Toy steam engine pictures

[Ingersoll444]

Here are some pictures of my little live steam tractor engine. Hard to see, but she is understeam at the time. :fing32:

[Ingersoll444]

A few more....

[HydroHarold]

Cooooo-Ellll! Paul, you need somthing to make a bunch of smoke! :D (MTH, smoke fluid?) What scale would you say that is?

[Splicer]

Nice dude. REAL nice!!! :fing02:

HH you can't see the steam because it is warm outside when the pics were taken. If it were a crisp February day you would see plumes of smoke (steam)...

[drbailey]

why does the top wheel and belt change from side to side ? is that a reverse mode or something like that ?
I was beginning to think that you took some of the pics in a mirror

[Brett-JD3320]

Cooooo-Ellll! Paul, you need somthing to make a bunch of smoke! :D (MTH, smoke fluid?) What scale would you say that is?


MTH Smoke fluid ehh... I guess you are a "Train guy" :)

Used to sell, repair, restore Lionel, MTH, KLine etc etc...

Inger,

Awesome steam machine!

[Ingersoll444]

why does the top wheel and belt change from side to side ? is that a reverse mode or something like that ?
I was beginning to think that you took some of the pics in a mirror



LOL!!!!!


Wonder if anyone would catch that. I didn't till after I posted them. Seems a little mixup in the old resizer program. :D :D



And you see a LITTLE steam in a few pic, and it was puffing some, it just did not realy copy over to the picture.



Its a fun toy though. I need to get a drive belt for it.[using a rubberband now] and the wisle stopped working, so I have to take a look at it. Probably just a flake of rust, or dirt or something.

[706owner]

Looks good, about what year was that made? I've seen a couple engines before but thats the first tractor I have seen.

[Ingersoll444]

I got it as a kid, dont remember when, but I would say mid 70's. They still make them though.

[Jim_WV]

Neat looking little machine Paul :fing32: , thanks for sharing the pics, never seen one like that before. I've seen some of Splicers stuff and always enjoyed the small scale train's, it's nice to have a hobby you can see actually work like you guys do :thanku:

[Mark / Ohio]

Neat little toy Paul!

I kept pestering my dad to get me a steam toy when I was a kid everytime we went to the hardware store that had them on display. But he bought a Lionel train set for me instead. So I did not complain too much. :trink40:

[cadetpwr]

I will soon have a nice G scale Accucraft Edrig four coupled live steam train, comes as a butane burner, but a new coal fired boiler is on order from a builder in the UK for delivery in late summer. This pic is of a buddies Edrig that has some custom detailing done, mine will be a bit plainer till I get time to work on it. She can run on both 45mm track or 32mm track, 32 being the correct gauge for 2' gauge modeling, the common gauge for UK narrow gauge modeling. Cheers Mike
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j285/cadetpwr/untitled.jpg

[Ingersoll444]

Very cool!!!! I like it!! You doing the coal conversion yourself? I would like to see a thred on that engine when you get it.

[cadetpwr]

Yepper, the coal boiler is bolt on kit, the boiler and all hardware will be fully machined and soldered together. I will be taking plenty of pics when I start the conversion later this summer. My locomotive should be here today when I get home from work. Cheers Mike

[tractormike]

Cool steam engine you have there :fing32: I would quess that it is built by mamond. I have one much like yours only mine is a steam roller. I got mine around 1966 or so and still have it. I used to use it to power things that I built with my erector set.

[cadetpwr]

Those little steam tractors are neat, I used to have the willisco version, its a bit nicer as the cylinder has proper valve motion instead of being an oscilating one. They are still made and can be purchased online from yesteryear toys if my memory serves me right. Both Mamod and Willisco are still in business and make the steam traction engine, roller and even trains. Cheers Mike

[cadetpwr]

Here is a pic of my 16mm narrow gauge steamer. I will try to get some pics of it steamed up in the next few days. Enjoy Mike http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j285/cadetpwr/edrig.jpg

[REW]

Thanks for sharing the pics jdmike and ingersoll444.

[cadetpwr]

Here is a pic of the Edrig all steamed up and making a nice plume running on blocks outdoors today. Mike
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j285/cadetpwr/edrig1.jpg

[Mark / Ohio]

That's neat Mike! Nothing like real steam coming from the stack. :fing32: