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For my birthday yesterday I received 40 dollars in cash from my parents and a "coupon" worth $20 at the train expo from my grandparents (who aren't really into trains, but always go to the train expo because my grandma likes the layouts and my grampa likes the tiny cars. They have taken me...

Looks terrific. The pins look great as levers, I'll remember that!

drewzero1 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:58 pm but despite all warnings I still find myself looking at that stub switch and thinking, I could make one of those!

Me too...

The two unnamed towns now have names: The loop behind the barn is Weedeforrest (because it is) and the lower loop is Deadpine (for our failed attempt to plant a small pine tree). Now I'm thinking the Weedeforrest, Deadpine and Aspen Grove Railroad sounds better..... :scratch: I don't really want to ...

The engine itself is so huge that roads, especially river crossings, must have been a deciding factor in its limitations. When you have this much power (and wheel) you don't have to fit on the road! :lol: And for river crossings... You don't even worry about the bridge, you just go right through...

Here's my suggestion: Do you need to do anything at all? You don't see a lot of immaculate geared logging locomotives!

Yes, the light was an RGB LED I had lying around. If I can keep the light from coming through the boiler I might stick it in there somewhere.

Not the same can, because I don't feel like getting it from the barn, but same paint inside. 00CBD0A9-1A9A-44DE-8E8A-5ED9B2CCB904.jpeg I'm going to weather the boiler to give it a slightly rusty look, and I'm thinking about distressing the wood cladding, does anyone have any ideas on how I could do ...

Here's the boiler all glued together, before paint... AA0C4771-410D-4F9B-A736-E8D04309FCB7.jpeg 69BDF846-1C9B-4145-ADC6-7ACEEA7F46CB.jpeg 08E36632-ED91-4F5F-AF56-5A23B464BA54.jpeg And after being painted in Plasti-Kote Gray Rebuilder's Cast Finish. I couldn't find any brown spray paint, but I'm glad...

Of course you would Peter.

HugoFitz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:38 pm Mini Loco and capstan
https://youtu.be/PP1UA4ZxN6A?si=sO2y9g2HYKeQqQAA

No idea how to embed!

Take off the ?si and everything after and use [video][/video].

Yeah........... except it's not real. Definitely photoshopped.

drewzero1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:24 pm I seem to remember Grandpa telling me they used horses to haul the steam engine to the farms each year, so upon further research the one in our township was probably a much more modest affair like this:

That's interesting, never seen one of those.

It was bothering me so I have correctly embedded the video.

The video shows lots of smiling faces of volunteers operating the ploughs just for fun. I doubt it would have been the case at the time! Well, imagine each of these guys behind a horse drawn plow. All they have to do now is stand on the platform. And the engine only requires two, maybe three people...

Well most Case engines weren't that big... And remember, this is the biggest plow ever pulled by a traction engine, the loads this would have pulled historically would have been smaller. But if you aren't impressed by a 150 horsepower traction engine pulling a 44 bottom plow then you must be pretty ...

philipy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:58 am Then blowing the picture up to 'unrecognisable', there is cast lettering above the smokebox door, which appears to say "AVERY CO..".

I see now, I was looking at it on a small screened device.

I always found the big Avery "undermount" traction engines fascinating, but didn't know what they were as the only picture on Wikipedia of one isn't even in the Avery article! I like the unusual ones, like the Best, Lombard, Robey tandem, and lots of obscure makes I might never learn the n...