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== 1940 == | |||
From [[New_England_Live_Steamers#1940|New England Live Steamers]]: | |||
: Upper-right: -- 4-4-2 3-1/2" gague. [[Bill Van Brocklin|W. S. Van Brocklin, Jr.]], builder. [[Al Milburn]] running the engine with Billy as passenger. | |||
[[File:NELS Meet Danvers 1940.jpg|thumb|center|300px]] | |||
== 1949 == | == 1949 == | ||
[[File:LesterFriendsHomeShop Davners1949 AWLeggett.jpg|thumb|center|400px|[[Lester Friend]]'s home shop, Danvers, Mass., 1949. Front right | [[File:LesterFriendsHomeShop Davners1949 AWLeggett.jpg|thumb|center|400px|[[Lester Friend]]'s home shop, Danvers, Mass., 1949. Front left to right: [[Arthur Wegner|Art Wegner]], Ray Peck, Lester Friend's daughter. Bending over: Lester Friend. At right behind: [[Al Milburn]]. Photo by A.W. Leggett.]] | ||
== 1950 == | == 1950 == | ||
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[[File:Danvers50 billy leggett layout watercolour.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Bill Leggett admiring [[Al Milburn]]'s Atlantic (top) at BLS Meet at Danvers, MA, 1950. Photo by A.W. Leggett, provided by Jim Leggett.]] | [[File:Danvers50 billy leggett layout watercolour.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Bill Leggett admiring [[Al Milburn]]'s Atlantic (top) at BLS Meet at Danvers, MA, 1950. Photo by A.W. Leggett, provided by Jim Leggett.]] | ||
* [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90079&p=212684&hilit=Milburn#p212684 [[Keith Taylor]] posted on <i>Chaski.org</i>]: | |||
: [[Al Milburn]] built a beautiful 3/4" scale Atlantic where everything was hacked from solid. The drivers were sawn out by hand with a jeweler's saw, then filed to the correct profile...then sand blasted so they would look like castings! | |||
== 1951 == | == 1951 == | ||
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From [[Youd Better Not Call Them Toys]]: | From [[Youd Better Not Call Them Toys]]: | ||
[[File:AC Milburn Atlantic Progress May 1951.jpg|thumb|right| | [[File:AC Milburn Atlantic Progress May 1951.jpg|thumb|right|300px|From "You'd Better Not Call Them Toys"]] | ||
: Many men who didn't know a drill press from a grape press until they started their first loco have found that the thousands of hours of trial-and-error shop work have made them competent machinists. One such is [[Al Milburn|A. C. Milburn]] of Milford, Connecticut. Ten years ago he started work on a 1/2-inch scale freight engine in his spare time from a 4,000-foot coal shaft where he was a digger, today Milburn is a well-paid toolmaker-thanks to live steam. | : Many men who didn't know a drill press from a grape press until they started their first loco have found that the thousands of hours of trial-and-error shop work have made them competent machinists. One such is [[Al Milburn|A. C. Milburn]] of Milford, Connecticut. Ten years ago he started work on a 1/2-inch scale freight engine in his spare time from a 4,000-foot coal shaft where he was a digger, today Milburn is a well-paid toolmaker-thanks to live steam. | ||
From [[IBLS Journal 1951]]: | |||
: The former speed record of 26 MPH set at Danvers some years ago by Norm Robinson & his 3/4 inch scale Fayette, or our friend [[Al Milburn]]'s record of 22 MPH on his own former home loop with his 2-1/2 inch gauge Lucy-Ann 4-8-4, would very likely raise the hair on the necks of these California steam boys. These records were watch timed and are actual miles per hour, not scale MPH. | |||
== 3/4" Atlantic == | |||
[http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90079 Keith Taylor wrote]: | |||
: [[Al Milburn]] built a beautiful 3/4 inch scale Atlantic where everything was hacked from solid. The drivers were sawn out by hand with a jeweler's saw, then filed to the correct profile...then sand blasted so they would look like castings! | |||
