Live Steam

[bob turner]

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 . . .

[sarge]

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.

[bob turner]

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.

[bob turner]

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

[bob turner]

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

[De Bruin]

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

[bob turner]

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.

[R.K. Maroon]

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?

[bob turner]

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

[R.K. Maroon]

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



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!

Jim

[bob turner]

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:

[bob turner]

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.

[bob turner]

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:



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!

[E7]

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.

[J. S. Bach]