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A few years ago I took my newly-completed O-gauge Dickins (a James Senft design) to a local multi-gauge track, where a disagreement developed between my loco and another locomotive. As far as I am concerned, Dickins won.

I'm downsizing, and am unlikely ever to get to work on this. See my ad here: MODEL TRACTION ENGINE CASTINGS AND SUPPLIES | Hobbies & Crafts | Belleville | Kijiji Asking $CDN650.00. PM me if you're interested. item is in Ontario, Canada.

I'm not a very good machinist, I don't have a lot of money to spend, and I have a Craftex (Canadian Busy Bee equivalent of a Grizzly G4015) B2071 lathe/mill combination. With these three strikes against me I felt that it couldn't hurt to try adapting a cheap digital caliper to make a DRO for the...

I have all of the gears required for this project, brand new from Boston Gear and still in the packages, except for the pinion, which, though still brand new, is not a Boston gear, though it is an equivalent of the one specified by Harris. $USD300.00 plus mailing cost from Ontario, Canada will...

I have about 325 miscellaneous issues ranging from the 1950s to 2006. There are a couple of full year sets in there, too. These are my extras, free to a good home. I am in Ontario, Canada, near Belleville. Sorry, but no picking. You must take all. They're too heavy to mail, too, so you'll...

I don't post here often because I'm not much of a machinist, but for once I seem to have made some decent progress on something, so I thought that someone might be interested in what I've done. Here's a Philip Duclos Odds 'n' Ends engine in 1.5 scale that I acquired about two years ago...

I found this a couple of years ago, and have just refurbished it. You can read some of what I did in the YouTube video commentary. It's a nice little thing, and I thought it might interest someone here.

I tend to be a lurker on this forum, and I thoroughly enjoy reading of the accomplishments of those talented enough to create such works of art as the models that are featured here. Though I have made a few scratch-built engines in the past, they have been pretty rudimentary, and have not been...

Looking for one of these as serialized in Live Steam magazine starting in March, 1990, part-built, broken, neglected, complete, shelf queen, whatever. I'll look at them all till I find that perfect roller. Prefer something in North America, but again, will consider anything suitable.

Hi, all. I built this O gauge locomotive last winter, using a silver-soldered copper boiler instead of the brass called for in Dr. Senft's plans and finishing it for Christmas. Though I've run it successfully on air, I have yet to steam it: I read somewhere that these things have a...

First engine I ever made, and it even runs. From a plan by Tubal Cain. 1/8" bore by 1/8" stroke.

Hi, All, I'm kinda new to this site, but I have a real interest in model engineering and have built a Rudy beam engine and restored a Rudy Case traction engine wannabe. What I'd like to do now is build a Rudy "Copperhead" steam roller, but I can't find the plans anywhere. Can someone direct me...