06/01/25

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog once again.  It's June and we are halfway through the year already!  Wow!  Today's locomotive is the last one I ran on my mini steam up in early May on the new/used raised layout.  This is my Accucraft Live Steam Emma.  Emma is a model of a Brooks industrial 0-4-0T. Brooks Locomotive Works, of Dunkirk, New York was an important supplier of locomotives to railroads and industry. In 1901, Brooks and several other locomotive builders merged to become the American Locomotive Company, or ALCO.  It's a bit larger than a usual G scale locomotive which is generally 1:29, this one is 7/8 scale.  It's a really fun locomotive to operate though and it's run time is quite long as it has good size water and fuel tanks.

I have a video of it operating on YouTube HERE.

06/16/24

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!.  It's also Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Here is another look at my new Emma locomotive made by Accucraft.  From this angle you can see a bit of the controls for it.  In the front side window is a glimpse of where you put the oil to lubricate the locomotive as it runs, it mixes with steam.  In the back, the lower bronze knob is the gas control and the upper silvery one is the throttle.  The circular tubing, visible from the back side window, goes up to the steam pressure gauge.  The locomotive is an 0-4-0 Tank engine modeled after the kind that carry their water over the boiler.  This one has no fuel tender but probably should have as there is no where to store it if this was an actual locomotive.  Also, for some reason, the whistle was lost before I got it.

If you missed it, there is a video of it HERE where you can see it running.

06/09/24

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  I recently purchased a new Live Steam locomotive from a friend during a get together.  He had never used it so it is essentially a brand new locomotive and on Memorial Day I ran it for the first time.  After getting a few bugs out, including the fact that the port to put the Butane in was loose and leaked (just needed tightening) I ran it around my railroad.  It performed wonderfully actually except that, due to no fault of the locomotive, it needs to be remotely throttle controlled due to the grades on my layout, on the downgrades it would run pretty quickly.  In the image you can see my winter project, I scratch-built the water tower.  The ladder was 3D printed.  I based it off a Rio Grande style one.  I have a video of the engine running in this area on YouTube if you would like to watch.  More info is there as well.