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Picked up this Bowman loco, 1930`s I recon.
It used a alcohol six wick burner with a big tank under the cab.
Things went really good setting it up which is always a bad sign fired the sucker up and the tank got hot and spewed alcohol all over the place, big fire and had to put it out with the ire extinguisher.
Won`t be using that again and luckily it wasn`t on the wood layout.
We have now made a new burner that looks like the original but uses Esbit tablets and safe.
These loco`s are known for having power and has flown off the track a couple times which would be disastrous with the meth burner.
Here`s a vid of the new burner and a run.
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Thanks Grizz, yep this loco really shines in a big garden railroad type setting, maybe next summer I`ll get one built but I`m going to move first.
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Thanks pard, it`s a challenge getting everything just right to get them running right.
There isn`t any throttle on it so it`s a balance between heat and load.
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Thanks guys, we`re still tinkering trying to maintain enough heat for a long run.
Good to see you too Nath.
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When I was very young, my Mom wanted to ride a steam train that ran (at least) between Cambridge, and Columbus Ohio.....I can hardly remember any of it except how nice the big, Black porter was to me, and the sounds of the steam when it took off. Seems like we stopped in every little town on the way.
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BlaineG wrote:When I was very young, my Mom wanted to ride a steam train that ran (at least) between Cambridge, and Columbus Ohio.....I can hardly remember any of it except how nice the big, Black porter was to me, and the sounds of the steam when it took off. Seems like we stopped in every little town on the way.
Yep it`s a real thrill to ride on a real steamer, don`t you have some restored RR`s in your area ya can ride on ?
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To my dying day I will always regret turning down a ride in the cab of the steam locomotive our neighbor The Train Engineer stopped in front of our houses where the tracks ran down the middle of the street to give me & his daughter a ride... But being six years old I got skeert when the thing gave off a belch of steam and wanted my Momma
Cool stuff Pitchy!
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BlaineG wrote:When I was very young, my Mom wanted to ride a steam train that ran (at least) between Cambridge, and Columbus Ohio.....I can hardly remember any of it except how nice the big, Black porter was to me, and the sounds of the steam when it took off. Seems like we stopped in every little town on the way.
Yep it`s a real thrill to ride on a real steamer, don`t you have some restored RR`s in your area ya can ride on ?
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Pitchy, too cool. Hope you can give a demo and I'll let you shoot my new toys when I get back in March. I'll even let you out shoot me! Todd
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Really nice set-up. There is something about scaled down trains and railroads that has fascinated me all my life.
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Thanks guys, we got 38 laps out of her this morning
Blain that looks like a fun place to go.
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God Bless America.
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I have ridden the train between Silverton and Durango. It is a steam locomotive pulling it. Steam engines are fascinating.
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Thanks gents, next spring I`m planning on making a out door RR big enough so they can breath a little.
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fired the sucker up and the tank got hot and spewed alcohol all over the place, big fire and had to put it out with the ire extinguisher. 
To my dying day I will always regret turning down a ride in the cab of the steam locomotive our neighbor The Train Engineer stopped in front of our houses where the tracks ran down the middle of the street to give me & his daughter a ride... But being six years old I got skeert when the thing gave off a belch of steam and wanted my Momma 
