It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Sharing another image of my steam train by the mini Lilac. I wish Lilacs lasted longer, they smell so great and look nice. The flowers are just about done already. This is the Accucraft Forney Live Steam locomotive and it's train by it.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! It's also a double digit day. 😁 Spring has come to my Garden Railway as my mini Lilac is blooming rather profusely. I took a few images of my Accucraft Live Steam Forney and a train with it the other day. I have been doing a bunch of spring cleanup on the railroad and hope to be running again soon.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! It's also a double digit day today! 😁 This is a version of my Christmas card that I sent out this year. I took this image back in early January when we had 16 inches of snow! I had never incorporated my figures into it but I think it worked fairly well. This is my Live Steam Forney locomotive having the track cleared for it.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is of my new (used) Forney locomotive that I got in Florida with the track. I took this image on the first day of using it and running Live Steam on the layout. Forney locomotives, 0-4-4Ts, are a type of tank engine. They were developed by Matthias Nace Forney in the 1860s. They were used for mining, lumber, plantations and some short haul freight and passenger service. The most well known Forney locomotive is the Ward Kimble built by Baldwin for the Disneyland Railroad in California.
There is a video of it in operation on my layout that I shared last week, HERE if you haven't seen it and would like to.
It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today is about my latest Live Steam project, my raised layout. I picked this layout up from Florida over my Christmas Break on a whirlwind trip. We have been working on getting it installed since then and after some snow and bitter cold delays, it is finally usable! It needs some finishing work like trim but I did a test run with one of my battery locomotives and after that went well did my first Live Steam run which is what the layout was really designed for. The locomotive I am running is an Accucraft Forney that I purchased along with the track. It had some pretty bad scale buildup that took several vinegar soaks and some other soaks and rinses to get cleaned out but it seems to be running pretty well. I need to figure out the best settings for it but other than that it sounded good as it ran. It, like my other locomotives operates on Butane and water.
You can see a short video of the first run HERE.
