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• A 3/4 Inch Scale Electric Locomotive
  A 3/4 Inch Scale Electric Locomotive ...omotive was built in 1930 and has been operating since then. It is an 0-4-4-0 type, with the following dimensions:
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• Let's Build a Boiler for the 3/4 inch Scale Beginner's Locomotive
  Let's Build a Boiler for the 3/4 inch Scale Beginner's Locomotive ...t plate, inner fire box, throat plate and the two tube sheets allowing 1/4 inch all around where it is to be flanged. You can lay all of these patterns on
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• 3/4 Inch Scale Registry
  [[Category:3/4 Inch Scale]] quality of the registry. I glean some info from the two 3 ½” sites on Facebook.
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• Bill Oberpriller's Minnie
  [[Minnie 2]] is a freelance 2-4-2 live steam locomotive designed by Bill Oberpriller. Bill offered the loc ''2-4-2 CONSTRUCTION PROJECT''
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• Steam Locomotive Drawings
  == 3.75 inch scale == * [[Meg Wendy]] 0-4-0
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• Golden Gate Live Steamers
  ...that there was activity going on. I believe there is a picture showing a 3 ½” gauge engine as finished. Harry Dixon took that picture. We were up ...ic Shattock was the first to make a test run with his 2-1/2 inch and 3-1/2 inch gauge locos.
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• Pennsylvania Live Steamers
  ...the line is built on ground level and is laid to 1/2 inch, 3/4 inch and 1 inch scales. Friends are asked to bring the locomotive and riding car and have * Harry Quick and Bros., Mahanoy City, Pa., 1 inch scale 4-6-4
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• IBLS Wheel Standard
  ...dual gauge we use a 3/4 inch scale diameter and width wheel with a 1 inch scale flange. Since the track gauge value must remain the same even though the f ! scope="col"|Scale
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• IBLS Journal 1950
  ...e Chabot of Worcester, Mass. will complete the tender for his new 3/4 inch scale Atlantic which put up a nice performance on its first steam run trail at th According to the grapevine there are two 3-1/2 inch gauge honest to gosh diesel projects being built (hush, hush). One is a Ca
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• IBLS Track Standard
  <tr><td>Scale</td><td>Ratio</td><td>Standard Gauge</td><td>Notes</td></tr> ...m<br>0.650 inch</td><td>Hornby produced.Generally regarded as the smallest scale for live steam.</td></tr>
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• Bill Van Brocklin
  ...f [[The Live Steamer]] features a detailed view of the well known 3/4 inch scale Boston & Maine Atlantic type locomotive built by William (Bill) Van Brockli ...pg. 100. This is Bill's second locomotive, and the first built in 3/4 inch scale.
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• 7-1/4 vs 7-1/2 Gauge
  The 7 1/4 versus 7 1/2 Debate ...s by most. What is really most interesting is the fact that for exact 1/8" scale, the track gauge should be 7 1/16 inches.
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• Rocky Mountain Live Steamers
  ...duced.jpg|thumb|right|500px|[[Arthur Wegner]] running his 3.5 inch gauge 4-4-2 Atlantic loco at [[J. B. Squires]]' track, Colorado Springs, CO, June 196 ...ight|300px|[[Arthur Wegner]], running his 3/4 inch scale, 3.5 inch gauge 4-4-2 Atlantic, June 1959. Photo by [[Ken Scheer]].]]
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• Now You Can Finish Your Boiler For The Beginner's Locomotive
  ...ly and 7/16 inch centers vertically. There are eighteen tubes in all, 3/8 inch [[O.D.]] and standard commercial IMperial tube is used. ...X but a clear one. Her grate is 2 inch by 6 inch though deeper than our 0-4-0. She'll do 1/2 a mile regularly on one firing so what more do you want.
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• Gordon Corwin
  ...:GordonCorwin 4-8-4 hoist.jpg|Gordon Corwin loading his 3/4 inch scale 4-8-4 onto the track of his home layout, circa 1957 in Southern California. Photo ...inJr 4-8-4.jpg|Gordon Corwin's son, Gordon Jr, on their 3/4 inch scale 4-8-4, circa 1957. Photo provided by Stephen Quandt.
