Diamondhead02 -- Thursday


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.

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.