Jan-Eric Nyström

Jan-Eric Nyström (born July 24, 1951 Helsinki) is a Finnish animator and film maker. Since the 1970's he has animated several award-winning children's films (including "The Kidnapping", 1974), and hundreds of cartoon animations and commercials.

Jan-Eric completed his first live steam project in 2002, a Baldwin 4-4-0 live steam locomotive in 1-1/2 inch scale. He is a contributing editor for Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading.



Baldwin 3003
Download "Jan-Eric Nystrom's Baldwin 3003" - An IBLS Wandering Locomotive Book (PDF, Version 2014/02/14)

Table of Contents


 * Preface
 * Introduction
 * Vintage pictures of the Baldwin 4-4-0s
 * Track Design
 * Old Drawings from 1875
 * Driving Wheels
 * Cutting, Soldering, Welding the Frame
 * Front Bogie
 * Rods & Brasses
 * Eccentrics & Bearings
 * Builder's & Number Plates
 * Axle Boxes & Suspension
 * Perspective Correction of Snapshot
 * Links by Grinding, Hangers, Rockers etc
 * Crosshead Pump
 * Tender Pump
 * Reversing Shaft, Levers etc
 * Eccentric Straps
 * Casting - First Attempt
 * Successful Casting
 * Machining the Wheels
 * Quartering the Drivers
 * Driver Assembly
 * Building the Cab
 * Fabrication of the Cylinders
 * Piston and Crosshead
 * Slide Valves
 * It's Taking Shape!
 * Cowcatcher
 * Tender Stuff
 * The Smokestack
 * First Test
 * A Few Burning Thoughts
 * The Tender is Taking Shape
 * Sievert Burner
 * Propane Car
 * New Valve Plates
 * Boiler Making
 * Hydro Testing
 * Water Gauge
 * Safety Valve
 * Superheater
 * Improved Burners
 * First Steam!
 * Slight Technical Problems
 * Steam Domes
 * Loco Stretcher
 * Another 3003 Model
 * New Burners
 * Improved Superheater
 * Autopsy of a Loco
 * Photo Shopping

Video of Jan-Eric's Baldwin 3003 in August 2003, just one year after "first steam". 9_drVwNPKds

10 Wheeler
Letter from Jan-Eric Nyström to Kenneth Shattock, 6 February 2016:


 * I thought that you might want to have a picture of my latest LS loco, the 999 Ten-wheeler, so I enclose one.


 * I built the loco in 2006-2012, and it won the "Best of Show" at the 2015 Helsinki "Model Expo". The loco weighs about 400 lbs, the tender about 100 lbs. I usually run it at our Railway Museum during special event days every summer.


 * All the best from Finland - now it's only just below freezing, but a couple of weeks ago it was -20C/-5F !


 * Jan-Eric