Live Steam Big Boy :)

[TrainFanKevin]

I found one of these on ebay and have been fascinated by it. I have never seen anything quite like it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ESTATE- ... escription

I wish I could afford to bid on it..

Anyhow, I am not new to Live Steam. I have owned an HJ Coventry President Class. I only had it for display though. Never ran it. It was not complete. I dabble mostly in HO and O Japanese brass models though...

So what do you guys think about this big boy?

Kevin

[Kimball McGinley]

I think those were commercially made for "G" scale track by a major manufacturer of ready to run garden scale steamers.

[AnthonyDuarte]

The locomotive appears to be scratch built, at least to my eyes. And it's pictured sitting on O gauge track.
Wish the seller had more info on the engine's history.

[TrainFanKevin]

Indeed it is O gauge scratch built. It's really nice! Especially that front end... Wonder how old it is. Could be 50s or earlier.

[dnevil]

I believe this was built by Roll Neff. The cylinder drain cock arrangement is exactly as he described in this article:

http://ibls.org/mediawiki/index.php?tit ... nder_Cocks

Roll built over 50 live steam locomotives in O scale.

Daris

[kvom]

$15,100 winning bid!

[SteveM]

$15,100 winning bid!

Wow. The bids were (roughly):
$3,500
$4,000
$15,000
$15,100 (actually higher, but the increments were $100, so the winner gets it with $100 over the second highest bid).

Steve