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Hello all, I'm Gerry, the guy that posted the Gerry's beam engine design way back when. I also get involved in making HO scale models of Civil war era locomotives. I have a friend who produces historically accurate brass models of these locomotives in short runs for those involved in the...

For those of you interested in beam type steam engines, I have posted a set of drawings. Many thanks to rake60 for organizing them onto the download area in the menu for me. If you go to download them please notice that there are two pages. You will probably need them both or the engine will...

Back in a former career, I worked for a company called Leitelt Iron Works. They used to build and repair boilers as well as mill engines in the distant past. In the course of our boiler service work, we were contracted by an insurance company to forensically dismantle and remove from the...

Hi folks, I've kind of muddled my way through posting some jpegs but need some help with pdf files. I am working up a set of plans for a new beam engine. (see the "what are you doing today" thread in the break room.) I am extracting .dwg files from my inventor model which I can also save as .pdf...

Hi all, I found this board looking for steam engine drawings & photos. My main engine interests are marine steam & early American 4-4-0 locomotives. I "grew up" working for 14 years as a project engineer for a large engineerring job shop which did a lot of boiler repair work as well. We worked...

Hi, I'm a new guy on this board and wonder if anyone out there knows of any foundry still doing one-off castings from loose patterns suitable for model engines. We have a foundry in Greenville, Michigan which does one off gray iron yet but they like to do 100 pound minimum. That would be kind...

I have been in drafting & mechanical engineering for about 40 years. Until recently I owned an engineering company which builds wooden pallet recycling machinery. I use AutoCad & Autodesk 3D Inventor. I've got a 6" X 18 Atlas lathe, a Rockwell R8 vertical mill (baby bridgeport) and an 11" Logan...