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: Beginners are the key to our future.
:: [[Louie Lettiere]]
: I don't care anything about steam engines, but I think that steam engine people are the nicest in the world.
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:: [http://www.steamup.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:introducing-the-live-steam-hobby&catid=34:the-cupola-view Steve Baker]
:: [http://www.steamup.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:introducing-the-live-steam-hobby&catid=34:the-cupola-view Steve Baker]
I suggest our motto should be "Build something today."
: [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=88096 Jim Leggett]


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I don't care anything about steam engines, but I think that steam engine people are the nicest in the world.
Un-named wife of a live steamer attending Alva Trook's meet, May 1956
What will you do this year to introduce someone to the live-steam hobby?
Steve Baker

I suggest our motto should be "Build something today."

Jim Leggett

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Meets

New and Old

Air Brakes à la Trainman4602

Making Your Own Patterns

Did you know...Frank Godwin was a renowned comic strip and advertising artist as well as a Live Steamer.

Don solves issues with the blowdown valve and anti-lift/expansion brackets on LBSC's Virginia

Bill Oberpriller's innovative "Minnie", a freelance 2-4-2 steam locomotive

Building a Hi-Railer

Bill Yoder updated his 3/4 inch scale registry of locomotives in North America, now totaling 257 locomotives!

Turning an Eccentric Hole in a 3-Jaw Chuck

Outdoor Model Railroad Runs on Real Steam

Did you know...Martin Lewis, founder of Little Engines, co-designed the first and only V8 engine for the Ford model T?

Bobber cabooses (or is that cabeeses?)

Nylatron, the wonder material

Live diesel

Fred Bohn's 3/4 inch scale Challenger

Eugene Paul and his "Puffin Billy"

Bill Van Brocklin's "Simplun"

Peregrinations of "Livvie"

A 3-1/2 inch gauge riding flatcar, 2 versions to choose from:

Building a Kitsap Caboose

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Regional IBLS Secretaries

Standards and Recommended Practice

Wandering Locomotive Books

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