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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

• Small Scales Meet Mid-June 2017 - A 1" California Ramble that will include the American River Navigation and Railway Nevada County track, Southern California Live Steamers, Golden Gate Live Steamers, ending at Los Angeles Live Steamers and a few surprises in other scales along the way.
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New and Old

Bill Van Brocklin's Union Nuts & Fittings Chart

How To Write An Article For Your Favorite Magazine

"Live Steam", Popular Science, February 1941

Bill Yoder's 3/4 inch scale registry now totals 300 locomotives! Can you help Bill identify these locomotives?

See the amazing O gauge live steam locomotives of Roll Neff

Robert A. Day's 30 inch gauge Baldwin Locomotives

An engine stand long enough to hold a Mikado!

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

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

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Standards and Recommended Practice

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Wandering Locomotive Books

• Winton Brown Engineering Data
• Koster's Miniature Railroad Supplies
• Lee Wright and Lee's Trains
• Jan-Eric Nystrom's Baldwin 3003
• Bill Yoder's 3/4 Inch Scale Registry

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