Bill Shipp of Oakville, Ontario, sets some wagons behind his scratch-build Merddin Emrys Fairlies. The prototype runs in Wales. |
A close-up of Shipp's scratch-built Fairlies ... though it has two chimneys, it has but one boiler with a U-shaped flu that comes out both ends. Shipp worked from scale drawings. |
Charlie Mynhier scratch-built this radio-controlled 2-4-4. |
A full view of Charlie's loco -- it's radio controlled and his son is at the joystick. |
A closeup of Richard Finlayson's coal-fired loco. |
Jim Hadden of Park City, Utah, double-heads two of his scratch-built locos from the Poison Creek Loco Works. |
Kevin O'Connor of Sacramento takes the first, non-production model of Aster's Allegheny out for a spin. Track Marshall Paul Quirk, of Springtown, Pa., looks on. |
A closer look at the front of the new Aster Allegheny ... |
... and a closer look at the back of the new Aster Allegheny (almost too big for one picture). |
Kevin O'Connor paces the Aster Allegheny during its run. |
Charlie Mynhier's 0-8-0 steam turbine scratch-built loco. It made a most unusual sound. |
Another look at Charlie's steam-turbine. |
A steam-powered trolley. Carl Berg of Attica, N.Y., built this with a marine engine and it uses a Bachmann trolleycar body. |
A front view of Carl Berg's steam trolley. The marker lights and the headlamp are powered by a battery lashed to the inside of the roof. |
David Martin's Aster Atlantic Grasshopper pulls an era-correct consist. |