How To Operate A Live Steam Locomotive V2.0 In HD 

Amen, this guy is great!

And the amount of expensive toys Edit: and sometimes the ability to do videos of your big and expensive toys

Where can I get one and about how much are they

Its breathing and its alive. I love the sound and the smell.

I love steam locomotives the way most men love cars.

I think that’s the sound of a allen 10 wheeler

It was already said and deserves another that these are living and breathing machines. One of great achievements of humankind.

Tallishyeti27 try years I'm making a 2 and a half inch gauge b17 class and it's taken me 8 years and I have the chassis wheels and a few connecting rods so I have a LONG way to go

Tallishyeti27 years

What about building the physical plant? All that track!

What about the real sized engines

@@aidangant1400Total time these smaller locomotives would take much much longer, but the regular size would take many many more man hours

These dedicate so much time to, I work in a railway company one of my coworkers has spent 25 years building his locomotives

castle park in Riverside California? those are diesel outlines

Ok?

i have fallen with love his engine 😍

Add some meat and barbecue sauce to the firebox and it'll smell like barbecue. 😁

Stexu live steam is popular in Germany.

Illinois Valley Productions I know but I have personal not enough money.

The locomotive belongs to him but the layout belongs to a club.

Nah thats a club, the loco is his, rather scratchbuilt or bought for a expensive price.

Retarteddog 1 No he did not win the Powerball. He works hard and saves his money!

​@@applesucks2633 some people unfortunately can't save money, even when they work hard

You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoy them!

The Steam Channel you should have a BTTF3 railroad delorean in front of the locomotive and *a line from the third movie * to push it up to 88 mph * BTTF3 train whistle blows * that's it

Every person does it a little differently. Some larger locomotives have tenders that are big enough for 2 people. In that case the instructor sits behind the student and advises them as they go along. Smaller locomotives require a different approach. Either the instructor can walk along the student and give advice or then can ride in a car behind. Personally I walk along the student until I feel the can operate the locomotive adequately. This means managing speed with throttle and brake, plus keeping the water level in check. Then I ride behind for short trips and begin to teach firing the locomotive. Once they have that down, they can go out on there own. Of course I'm no master either and I'm still learning the little idiosyncrasies of locomotive operation, but I'm proficient enough to run successfully by myself for hours at a time.

Do a bit of research into Mr LD Porta and Mr David Wardale. SAR Class 26 3450. Methods that were also used by the late Mr Phil Girdlestone. You'd be surprised how amazing steam could have been

Thank you. We do very much!

An engine like this can make a few horsepower, and with tender weighs 600 pounds. Somewhat larger ones can make 8 horsepower when running fast.

This is not your usual "toy"! The engine alone weighs on the order of 500 lbs! It can put out on the order of a couple of horsepower when going fast. It has a voracious appetite for fuel air, and water. Did you note the jerk and the interruption at 11:20? Engine hit a rock and derailed. I will be willing to bet that some crowbars and the like were used to get it back on during the interruption!

It was actually the tender that derailed. No crowbars are necessary for this locomotive as it is still light enough to re-rail by hand. A larger engine, like the 4120- the 4-8-4 we used in the other how-to- would require a steel bar, some blocks, and perhaps some steel plate to slide the wheels over on.

I would like a 4-8-8-4 in that gauge.

These aren't really "toys," they're literally scaled-down versions of the real thing. They have to be built to specific standards, especially the boiler, otherwise it could blow or spring a leak of superheated steam.

wildcoyote34 I'm

Absolutely, we do that every June when the White Creek Railroad has its open spring meet. The railroad is on approximately 60 acres and you can kill a week out there easy.

He did a fantastic job IN the video