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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: pancakes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 379
Re: pancakes
The cinders would add a bit of roughage, too.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: "If at first you don't succeed..." Indiana Northern #4- Allen 0-4-0
- Replies: 40
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Re: "If at first you don't succeed..." Indiana Northern #4- Allen 0-4-0
A couple of tips for a new shop: lots of electric outlets. Put them bench height from the floor, and not less than 4-hole. Perhaps about 4 to 6 feet apart. Consider an outlet strip at the back of the workbench. A few 220-volt also. And Do Not use white PVC for air. Some folks do but it is not recomm...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: USA Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas
- Replies: 17
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Re: USA Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas
And there is the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris. That's a bit out of the way but they have a large collection of locomotives, cars and traction equipment.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: USA Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1237
Re: USA Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas
Oh my. I totally missed the "via LA" part of your post. Much of what I wrote was assuming you'll be going straight from SF to Vegas. In addition to what Andy mentioned, there is Travel Town, next to the LA Live Steamers. If you can, take a peek into Los Angeles Union Station. The architect...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: USA Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1237
Re: USA Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas
John above mentions the Roaring Camp and Big Trees railroad in Felton. I didn't note that because it's really not on the way from SF to LV, but it is most worth a visit if you can make it. They run a Shay into the woods and up one of the steepest grades in the country. You can get a cab ride and to ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: USA Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1237
Re: USA Trip from San Francisco to Las Vegas
If you give us more information about your route and schedule we can better advise you. You have two options for a route: over I-80 toward Reno (or 50 past South Lake Tahoe) and down 395 on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, cutting through Death Valley, or down through California's Ce...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
- Replies: 725
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Re: Railroad Warehouse 2.8.2 Mikado Logger Build
I have more tools, supplies, and miniature train jewelry than I'd like to admit that I bought but hasn't yet used. However, I have a sense of wellbeing just knowing they are going to be there when and if I do need them, so they were a good investment. No, Dick. It doesn't work that way. See my post...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Build Log
- Topic: Northern 4-8-4 Build 3/4”
- Replies: 276
- Views: 66550
Re: Northern 4-8-4 Build 3/4”
Re. white lead, if you can find an old tube of artist's oil pigment labeled white lead, that's probably what it is. I've got one that is perhaps 30 years old and have used it for lubing centers and it seems to work.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Reducing union tees
- Replies: 12
- Views: 925
Re: Reducing union tees
The second law of building a steam loco is: Build the tender first 🤔, or at least concurrently with the loco. This is so true. I ignored that and I now think if I'd done that I would have learned things that would have helped me avoid some of the mistakes I made on the loco. (Just some of the mista...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Full Sized Railroading! (Chaski Railfan)
- Topic: Pix of UK traction events
- Replies: 0
- Views: 538
Pix of UK traction events
The Guardian has some pix from UK traction events. While not all are of the engines, they are fun to look at. To me the people are just as interesting as the engines. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/06/three-decades-of-the-english-steam-engine-scene-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iO...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: old photos
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4133
Re: old photos
At first glance it looks like that 36-incher is sitting on the elevated track.....
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Anyone like shapers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1544
Re: Anyone like shapers?
Here's an old pic of how I did the smokebox saddle on the 7-inch Atlas shaper. You can see the angle plates and bits that I clamped to the shaper column to hold the saddle casting. It took some careful adjustments to get everything in the right place. The giant c-clamp on the shaper head is so I cou...