[steamtom1]

A short video of my Aster Duchess...

The Duchess approaching 150 mph scale speed.

My son-in-law Andrew's nephews and nieces came over from Lancaster to ride the trains, and see the Duchess run.

 

[Brian Tusin]

Nice video Tom I hope I can make it up to Canterburry in two weeks. I hope to see you there.
Brian

 

[Steve S.]

That is a beautiful train. Great bark at start up. Thanks for posting.

 

[dcplasterer]

Tom,

Well done - as usual!

Don

 

[Jerry Barnes]

WOW, that's nice, love that high ballin'! Ron Brown have his steam up, have not heard anything about it. Jerry

 

[weaverc]

Tom,
Once again you had way tooooo much fun. You need to limit yourself.....

 

[artgibson]

Man,
What a fantastic place to run a "Beautiful Train". Must be nice. Steve, You need to get another half acre sowe can
expand the railroad.

 

[Charles]

Ryan and I enjoyed another outstanding weekend of live steam. Good to have Tom and Tom at the meet. I do have some video to post (busy schedule this week).

Photos:



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A brief of highlights from this weekend.

Highballing the rails this past meet were
Ryan and Aster GS4 operating at cruising speed of 138 smph

Jeff with the Accucraft GS4 version 5 testing having now added upgraded ported cylinders: solo run 185smph and with full train 158 smph

Tom and the beautiful LMS with "flying Aster" speed of 158spmh

All the above on video yet to come.

 

[Alan in Adirondacks]

Charles and steamtom1,

Thanks for the posts. Wish I could have been there to see the action!

Best regards,

Alan

 

[David Rose]

Thanks for the photos... Looking forward to next weekends steam-up!

 

[steamtom1]

For a few photos click Here.

 

[seadawg]

Posted By David Rose on 09/04/2008 8:51 PM
Thanks for the photos... Looking forward to next weekends steam-up!




Next weekend, yes...

 

[Charles]

Here is the video of the GS4 v.5 retrofitted with cylinder upgrades.
Shop work prior in preparation for the run (next will be cross porting):
Original set vs. re-ported

Air testing the cylinder setup

This clip was timed at 30 sec per lap that equates to 158 smph. This setup is very impressive, I have never seen an engine with the also immediate throttle response, torque and ability to reach full speed in such a timely manner.



Reflecting back several years ago, when we reviewed this engine for SitG. Here you can see the original performance level vs. the GS4v.5 in the prior video.

 

[David Rose]

Charles,

Nice job. Unique stack talk and serious speed.

Dave- See you there!

 

[Guest]

Yup, i give it to you live steamer guys,/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/w00t.gif they really haul ass.../DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/blush.gif
Nick...