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building a steam loco from scratch

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building a steam loco from scratch
Posted by ellron on Friday, March 14, 2008 4:13 AM

hi to all new to here and this hobby

i am looking for plans for  building a steam locomotive

can any one help me out or point me in the right direction

i have access to lathe and milling machines only want to build a small scale model

thank you from ellron (liam) 

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  • From: O'Fallon, MO
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Posted by Lateral-G on Friday, March 14, 2008 7:45 AM
 ellron wrote:

hi to all new to here and this hobby

i am looking for plans for  building a steam locomotive

can any one help me out or point me in the right direction

i have access to lathe and milling machines only want to build a small scale model

thank you from ellron (liam) 

 

In the past (early 80's I think) Model Railroader ran a series of articles on scratch building a brass loco. You may be able to pick these issues up from Kalmbach. In fact a search of their website gives this:

http://kalmbachcatalog.stores.yahoo.net/mrpdf034.html

Not sure if it's the same article I recall from my youth but it looks pretty close.

-G- 

 

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