July / August 2015 Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading VOLUME 49 NUMBER 4 FEATURES Steam on the Michigan AuSable Valley Railroad NEIL KNOPF Spirted Away – A New Home for Traverse City's 4-4-2 CLOVER MCKINLEY Building an Irregular Locomotive Cylinder Assembly KAZUO KUMAMOTO Steam's Next Generation – Staying Upright DENIS M. LARRICK Rio Grande K-27 [...]
Live Steam May / June 2015 Current Issue VOLUME 49 NUMBER 3 FEATURES Restoring Two Antique Model Steam Engines TIM STRAW Building a Steam-powered Railroad Wrecking Crane – Part 3 BOB REEDY Mr. Doepke's Yardbird MICHAEL BANKS Rio Grande K-27 – Part 11 KOZO HIRAOKA The WWII Liberty Ship S.S. John W. Brown's Steam Powered [...]
Live Steam March / April 2015 Current Issue VOLUME 49 NUMBER 2 FEATURES The WWII Liberty Ship S.S. John W. Brown's Steam Powered Plant T. PARKINSON Building a Steam-powered Railroad Wrecking Crane – Part 2 BOB REEDY Wooden Gondolas in a Weekend BENJAMIN MAGGI How to Make Piston Rings – Working With Gray Cast Iron [...]
Live Steam January / February 2015 Current Issue VOLUME 49 NUMBER 1 FEATURES Steam Powered Crane Part 1 by BOB REEDY Water Glasses for My Berkshire by GENE LURWIG How to Make Piston Rings - Working with Gray Cast Iron - Part 1 BY DAVE MOORE The Second Phase: Integrating 3D CAD into Our World BY DR. BILL ZINGHEIM [...]
LocoParts is now owned by Dute Machine & Locomotive Works. LocoParts has changed hands after many years of quality service to the live steam hobby. Don Orr has decided to pass on the torch to Jeffrey Dute of Dute Machine and Locomotive Works, LLC, as the new owner and operator. The ownership transfer of LocoParts [...]
A review of Peter’s Railway Holiday at Lunan Bay By Christopher Vine Just released by Christopher Vine is his latest offering in his “Peter’s Railway” series of paperback books. This one is subtitled Holiday at Lunan Bay and is the ninth in the series. The storyline is geared to the ages of 6-12 years and follows [...]
A review of Starting in Steam – An Introduction to Live-steam Model Railroading By Scott E. McDonald, Carl Weaver and staff There are an extraordinary number of publications – from the 1830s to the present day – that describe the use of steam for propulsion ranging from traction engines to steamboats; from factory engines to railroad [...]
A review of The fire burns much better… By J.J.G. Koopmans by Neil Knopf The second edition of J.J.G. Koopmans’ scientific treatise is now available for all serious students of the steam locomotive, particularly those interested in combustion engineering. The author delves deeply into the intricacies of reliable and economical firing of steam locomotive boilers. Stationary steam [...]
The Walt Disney Family Museum is pleased to present All Aboard: A Celebration of Walt’s Trains, on view from November 13, 2014 through February 9, 2015. This comprehensive exhibition explores the influence that railroading had on Walt Disney’s life and work. It also tells the story of how his railroading legacy lives on to this day [...]
by Nick Dawes Through the courtesy of Heritage Auctions, we would like to present this interesting slice of steam-related, personal history… As Vice President of Special Collections for Heritage Auctions, the world’s third largest auctioneer, something new and challenging is always coming up. Some challenges you want to take on, most you do not, [...]