Ed Cook of Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada, running his scratch-built 0-4-0 Camelback; it's fired with a propane tank in the trailing car. |
Barry Harper of Pepper Pike, Ohio, adjusts his Stirling Single, complete with consist. |
Steve Leermakers of Durango, Colo., tinkers with his Catatonk 24T Shay. It had come fresh out of the box and this was its first run. |
John Thompson and Vance Bass set about firing Thompson's coal-fired BAGRS Project Loco. Thompson has taken a Midwest boiler and rebrazed it with silver and built a firebox beneath.
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A close-up of the Thompson coal-fired BAGRS Project Loco. |
An even closer look at the works of the BAGRS coal-fired loco ... |
A scratch-built 0-4-0 reminiscent of the Argyle Bantam and the Berkeley Cricket. Maybe it's a "Bicket." Jim Sanders of Indianapolis says he thought about the engine a lot before construction, which took him a couple of months. |
A closeup of the gear works of Jim Sanders' scratch-built. |
A close look at the backhead of Jim Sanders' scratch-built; from the left, the gas tank, a water glass, a pressure gauge and the displacement lubricator. |
Abe Cohen of East Patchogue, N.Y., looks over the shoulder of Tom Rowe of Huber Heights, Ohio, as Tom starts firing his Aster Daylight. |
Vance Bass' Accucraft C-16 with the wooden cab kit from Vance's Albuquerque, N.M.-based company. |