VOLUME 50 NUMBER 6 FEATURES 60 Years of Los Angeles Live Steamers – Past, Present, and Future MIKE MASSEE Building Victoria – Part 3 – A Miniature Model Steam Launch LES PROPER Saving Skookum – Her Story and a Commentary on Her Life and Times Part 3 - Technology of Then and Now DR. BILL [...]
VOLUME 50 NUMBER 5 FEATURES Ernie Beskowiney and his Canadian National 4-8-2 Mountain MIKE MASSEE Building Victoria – A Miniaure Model Steam Launch Part Two LES PROPER Adventures in Car Building: The 3" Scale Bobber Caboose Part Two Finishing the Bobber MIKE MASSEE Exploring a “Teaching Model” Steam Engine TIM STRAW Building the New “Tom [...]
VOLUME 50 NUMBER 4 FEATURES Building Victoria – A Miniature Model Steam Launch LES PROPER Adventures in Car Building: The 3" Scale Bobber Caboose – Part 1 The Frame and Body MIKE MASSEE Building a Locomotive with Eccentric – Driven Valves KAZUO KUMAMOTO Building the New "Tom Thumb" – Part 20 Crankshaft BILL SHIELDS AND [...]
VOLUME 50 NUMBER 3 FEATURES Vertical Hot Air Engine JERRY R. GROVES The Statfold Barn Railway MIKE SAVAGE AT&SF 5000 versus UP 4014 SAM D. TEAGUE Saving Skookum – Her Story and a Commentary on Her Life, Times and the Technology of Then and Now DR. BILL ZINGHEIM Building the New "Tom Thumb" – Part [...]
VOLUME 50 NUMBER 2 FEATURES Vertical Hot Air Engine JERRY R. GROVES Using PTFE in Live Steam Applications JAN-ERIC NYSTRÖM Rio Grande K-27 – Part 15B KOZO HIRAOKA Cohunu Koala Park Railway and Steam Museum KEITH WATSON Building the New "Tom Thumb" – Part 18 Piston, Rod, Crosshead and Guide BILL SHIELDS AND TIM VAUGHAN [...]
VOLUME 50 NUMBER 1 FEATURES Rebuilding a Small Steam Engine – The Heavy Horizontal TIM STRAW Soo Line Combination Car – Building an MCC Kit RAY GROSSER Live Steam Gauge Marking MARTIN J. GEARING Trees and Rails – Growing a Forest with a Railroad RICK HENDERSON WITH LARRY TAYLOR Rothwell Park Railroad BOB SCHAFER Rio [...]
VOLUME 49 NUMBER 6 FEATURES Train Mountain Triennial 2015 NEIL KNOPF Medford Railroad Park NEIL KNOPF Live Steam Gauge Marking MARTIN J. GEARING The Penfold Papers – A Look at Steam Engineering of the Past JONATHAN PALTERMAN Building a Steam-powered Railroad Wrecking Crane – Part 6 BOB REEDY Rio Grande K-27 – Part 14 KOZO [...]
VOLUME 49 NUMBER 5 FEATURES Chime Whistles for Scale Steam Locomotives KEITH STERNBERG The Grand Finish of the Eagle Point Railroad RICK HENDERSON Seat-of-the-pants Slide Valve Setting – The Easy Eyeball Method DENIS M. LARRICK Building a 1-1/2" Scale Wood Refrigerator Car RON SHUPARD, SR. Steam Powered Railroad Wrecking Crane – Part 5 BOB REEDY [...]
Don't miss the July/August 2015 issue! Now that vacations are on everyone’s mind, take a moment to find out how you can improve your video filming techniques! Going to the Train Mountain Triennial or another major track meet? Read in the July/August 2015 issue how Jan-Eric Nystrom plans his filming storylines. With a few of [...]
by Neil Knopf Several days ago, I was reading of promotions put on by the Union Pacific Railroad. Much to my surprise, there on the “project photos” page (http://www.up.com/whatdidyoubuild/photos.shtml) was a photo of a locomotive I thought I recognized. A quick email was sent to Chris Brew of Vancouver, Washington, to see if his was [...]