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• Douglas Massie
  ...inch scale and was to have surprised the boys this summer with a 3/4 inch scale Diesel Locomotive. [[File:Doug Massie UP Challenger.jpg|thumb|center|500px|3/4 inch scale live steam model of a Union Pacific Challenger built by D. W. Massie of Mon
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• IBLS Journal 1938
  ...heat. I bet you took it then so you could work on the frames for your new 4-6-2. It is pretty hard work getting frames out of the solid for a big job ...time I had an engine on the track was Christmas afternoon when I took the 4-6-6T out to see if the crank pin setting was all right. Guess I got the ec
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• Harry Coventry
  ...scale 0-6-0; a 1 inch scale 4-4-0 and 4-6-0; a British "Single" in 1 inch scale, and various other models. ...gn on the market. [[Miniature Power Products]] of Canada kept the 3/4 inch scale P7 on the market from the 1970s to the 2000s.
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• IBLS Journal 1952
  ...again was [[William Moorewood|Bill Moorewood]]'s little 3-1/2 inch gauge 4-4-0. It is taken from one of the old time Pennsy engines with a small deep f ...rocklin's]] in operation, and Earl Allred's in process. Earl's is a 3-1/2 inch gauge Pennsy G5 and sure has every indication of a successful job. One cou
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• Otha Hege Steam Turbine Generator
  Steam Turbo Generator in 3/4 Inch Scale ...utting the hole to size. This hole should be one or two thousandths of an inch smaller than the magnet so that it will press in. Be sure the hole is in t
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• Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society
  ...ameter (as they were the only size I could get at the time.) Bogies 2-1/2 inch diameter. ...stop cold air from going straight through the tubes. This plate is 1-1/4 inch wide, and is welded to the foundation ring, the grate rests on this at the
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• New England Live Steamers
  ...the property behind his box factory in Danvers, Mass. It was a 2-1/2" and 3-1/2" gauge elevated ("highline") loop of track some 600' in length that wen ...uite often the Brotherhood of Live Steamers Annual Meet) would be held for 3 days each September.
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• Axle Driven Feed Pump for the Beginner's Locomotive
  ''An 0-4-0 Switcher of Simple Design in 3/4 inch Scale'' ...ll pump as much water to the mile as a 5 inch drivered Atlantic with a 5/8 inch stroke pump which pretty well evens things up. While a big pump is handy t
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• Simplun
  ''A 4-4-0 Story in Pictures'' This 3-1/2 inch gauge engine was built with two objects in mind, one extreme simplicity and
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• IBLS Journal 1954
  The Brotherhood of Live Steamers meet was held September 4, 5 and 6, 1954, hosted by the [[Southern California Live Steamers]]. ...nnual meeting. The meeting was held at their track in Lomita on September 4, 5 and 6, 1954.
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• The Miniature Boiler
  ...gauge or 0.035 inch wall tube is ample and proper for tubes up through 3/4 inch [[O.D.]] Anything thicker is detrimental to the steaming qualities of the ...antage in getting the most flue area in the space allowed. Do not use 3/8 inch tubes in any case in lengths of over 10 to 12 inches and not at all in any
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• IBLS Journal 1951
  ...'s 3/4 inch scale drivers and [[Walschaert valve gear]] frames in 3/4 inch scale by Nelson Rickson added to what was seen and discussed. ...there is 1300 fett of continuous track in 2-1/2 inch, 3-1/2 inch and 4-3/4 inch gauges. All live steamers who can possibly get to this event are urged to
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• Wandering Locomotive Books
  ...ns fifth and sixth locomotives, from The Wandering Locomotive Book, Volume 3.]] ...ilt in 1936, cylinders 1-5/8 by 1-3/4 inch stroke, using link motion, 7/16 inch valve travel. The other engine has the [[Baker valve gear]]. The water su
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• Tender Hand Pump for 3/4" Scale Locomotives
  ...inch by 1-1/2 inch in size. The pump is held to the tank bottom by a 1/4 inch nut and a lock nut around the delivery union with a thin rubber joint to ma This pump is for 3/4 inch scale engines, but can be used for 1/2 inch scale engines also. If the tank is not deep enough for the latter, a sump could
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• Hudson 4-6-4
  [[File:HarryAustin Hudson1.jpg|thumb|right|450px|[[Harry Austin]]'s 3/4 inch scale Hudson. Photo by [[Keith Taylor]]]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-6-4 From <i>Wikipedia</i>]:
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• Greenly’s Hudson
  ...en, Steel Highway, 1928).jpg|thumb|right|500px|New York Central Hudson 4-6-4]] ...design could be built as a 4-6-4 or as a Northern 4-8-4. At least one 4-8-4 model was built from these plans.
