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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

Don tackles the Cowcatcher, Throttle and Sand domes of LBSC's Virginia.

B.M. Green shares his method for fabricating Flare Tube Fittings

Bill Yoder just released the latest edition of the 3/4 inch scale registry, which now totals 340 locomotives!

New Live Steam club forming in Washington, Fully Funded

Stan Galloway's 4 cylinder gas electric in 1 inch scale

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

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.

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

IBLS Patches

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Regional IBLS Secretaries

Standards and Recommended Practice

Wandering Locomotive Books

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