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by RingRailroad
Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:16 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Mid South Spring Meet
Replies: 10
Views: 3825

Re: Mid South Spring Meet

I'll be there with Wabash #591 and whatever else will fit in the trailer.
by RingRailroad
Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:47 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: THE RPO IS FINISHED
Replies: 4
Views: 2060

Re: THE RPO IS FINISHED

Dave,
Sharp looking car. Any projections on when couplers might be ready? I'd love to have a couple pairs like my old Mercers.....they were the great.

Thanks,

Alan
Wabash & Southern Railroad
Christiana, TN
by RingRailroad
Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:38 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Paul Brien's Kanawha - any info on it ?
Replies: 9
Views: 3989

Re: Paul Brien's Kanawha - any info on it ?

Paul's engine was merely named "Kanawha" as far as I can remember. It was an 0-4-0, had a stainless jacket, southern valve gear, and was closer to maybe 2" scale than anything else. I remember that one of the neater things about the engine was that the actual boiler courses were taper...
by RingRailroad
Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:38 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Looking for LE Atlantic
Replies: 0
Views: 1047

Looking for LE Atlantic

Happy New Year all, I'm trying to locate a particular LE Atlantic, # 3002 (imagine that). Sold roughly 1996 by a man in Memphis, TN to an unknown buyer "out west." The engine was oil fired and reasonably detailed, and had a SS Nathan injector ahead of the cab on the engineer's side. Blower...
by RingRailroad
Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:18 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: New engine, First Steamup, First Run
Replies: 8
Views: 3459

Just remember to make sure that your sight glass blowdown valve is always shut while under steam..... :wink:

Alan
by RingRailroad
Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:38 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Rivet holes
Replies: 33
Views: 15555

WOW

What I think said person fails to understand is that sometimes things do not scale down, and other methods may be used to achieve 1)correct appearance, and 2)proper function. One has to simply to achieve a proper balance between the two. This forum is not intended to be an avenue of heavy-handed cri...
by RingRailroad
Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:07 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Boring cast iron?
Replies: 59
Views: 23384

hmmm.

"Interestingly my post concerning accumulated error has completely disappeared!! I wonder why because it concerned what I thought was an informative subject." Jesse, I was also wondering where your post went. I found the half of the story I got to read very interesting. Sorry I wasn't allo...
by RingRailroad
Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:49 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: Mid South Live Steamers?
Replies: 28
Views: 10669

MSlS Website

In all fairness to the (former) webmaster, he graduated from college and began a career as a police officer, so trains and any associated activities have likely been put on the back burner. He and one other young man did an excellent job of creating and maintaining the website, and hopefully the web...