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Continue reading →Send me your Live Steam events and I will post them in our new Events Calender. Please include
Continue reading →The update to this website has been completed almost seamlessly, although I am still transferring all of the galleries. Please let me know what you think of the new site. You can drop me an eMail or leave a comment on
Continue reading →I always know that summer is over when we reach the Annual WLS Meet Weekend. This past weekend was our annual meet weekend. Check out the pictures in the gallery. If you have any pictures to share, just send them … Continue reading →
Stevenson Valve Gear In 1841 two employees in Stephenson’s locomotive works, draughtsman William Howe and pattern-maker William Williams, suggested the simple expedient of replacing the gabs with a vertical slotted link, pivoted at both ends to the tips of the … Continue reading →
(November 7, 2007) Stage 1 and 2 contain the frame and drive wheels. The frame is beautiful. It is probably made on a CNC and is powder coated. It is held together in four places – the front and read … Continue reading →
(November 2, 2007) The first section of the locomotive included everything necessary to build the entire kit. Typical OS fashion, the kit is immaculate – everything is done with great thought and precision. My first order arrived just about two … Continue reading →
I have always loved the early American style locomotive. In fact, my fist project was a 1-1/2” scale American 4-4-0. My next locomotive was the 3/4” gauge OS Porter. I purchased this as a kit from an older gentleman who never finished it … Continue reading →
Here are a few pictures of my Little Engines, Baldwin Mogul during her first steam-up. I plan on rebuilding this locomotive in the future and selling her. The track is the Waushakum
Continue reading →I’m building the Railroad Suppy 2-8-0 Consolidation. I really have not kept up with updating this page, but will post pictures here and there to give you a look of where I am in the project. I’ll have to re-post … Continue reading →
The Queen of Peace 1-1/2″ scale 4-4-0 (You can find pictures of a rebuild of this locomotive in the gallery.) The American style locomotive was the standard engine built by all of the locomotive manufacturers for many years bfore the turn of … Continue reading →