== 1960's == | |||
[https://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=109746 Mark Bassini wrote on <i>Chaski.org</i>]: | |||
: The 1 inch scale 870 built by [[Al Milburn]] & once owned by Pierre Mauer & then by my father, now in my possession. | |||
<gallery widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="2"> | |||
File:Al Milburn No 870 May 1961 unknown.jpg|Al Milburn's No 870 4-4-0 in 1 inch scale. Note that [[Brenton Barnfather]]'s tote box is in the background. Photo was taken May 1961 at unknown location. | |||
File:Al Milburn No 870 May 1961.jpg | |||
File:AlMilburn PVLS circa1960 SteveBratina.jpg|Adrian Buyse and [[Al Milburn]] with Milburn's New York Central and Hudson River Railroad 870 at [[Pioneer Valley Live Steamers|PVLS]]. Milburn built #870 from solid stock. Circa 1960. Photo by Steve Bratina. | |||
File:AlMilburns NYC870 PVLS1965.jpg|[[Al Milburn]]'s NYC&HR RR #870 at [[Pioneer Valley Live Steamers]], 1965. Photo by Sandiapaul. | |||
</gallery> | |||
== External Links == | |||
* [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=99962&hilit=Milburn "The Norman Mottshaw NYC Hudson in 3/4" Scale", <i>Chaski.org</i>] | |||
Latest revision as of 06:51, 20 September 2020
1940
From New England Live Steamers:
- Upper-right: -- 4-4-2 3-1/2" gague. W. S. Van Brocklin, Jr., builder. Al Milburn running the engine with Billy as passenger.
1949
Lester Friend's home shop, Danvers, Mass., 1949. Front left to right: Art Wegner, Ray Peck, Lester Friend's daughter. Bending over: Lester Friend. At right behind: Al Milburn. Photo by A.W. Leggett.
1950
From IBLS Journal 1950:
- Al Milburn's cut from the solid Atlantic a beautiful job to see.
Bill Leggett admiring Al Milburn's Atlantic (top) at BLS Meet at Danvers, MA, 1950. Photo by A.W. Leggett, provided by Jim Leggett.
- Keith Taylor posted on Chaski.org:
- Al Milburn built a beautiful 3/4" scale Atlantic where everything was hacked from solid. The drivers were sawn out by hand with a jeweler's saw, then filed to the correct profile...then sand blasted so they would look like castings!
1951
From Youd Better Not Call Them Toys:
- Many men who didn't know a drill press from a grape press until they started their first loco have found that the thousands of hours of trial-and-error shop work have made them competent machinists. One such is A. C. Milburn of Milford, Connecticut. Ten years ago he started work on a 1/2-inch scale freight engine in his spare time from a 4,000-foot coal shaft where he was a digger, today Milburn is a well-paid toolmaker-thanks to live steam.
From IBLS Journal 1951:
- The former speed record of 26 MPH set at Danvers some years ago by Norm Robinson & his 3/4 inch scale Fayette, or our friend Al Milburn's record of 22 MPH on his own former home loop with his 2-1/2 inch gauge Lucy-Ann 4-8-4, would very likely raise the hair on the necks of these California steam boys. These records were watch timed and are actual miles per hour, not scale MPH.
3/4" Atlantic
- Al Milburn built a beautiful 3/4 inch scale Atlantic where everything was hacked from solid. The drivers were sawn out by hand with a jeweler's saw, then filed to the correct profile...then sand blasted so they would look like castings!
1960's
Mark Bassini wrote on Chaski.org:
- The 1 inch scale 870 built by Al Milburn & once owned by Pierre Mauer & then by my father, now in my possession.
Al Milburn's No 870 4-4-0 in 1 inch scale. Note that Brenton Barnfather's tote box is in the background. Photo was taken May 1961 at unknown location.
Adrian Buyse and Al Milburn with Milburn's New York Central and Hudson River Railroad 870 at PVLS. Milburn built #870 from solid stock. Circa 1960. Photo by Steve Bratina.
Al Milburn's NYC&HR RR #870 at Pioneer Valley Live Steamers, 1965. Photo by Sandiapaul.
