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...acks radiate from "steaming rack" with 10-wheeler on deck. Tracks fit 3/4-inch and 1-inchers]] ...ale model of a full-sized system. Its "live steam" locomotive operates at scale speeds of up to 85 miles per hour but actually this amounds to only 10 mile

...CliffBlackstaffe American.jpg|"End of a long day". This is a 44 year old 4-4-0 built by [[Cliff Blackstaffe]]. It is on a private track on Vancouver Isl ...taking a turn on the [[Golden Gate Live Steamers|GGLS]] track behind his 0-4-0. From "The North American Live Steamers", January 1956.

''An 0-4-0 Switcher of Simple Design in 3/4 inch Scale'' ...4 inch sheet brass. Cut roughly to outline, drill the two bolt holes 9/64 inch, chuck and bore out to 1-1/16 for now. Saw in half, bolt together, rechuck

''An 0-4-0 Switcher of Simple Design in 3/4 inch Scale'' ...drill and drill 3/8 inch for axle, open out with boring tool and ream 7/16 inch to finish size. Follow the same operations for all four wheels.

...atever time he could to devote to his hobby. He built model steamboats and scale models of stationary traction engines. In 1913 he built his first live stea File:VictorShattock WWI CEF 3.jpg|Victor is in the second row, second from the left.

[[File:MaynardFlatCar1.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Robert Maynard's 3/4 inch scale riding car with brakes.]] ...lling stock is not an original idea of mine. It was copied from a [[3-1/2 Inch Gauge Flat Car|1945 issue of The Model Craftsman, in an article by George T

== Reading 4-4-0 == ...chassis was built in the 1930’s, I believe in New Jersey. These Reading 4-4-0’s from 1914 were the heaviest Americans ever built. It never had a tend

From [[LBSC]], <i>[[The Modelmaker]]</i>, Volume 7, Number 4, April 1930: ...t waste valuable space by cramping a 2-1/2 inch gauge engine into 1/2 inch scale load gauge. Such a job viewed from the front makes you think of a bulldog

Two Inch Scale 4-8-4- Steam Locomotive ...out 1933). Time went on and finally in 1938 the first rails of the 9-7/16 inch gauge line were laid. Previous to this much thought and study went into th

When describing live steams models and railroads the terms "scale" and "gauge" (or both) are used to describe the size of the equipment. The ...ale drawings of the elevations or plans of a locomotive. In such cases the scale is dimensionless and exact throughout the model or drawing.

...eamers]] track on the property behind his box factory. It was a 2-1/2" and 3-1/2" gauge elevated ("highline") loop of track some 600' in length that wen ...was, I believe, a tremendous jump, as I started in by building a 1/4-inch scale live steam pacific, using Birch castings. To the surprise of myself, as we

...-known and was highly respected in the "Live-Steam" riding-scale and grand-scale railroad realms, for his friendly reputation and generosity in sharing his ...uring the mid-1950's, Daney had built, owned, and managed a 4/12 Scale, 15-inch gauge "F-7 Diesel-Powered" railway in the City Park at Pueblo CO, which was

...ho produced and sold 100 casting sets of 3-3/16 inch, 4-3/4 inch and 6-1/2 inch gauge engine castings and 25 completed locomotives to steam enthusiasts, st ...uced a 7-1/4 inch or 7-1/2 inch gauge engine. One of his highly detailed 1 inch locomotives appears in Frederick Shaw's 1958 [[Little Railways of the World

...e, they said he should visit Stapleford Park and see the Stapleford 10-1/4 inch gauge miniature railway. Carl went to see what live steam locomotives were ...for sale in ¾ inch scale and Carl bought the model. Carl then built a 3.5 inch gauge model locomotive track in his backyard on Edna Street in Kitchener, O

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...998. Had the grand opening in 2003. We are still adding on. Have nearly 3 miles of track on the ground and more to come. Nick and I moved here from [[Nick Edwards]] wrote this description on 3 August 2014:

[[Category:3/4 Inch Scale]] quality of the registry. I glean some info from the two 3 ½” sites on Facebook.

...ted 2 1/2" gauge "Northern" type. A beautiful chassis of 3 1/2" gauge 4-8-4 was also shown as well as a 5" gauge Diesel which is under construction. ...themselves and in the case of Brother Larsen, who brought along a 3/4 inch scale "Juliet" had never an opportunity before to try his engine on a track, he w

...rs ago, in Ravenna, Ohio, I saw a 1-1/2 inch scale model of Pennsylvania K-4 built by a Mr. Brown, the owner of a small but well equipped machine shop i ...mblance to a prototype, even though some of the parts are not quite within scale dimensions.

[[3-1/2 Inch Gauge Flat Car]] ...method of obtaining flexibility in the truck itself is used in these 3-1/2 inch gauge trucks also and works out very successfully.