Bill Michaels

Steve Bratina posted on Chaski.org:

I would say that was built by Bill Michaels of Racine Wisconsin. It was for sale a few years back on one of the sites. If you can find the November 1948 Model Railroader, the story about Bill, his engines and his chum Walley Ribbick is in there. Walley's Hudson is in a case at the Tennessee Valley Railroad in Chattanooga. The picture in the magazine shows Walleys engine running with a B&O tender. He eventually built a NYC PT type tender for it.

I also think Bill took this engine to Danvers when they still had 1/2" track.

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Model Railroader

Bill Michael appeared on the cover of Model Railroader October 1948.

Bill Michaels inspects a live steam boiler. Cover page of Model Railroader magazine, October 1948.

A three page story appeared in November 1948, as follows.

External Links

• "Help identifying photos", Chaski.org