The Steamer's I have known...


First off: A link to various old pictures:Old Pictures

This is "The Thing". On trial, for the first time, we played around with it, pulling me (about 250 Lbs at the time) up 1 in 66 in my dad's backyard. It worked OK, but all we had was 220 ft of track. (110 each way) Engine is a Stuart #10V (sort of) sleved down to .700 thou. 12/1 reduction, vertical firetube boiler (coal fired), handpump/layshaft pump.

These two are the traction engine and roller. We still have parts of the roller...if my dad ever puts them back together... mind you, it's a bit of a grandfathers axe project (3 new heads, 4 new handles, and still the orginal axe!) This would be pictures of Version #2, since the photo dates to about 1985

This is my Britannia.
The engine was built by Harry Bonham, of Toronto.


This is a photo of the backhead of my britannia. You can see the problems that I would win by trying to refit the watergauge.

The Brit. on the track in BC

This is a 4 cylinder "seal" engine, (E.T. Westbury design), also built by H.B., that we photographed when I picked up my railway engine.

And this is a photo taken of the wheels of the Brit...I got a new camera and lens, so took some photos...

This brave engine in 2 1/2" Gauge was hauling 2 people around the Aldergrove track one of the 2 days that I have been there to run. Quite nice to see a 2 1/2" engine in use on a North American track.

This fall, I moved to NFLD. I have ran on the track that is here (many thanks, Dr Lockwood!). Here are some photos taken in some of the accesable places along the track.

That is John Lockwood behind the brit, driving a 5" gauge Simplex. Look at the car behind and below the track. The track is 7' off the ground here

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