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by Greg_Lewis
Sat Feb 03, 2024 10:33 pm
Forum: Full Sized Railroading! (Chaski Railfan)
Topic: A strange 1909 monorail
Replies: 10
Views: 684

A strange 1909 monorail

Here's your next live steam project: a 1909 monorail:
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And here are links to a Youtube vid and a Wikipedia article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
by Greg_Lewis
Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: Build Log
Topic: Northern 4-8-4 Build 3/4”
Replies: 276
Views: 62133

Re: Northern 4-8-4 Build 3/4”

Way cool.
by Greg_Lewis
Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: old photos
Replies: 41
Views: 3652

Re: old photos

BTW, Griffith Park, at 9 square miles, was the home of P-22, a famous mountain lion, who lived there for about 10 years. He was sometimes seen in the neighborhoods around the park and two years ago, after attacking a couple of chihuahuas, he was trapped. They discovered that he had been hit by a car...
by Greg_Lewis
Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:07 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: old photos
Replies: 41
Views: 3652

Re: old photos

I think 2454 may have been owned by a guy named Buzz Sutch. His name does come up in a search on this site and on the IBLS site. But that's only a fuzzy memory and it may have been someone else. As to the track: For those who don't know, the Los Angeles Live Steamers is in Griffith Park, which, at o...
by Greg_Lewis
Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:56 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: old photos
Replies: 41
Views: 3652

Re: old photos

Here are a couple more from LALS in the mid 1990s. The first is Dave Rohr's engine, which I think is 3 3/4 scale or thereabouts. The second is Harry Haas's. That engine showed me that I didn't want to build in 2 1/2 scale. It is massive and very powerful but just too big for me. There is a funny sto...
by Greg_Lewis
Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: old photos
Replies: 41
Views: 3652

Re: old photos

Thanks. I only made it to Goleta once but it was amazing. Here are a couple from the Los Angeles Live Steamers in Griffith Park that I snapped back in 1962. I think the engineer on the second loco is Frank Mann. I don't know anything more; I was too shy to talk to anyone; I'd just sit on a bench and...
by Greg_Lewis
Sat Jan 27, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A question about engineering drawings....
Replies: 44
Views: 1600

Re: A question about engineering drawings....

Yes, I'm saving that rod for last. Well.... this thread has been fun but has drifted several miles away from the original post. I may start a thread on the live steam section about pumps as we may be leaving out folks who only check this site there and would benefit from such a discussion. Now off t...
by Greg_Lewis
Sat Jan 27, 2024 1:21 pm
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: 20 and 30lb horizontial propane tanks - good deal
Replies: 12
Views: 1073

Re: 20 and 30lb horizontial propane tanks - good deal

Well, I'm just reporting my experience. I have had folks decline to fill outdated tanks, and was told by the propane company that my horizontal tanks needed to be filled in the horizontal position. I've also had to drive clear across town to get tanks filled and to search for a place when out of tow...
by Greg_Lewis
Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Live Steam
Topic: 20 and 30lb horizontial propane tanks - good deal
Replies: 12
Views: 1073

Re: 20 and 30lb horizontial propane tanks - good deal

Something to think about when designing a car for propane tanks: The horizontal tanks are expensive compared to vertical ones. And you will own those tanks and have to have them re-certified after 12 years and then perhaps as often as every 5 years after that, and you'll have to pay for that certifi...
by Greg_Lewis
Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A question about engineering drawings....
Replies: 44
Views: 1600

Re: A question about engineering drawings....

I'm going to try the o-ring method. One note I have from someone is to use the AFLAS o-rings. We'll find out if that's right. No castings — all bar stock. The first thing I did on this was to collect all the info I could find from magazine articles, comments on this forum, and notes from wherever, a...
by Greg_Lewis
Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A question about engineering drawings....
Replies: 44
Views: 1600

Re: A question about engineering drawings....

What Bill and I are referring to is the air pump on steam locomotives that supplies compressed air for brakes and other uses. The single cylinder pump in the photo below, which is the big thing to the left of the cab door, is a complicated thing to make in 1/8 scale as there are many passages in the...
by Greg_Lewis
Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A question about engineering drawings....
Replies: 44
Views: 1600

Re: A question about engineering drawings....

warmstrong1955 wrote: Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:00 pm Fact remains, as long as you can read and understand what you drew…..or scribbled, good enuff!

You are presuming that I can read and understand what I drew.... :roll:

Harold: Mark Twain once wrote: "I never let my schooling interfere with my education."