Douglas E. Wagner

by Harry Dixon

The Miniature Locomotive, November-December 1954



The photo shown here is the 12 inch locomotive of Douglas E. Wagner and his father as co-partners. It has an A.S.M.E. coal fired boiler with a working pressure of 150 psi, 2-1/2 inch by 4 inch cylinders, 1-1/2 inch piston valves, 12-7/8 inch diameter drivers, and a high pressure lubricator. They have 700 feet of main line with one bridge, automatic block signal and water tower, with four cars as rolling stock which could be described as quite a miniature roalroad. mr. Wagner lives at 4514 West 72 Terrace, Kansas City 15, Missouri.