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== Features ==
== Features ==
'''[[3/4 Inch Scale Registry|Bill Yoder just released the latest edition of the 3/4 inch scale registry, which now totals 415 locomotives!]]'''
'''[[Bill_Van_Brocklin#Speed_Record_on_Number_22|Man attempts to break steam locomotive speed record]]'''


'''[[Bill Van Brocklin|Did you know...Bill Van Brocklin built 41 locomotives, and they are numbered consecutively from #1 to #41?]]'''
'''[[Bill Van Brocklin|Did you know...Bill Van Brocklin built 41 locomotives, and they are numbered consecutively from #1 to #41?]]'''
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'''[[Roll_Models_Industrial_Railworks#RMI-25_Profile|RMI Railworks has released the RMI-25 Specification, which recommends using a taller flange for 2.5 inch and 3-3/4 inch scale equipment on 7.5 inch and 7.25 inch gauge track]]'''
'''[[Roll_Models_Industrial_Railworks#RMI-25_Profile|RMI Railworks has released the RMI-25 Specification, which recommends using a taller flange for 2.5 inch and 3-3/4 inch scale equipment on 7.5 inch and 7.25 inch gauge track]]'''
'''[[3/4 Inch Scale Registry|Bill Yoder just released the latest edition of the 3/4 inch scale registry, which now totals 383 locomotives!]]'''


'''[[Kenneth Shattock|Kenneth V. Shattock, North American Secretary, passed away 6 May 2017]]'''
'''[[Kenneth Shattock|Kenneth V. Shattock, North American Secretary, passed away 6 May 2017]]'''
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'''[[Getting Started|Major Douglas T. Peck suggests how to "Get Started" in Live Steam]]'''
'''[[Getting Started|Major Douglas T. Peck suggests how to "Get Started" in Live Steam]]'''
'''[[Old Fashioned Lamp Case|Dwight Durkee builds an 1870's Steam Locomotive Oil Lamp]]'''


== IBLS Patches ==
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Is it possible the founder of The International Brotherhood of Live Steamers would have embraced this medium had it existed in 1932? Carl Purinton surely would have set up a web site, don't you think?
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Bill Yoder just released the latest edition of the 3/4 inch scale registry, which now totals 415 locomotives!

Man attempts to break steam locomotive speed record

Did you know...Bill Van Brocklin built 41 locomotives, and they are numbered consecutively from #1 to #41?

The Martin Lewis Water Gauge

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RMI Railworks has released the RMI-25 Specification, which recommends using a taller flange for 2.5 inch and 3-3/4 inch scale equipment on 7.5 inch and 7.25 inch gauge track

Kenneth V. Shattock, North American Secretary, passed away 6 May 2017

Injectors - A Blessing or a Curse?

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Carl Purinton and B&M No 3240

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Major Douglas T. Peck suggests how to "Get Started" in Live Steam

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