RE: travaling with a locomotive (Dawn B. here) David - while indeed married to Jeff Young, I am still legally Dawn Brightwell. : ) I had flown with my locos, carry-on, many times without incident... Then this past September when flying from Toronto to Seattle they flat-out refused to allow my Roundhouse Katie to go carry-o...... 18 Nov 2012 07:03 AM Live Steam (0)

RE: Thread Size on Roundhouse Stanchions 8 BA... 29 Oct 2012 12:39 PM Live Steam (0)

RE: Coal Firing and Plastic Ties? To answer you question- no. Coal fired locos typically have an ash pan beneath the grate. This helps to defect any downward radiant heat, if there is any. Once and a while, a cinder may drop to the ties and occasionally melt into tie. I have run many miles on both the garden railway and the portable...... 08 Sep 2012 04:07 PM Live Steam (0)

RE: SUCTION FAN WIRING Just cut the wire between goes between the slide switch and the battery terminal to splice in the third battery. The single "C" battery holder is from Radio Shack and comes with positive and negative leads. Solder in the new wires such that the batteries are negative of one to positive of the next.... 05 Jul 2012 12:08 PM Live Steam (0)

RE: Welsh coal? Where to buy!? Dan:I used some of the Australian Char you gave me in my 16mm scale Shawe Fowler. It works just fine- you just get more fly ash than with Welsh Coal.With Cole's supply depleted and the number of coal-fired locos increasing, I sense there is a business opportunity for someone on this side of the ...... 22 Feb 2012 06:37 AM Live Steam (0)

RE: Does Anyone Run LS Indoors? When running alcohol engines on rollers, we always do so in a large shallow metal pan, one that can hold well more than the contents of the alcohol tank. That way, if something goes amiss, the split fuel can be contained to the pan and more easily dealt with if it should ignite. Again, a towel in a ...... 05 Feb 2012 09:05 AM Live Steam (0)

RE: Does Anyone Run LS Indoors? Yes, as Tom Bowdler states, we do run live steam inside and quite often in fact, and have done so safely for over 25 years. We run both butane and alcohol fired locomotives- but refrain from firing up the coal fired ones. In fact, some very old alcohol fired locomotives were designed for indoor runn...... 05 Feb 2012 07:25 AM Live Steam (0)

RE: Diamondhead "Drinking congregation"?.  That would be the sacred gathering of the Association 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers - North American contingent, with the end of table cooler graciously provided each year by the Wednesday Night Water Boilers from Canada.  ... 28 Dec 2011 02:18 PM Live Steam (0)

RE: IMAX Rocky Mountain Express We saw this in Toronto a few weeks ago. In my view, it ranks among the best footage of steam locomotive in action I have ever seen, and shot in some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in the world. It also was a very good documentary on the building of the C.P.R. Makes you wonder how many IMAX...... 13 Nov 2011 10:38 AM Live Steam (0)

RE: Steam in the Garden LLC Dan: It might be worthwhile to update the folks here regarding addresses, etc., to send content contributions for the magazine and subscription renewals, etc. Regards, Jeff... 12 Feb 2011 07:05 AM Live Steam (0)