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Postby bob turner » Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:48 pm

I was looking for some photos for George Sokol in Tucson - realized I did not have a shot of my Little Engines Northern - 17/64, and I have seen it run on air, before I tried to make it look like an actual Northern, rather than a tractor boiler with a tender running backwards. It is set up for propane, and that strange thing by the tender truck is a hand water pump. Not insulated . . .

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Re: Live Steam

Postby sarge » Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:20 am

Bob, if you recognise this incomplete live-steam Hudson, I’d love to know what it is that has been sitting here in my workshop forever. The construction so far is very well done. Fidelity to a prototype is pretty sketchy.

I’m not really interested in doing anything with it so, if anyone wants it, PM me, trade me something I can use, and its your’s. Grin!

BTW, all the basic tender panels are here, too.

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Re: Live Steam

Postby bob turner » Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:01 pm

Probably scratchbuilt. Has none of the attributes of Little Engines or Neff.

George sent me this strange 4-2-0 that looked like a fugitive from Transylvania. I salvaged the cylinders and backhead, and married them to this ten-wheeler, which will never be run under steam or air, or anything else for that matter. It just seemed like an intriguing project to save the workmanship.

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Re: Live Steam

Postby bob turner » Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:11 pm

Forgot to post this - here is the backhead. Please tell me I didn't post this here on some other thread?

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Re: Live Steam

Postby bob turner » Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:00 pm

Slowly making progress, between the U50 and the D&H Challenger:

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Re: Live Steam

Postby De Bruin » Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:01 pm

You can't help it Bob
despite the disparaging remarks, pretty cool looking ten-wheeler,
that straight tender makes me think Texas Lines- SA&AP or SAU&G
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Re: Live Steam

Postby bob turner » Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:42 pm

Still working on that. Ready to solder air lines on, and have a new SP oil tender ready. Meantime, I was scanning my other live steam. This one came from Leon Jacobson (RIP)' and I think he got it from Ed Puryear. I made the tender from brass, and re-did the wheel base to match the SP S-9.

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Re: Live Steam

Postby R.K. Maroon » Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:59 pm

That is a really nice looking locomotive. What gauge might it be? And is it hand-lettered, or were you able to find decals (or transfers) that large commercially?
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Re: Live Steam

Postby bob turner » Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:48 am

Little Engines 1" Scale. A friend did the vinyl press-ons for me, but Callie Graphics now does all my vinyl work.

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Re: Live Steam

Postby R.K. Maroon » Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:33 pm

I just noticed the miniature version of an 0-6-0 sitting on the tender deck:

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Would that be an HO model? Just guessing from the relative size.

Also, is the gauge 4-3/4" or 5"? From what I understand, both gauges are found. Sounds like O-scale!

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Re: Live Steam

Postby bob turner » Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:13 am

Yes, Roundhouse. Acquired when I was ten. Bolted on!

4 3/4” gauge. Five inch gauge is extremely rare, unlike the 7 1/4”/ 7 1/2” conundrum. Which segues into my now sold BIG live steamer:

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Re: Live Steam

Postby bob turner » Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:43 pm

1.6" scale, 7 1/2" gauge. I owned this beauty for almost a quarter century. Had the boiler off for a new dry tube, straightened the tailbeam with Helicoil inserts, made a new cab, raised the domes and stack, and had great plans to run it. That didn't work; like airplanes and sailboats, operating one of these is a skill that develops over many weekends of effort and failure. I did run it under steam on a test track.

Tender is .032 brass, riveted with brass pins driven with a surplus Boeing rivet gun. As close as I could get to an SP prototype without actually counting rivets. Sold it several years ago, and really don't miss it all that much. Way too big.

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Re: Live Steam

Postby bob turner » Sat Apr 01, 2023 2:14 pm

Carey just got a new Live Steamer - it is a 17/64 scale LE Northern. I think I shall encourage him to post here, so in the meantime I scanned my Little Engines Camelback, enhanced the scan a bit, and herewith:

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This is from a while ago - it was running on air after about a half century of me trying to pretend to be a machinist. It is a bit further along, and the tender is now behind a Puryear/LE 0-6-0, which is probably above. I will get some more recent photos this spring in the digital camera.

Carey - your turn!

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Re: Live Steam

Postby E7 » Sat Apr 01, 2023 2:42 pm

bob turner wrote:Forgot to post this - here is the backhead. Please tell me I didn't post this here on some other thread?


Considering the frequency that you post things, the only place I can be sure you didn't post it (at least lately) is OGR. :mrgreen:

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Re: Live Steam

Postby J. S. Bach » Sat Apr 01, 2023 4:01 pm

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol: :mrgreen:


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