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Chuck Balmer’s  3/4 scale 2-6-6-6 Allegheny Locomotive

 

 

May, 2008:  The photos show a front  and side view of the entire chassis, a side view of the rear 6 wheel truck and a side view of the front 2 wheel pilot truck. The valve gear supports are actually the wooden patterns that have yet to be cast. I hope to have them finished sometime this summer. The frames are fully welded and I am getting ready to fininsh silver soldering the steam passages in the fabricated cylinders. Once the remaining castings are finished, they will be machined and work will begin making the 4 baker valve gear assemblies and the 4 sets of connecting rods. The 12 drive wheels have been cast and machining them will begin soon.

 

Since I am still a couple of years away from finishing, I will send updated photos as the work progresses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Harrod

 

This is a fun project I made with a motor salvaged from an inkjet printer.
The driver motors (not the stepper motors) on these printers are very high
quality and make very good generators. I can get all the broken printers I want from a
local printer repair shop. This little motor is belted to the second smallest Mamod stationary engine. It generates about 1-2 volts at 300 milli-amps, enough to light a penlight bulb or a single Christmas tree light bulb. I have made a very impressive presentation at our elementary school on energy and power generation.

 

 

 

 

 

Denis Larrick

 

 2.5" scale narrow gauge caboose based upon the eight wheel, 17 foot Class 4 caboose on the D&RG and Rio Grande Southern. It is a plywood toolbox with removable roof, sheathed in strips of salvaged paneling from my living room.   The side shown to the right is painted to resemble 1880 practice, the other side is painted in early 1900’s style.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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