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== New and Old ==
== New and Old ==
'''[[C.J._Hull#Where_to_Get_It|C.J. Hull shares secrets on finding raw material]]'''


'''Bill Van Brocklin's [[Union Nuts & Fittings|Union Nuts & Fittings Chart]]'''
'''Bill Van Brocklin's [[Union Nuts & Fittings|Union Nuts & Fittings Chart]]'''

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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
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New and Old

C.J. Hull shares secrets on finding raw material

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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