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• Wischstadt Arch Bar Trucks
  ...adt. Most old timers knew Ace on the West Coast. He was the talker of the 3 guys who were the founding fathers of [[Chula Vista Live Steamers]]. Both ...ypes of arch style trucks and many types of construction methods for 1-1/2 scale. Here I hope to explain how I build my trucks clear enough so other builde
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• Southern California Live Steamers
  ...d Chief Inspector, was first to complete steaming his four wheel, one inch scale Switcher, better known as "Puffin Billy" and kept it hot and busy all day c ...n child by [[Eugene Paul|Eugene]] known as "Hustle and Bustle", a one inch scale six wheel switcher owned by Melvin R. Roberts, newly elected First Vice-Pre
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• William Morewood
  ...g at a member’s home, he brought his remarkable alcohol-fired 3.5” gauge 4-4-0 of typical 19th Century Pennsylvania Railroad practice. He had first bec ...on while providing good tracking characteristics compared to an unguided 0-4-0 or 0-6-0. In a nod toward simple construction, the new engine would use
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• Karl Friedrich
  [[Karl Friedrich]] designed the 1 inch scale "Dinky" 0-4-0 "shifter" in 3.5 inch gauge. He was a founding member of the [[Rocky Mountain Live Steamers]]. ...T". At that time, Karl resided in Pittsburgh PA, and steamed and ran his 0-4-6T locomotive at [[Charles A. Purinton|Carl Purinton's]] 'back & forth' tra
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• Youd Better Not Call Them Toys
  ...ut milled, turned, filed, or polished to a tolerance of a thousandth of an inch or less. Steam-pressure gauges work: so do Johnson bars, sand domes, brake ...wer to haul two adults for eighty; it may be a Tom Thumb or a giant 4-6-6-4 Union Pacific. No matter its individual specifications, it represents one
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• Live Steam in 1/240th Scale
  ...eally small scale steamers, like eight-coupled wheelbases of less than one inch! ...y are not really model makers at heart but would prefer to work in 4 ft 8½ inch gauge if they could afford it. Being a perverse individual, I have progress
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• Windsor Ontario Live Steam Club
  ...et in diameter. Jack had a 2-1/2 inch gauge NYC Hudson and Ted had a 3-1/2 inch Maisie. I believe the group consisted of Syd Smitherman, Jack Hart, Ted Lee ...x 5-1/2 inch x 6 foot long junk boards, doubled up on each side of the 2 x 4 uprights. This was all bolted together thanks to a magnificent benefactor.
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• One Inch Steam Locomotive Goes Hollywood
  1 inch Scale Locomotive "Goes Hollywood" Here is a little story about a 1 inch scale Hudson that made the movies at the age of 13 years in "[http://en.wikipedia
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• Building the Little Railroad
  ...purpose of any railroad, from H00 to 4 foot 8-1/2 inch or even 7 foot 1/4 inch, as to afford a place to operate locomotives. A club railroad should have ...three gauges side by side, not one within the other, as this gave a better scale appearance in proportion to the ties. This had two great disadvantages. F
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• Track and Switches for Live Steam
  ...live steam hobby. What is the standard gauge for 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch, etc, scale? What is the height of the trestle? Do you use point switches to get on y * 1/4 inch scale - track gauge 1-1/4 inch
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• Bruce Achor
  ...e steam hobby starting in the mid-1930's. He built a 7-1/2" gauge, 1-1/2" scale track along with a Hudson and other equipment. ...help of his family and friends, built this pike for operating the fine 4-6-4 coal burner which he constructed.
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• Design and Layout of a Valve Gear
  wheel in inches'''. For example, an engine with 80 inch drivers would be engine with 3-5/16 inch drivers would run at 3-5/16 M.P.H. <u>This also has another
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• Who Ever heard of a Diesel Engine?
  ...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
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• Cliff Blackstaffe
  ...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.
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• Cylinders and Cylinder Heads for the Beginner's Locomotive
  ''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
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• Drive Wheels Rods for the Beginner's Locomotive
  ''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.
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• Victor Shattock
  ...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.
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• A 3/4 Scale Flat Car With Brakes
  [[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
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• Enos Yoder
  == 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
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• 17/32 Inch Scale
  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
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• Centerville and Southwestern Railroad
  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
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• Scales and Gauges
  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.
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