The Home Machinist!

Hey, I would love one of those pumps on the engine I am building, you got one to spare? LOL But on the more serious side, know where prints and or castings are availble for one? Rob After VB died Don Ritchie of WLS (Waushakum) got the original plans and shop books and re-engineered the VB pump. The...

You already posted a problem that came up with the starvation design in the "Professional Builders" post. Perhaps this is what prompted this post? Yes, that's where the idea for the topic came from. Was that a failure of axle pump design, materials and/or application? Sounds like an appli...

Are we all just waiting for Bill then? Nick Not really, I had to get back to work for a while... All my steamers have bypass plumbing. I admit when I first heard of the starvation method, the night the UP Northern seized, I wasn't impressed. The next day I was talking with Charlie Purinton and he s...

ccvstmr wrote:...and your question is....what? cb

It is a suggested topic for discussion rather than a question.

Here you go Bill... Let's set the premise for this topic to start with (I know most of the active writers on this board know all this but there may be some readers who have never plumbed or operated a steamer). There are two methods of controling the water supply to an axle pump. The most common is ...

Mike at RRSC will also do a job on commission..I saw his UP Northern over the weekend and it is an impressive job. Mike has done a fair bit of work on the 4-8-4 but I believe the original builder was the late Lindy Knight. The one and only time I rode behind the loco was at WLS in 2000, late one ni...

Jim, thanks for the pictures. A couple of them contain the double water pump I so much admired in at WLS recently when your doughter worked on that loco in the depo making ready to go. Yo do not happen to have some drawings for that pump, do you? Thanks. Vic Hello Vic, Sorry to say I don't have any...

more...

more...

The event...

Shop pics...

This past Saturday saw the revival of the Trials at the Montreal Live Steamers. We skipped a couple of years due to track reconstruction. We run a fairly casual event focused on having a good time rather than picking nits rule-wise. We pinched most of those from the Golden Horseshoe club near Hamilt...