos, produced from 1854 - 1901. This one was built by the owner, here in Washington State in 1999. Photos speak for themselves.
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And a few shots of the shop - restored masterpiece in itself. At one time, the owner powered all, these belt drive machines with an overhead belt system, driven by the square industrial boiler you can see in the center of the room.

Anybody ever worked with a 1904 steam driven, belt drive hammer? Here it is:
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Rare 6” South Bend lathe
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This vertical bandsaw is 7’ tall!
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Notice the traditional red brick flooring!
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Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge

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Re: 18” ga Beverley Slate loco (English Clishay design)

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Beautiful stuff. I told a friend; I saw the next listing, a steamboat, for $6000 and I thought it was for this one and I was seriously getting my checkbook warmed up. I understand this collection is worth much more than that.

Though I plan on a return to ‘sesquipedalian’ (18”) railroading, I am concentrating on my 7 1-2” stuff currently because we rent and it is somewhat portable, I can fit most everything in my pickup...

Did you happen to see his gas and electric passenger trams?
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Re: 18” ga De Winton loco (English Clishay design)

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Russel,

The gas trolley is actually the little yellow frame thing behind the Beverley.
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It has a brigs and Stratton 5 hp motor under the seat, coupled to an actual miniature friction drive. Stomp on the button down on the floor protruding out of the angled foot rest and a San Francisco trolley bell clangs, each time you stomp the button. Loud and clear - CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! very cool.

The seat design, with the iron pipe railing back rest and long forward/reverse Johnson Bar lever are modeled on the San Francisco Market Street trolleys, still running.

Apparently a German lawn mower company still makes the friction style drives - vertical, rubber coated wheel says in contact with a rotating horizontal disk mounted on the Briggs output shaft. So they gain 90* power transmission through contact of the two wheel surfaces. Simple. Apparently it charges around the track quite nicely.
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The frame has handles carved on both ends. So two people can pick up it up and move off the rails as needed.

The little electric cart is the last little one seater in the photo. Just a quick little ROW scooter. But with a very nicely done, high quality electric drive motor mounted directly to the rear axle.
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This is definitely a niche railroading approach. All quite eclectic, but a tribute to the earlier Victorian age industrial steam era, and very professionally done.

Glenn
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Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge

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Re: 18” ga De Winton vertical boiler loco (English Clishay design)

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Correction, sloppy editing on my part - “Beverley” is of course the name of the loco. It is modeled after the famous UK De Winton & Co. Engineering works slate quarry vertical boiler locos, produced from 1854 through 1901. They were also used in other industrial settings where short turning radius, short wheel base designs and working tram ways were essential to infrastructure construction and large scale industrial/manufacturing production.

De Winton vertical steam engines were also a mainstay in the U.K. Shipping building industry. De Winton built similar vertical marine engines up to 200 tonnes in size for steam ships. They are also widely used today in small hobbyist steam launches.

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCO ... l.htm#wint

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Winton


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Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge

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