MY SMALL STEAM LOCOMOTIVE CALLED KEN

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My Small Steam Locomotive Called Ken. This is a small 7 1/4 inch gauge 0-4-0 tank engine that I build in 1996, it is named after my Father the late Kenneth Appleton............................................ / keithappleton
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@alcopower5710 5 лет назад

This is absolutely brilliant. Would love to see Ken running round your railway.

@SimonTekConley 5 лет назад

The precision in making this is amazing.

@Kevin-go2dw 5 лет назад

Thank you for showing us Ken. The other thing is the reversing lever works in reverse. Towards the front of the cab and the engine goes backwards, moved towards the tender and the engine moves funnel forward. Other than that it is just the thing a lot of people wish they had.

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

No, I changed the design . . . .

@timothyboles6457 3 года назад

Wonderful little engine

@amanofmanyparts9120 5 лет назад

You should digitally record that slow reverse chuffing sound, burn it to EPROM and fit it to a sound system to make an electric 'steam boat' sound like a real steam boat.

@Tocsin-Bang 2 года назад

Problem I had with my own 5" loco was that the suspension was very hard. It has a commercially assembled chassis, and the bolts used over-compressed the suspension springs, I changed this, and now it runs fine.

@fredericrike5974 5 лет назад

It's a shame Ken has sat unable to spread his joy to others who have not ever had the pleasure of steam travel! Kieth- I'm sorry for your loss- not only was your father a wise man, he was there and a real part of your life; no father can do more and none should do less. God Bless-FR

@wacoflyer 5 лет назад

Keith, my name is Ken. I'm 68 and in the US and I think that YOU are a very wise man! Please keep these wonderful videos coming!

@annpreston6219 4 года назад

Hello Ken, are you thinking about buying Ken from Keith? Did you already do that? Or are you pleased as is? I mean, it does sound nice knowing that there's a steam locomotive with your name. (You don't need to reply, your answer to my first two questions will most likely be no.) Edit: Also, I have realized that Ken(the steam engine) Is not a model engine, but rather a small engine for personal use.

@donaldnaymon3270 4 года назад

Awesome engine. Nice work. Great garden piece. Lo of skill and knowledge to construct. Thank you for sharing

@oldigger7060 4 года назад

The World needs more people like you!

@ratheonhudson3311 4 года назад

Well maintained and named in honor of a good man. I didn't know him personally , but I say that respectfully as most traits of parents are shown in their kids and you are a good man

@ConnorwithanO 5 лет назад

Absolutely incredible! Great production quality, as well!

@mrc1539 5 лет назад

That is a beautiful engine, you can be proud of that one .thank you for showing it.

@wetplant1748 4 года назад

This man woke up and said "Ima build a steam locomotive"

@Dairobo10 4 года назад

no he built one of thomas's relatives

@justadudeontheinternet8354 4 года назад

@@Dairobo10 no, he built an adorable little 0-4-0 named after his father.

@mylxinjuneprologo1253 2 месяца назад

Nice walschearts valve gear is going smoothly

@benniehazelwood3088 4 года назад

Fantastic work late see it going on the track's

@JonatanGronoset 5 лет назад

Nice engine that. I managed to figure out the cab controls prior to the labling, and I got about 90% right. A good simple arrangement. The wobbling when pulling hard is a fairly nice unintended feature imo because I've seen it on fullsize engines when worked excessively hard, and it gives your engine character. Good model all around, cheers.

@eldmusic 5 лет назад

You are an incredibly interesting and wise man! Loved the video!

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

Thank You {:-)))

@LIMowersAndMore 5 лет назад

I love ken it’s small compact and detailed! Keep up the good work!

@itsmeintorrespain2714 5 лет назад

Many moons ago I built one of these in 3.5" gauge strictly to the words and music of LBSC. It took me 8 years on a Cowells 90 lathe. Then I built another, much modified and complete with tender again in 3.5" gauge. That one took just 18 months. My sons now have them, 1 each.

@adamwachs6392 5 лет назад

92nd Hi I have just started making a Juliet loco

@giulianodenardi7654 5 лет назад

Congratulations on your beautiful tribute to your father, make your family proud!

@anthonypirozzi837 5 лет назад

Love the mighty boosh "Old greg"🤣

@oldgregg1455 4 года назад

Mmm yes.

@michaelgoodman8849 3 года назад

@@oldgregg1455 LOL Would you like some creamy creamy Bailys...from a shoe?

@KonstantinNikitin 5 лет назад

Прекрасный обзор!

@juscelinosobral350 6 месяцев назад

Indo vídeo e um deste que vai me ajudar construir um motor a vapor

@annpreston6219 4 года назад

It's important that you ALWAYS name your locomotives before using them.

@tune3garage 5 лет назад

Ken is a beautiful machine and a wonderful tribute to a significant person from your life.

@marc49lewis 4 года назад

You are quite the craftsman indeed! It's beautiful!

@keithappleton 4 года назад

Thank you {:-)))

@aaronhorn6849 5 лет назад

Thank tou for sharing Ken with us. Im sure your Dad would be chuffed with the honour.

@charlesballiet7074 2 года назад

thats a really sweet engine

@Piocota 4 года назад

Bela Locomotiva, parabéns e obrigado por compartilhar.

@e.mnz1280 3 года назад

Does ken have an inner valve gear?

@keithappleton 3 года назад

No. Just ordinary Walschaerts valve gear for two cylinders.

@adamdrummer1991 5 лет назад

Is that walscharts valve gear?

@Steven_Rowe 4 года назад

Great video Kieth I truly admire your engineering skills to build a locomotive. I notice that in forward gear the radius rod is at the top of the expansion link. Most full size locos I have seen this would be reverse. Can you explain in simple terms why is it the opposite way around as I'm just curious. That is a beautiful locomotive.

@keithappleton 4 года назад

The drawing was wrong and I modified the design slightly.

@thetreedemoknight4827 4 года назад

I want one of these and I'll even pay $60 for rail construction

@tyleranimationsnstuff3585 Год назад

Cool

@kaibroeking9968 5 лет назад

The Spirit of Jazz? So, you want to be the greatest jazz player in Yorkshire?

@Curly472001 5 лет назад

Love your videos Keith. I have found very informative and instructional. They have helped me learn how to run my Polly O and K loco "Lilian". Best wishes Graham Powell

@Bob.W. 5 лет назад

Lovely, as the brits say.

@michaelgoodman8849 3 года назад

Oh Man, my hat's on fire, why didn't you tell me? Thought it was your look!

@VictoryAviation 5 лет назад

Amazing engineering and craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing! - an admiring yank

@patchvonbraun Год назад

Beautiful work.

@keithappleton Год назад

Thank you 😀

@MegaPeedee 4 года назад

Very interesting. You are a very talented man.

@keithappleton 4 года назад

Thank You - I practice a lot {:-)))

@nick199009 4 года назад

is there such a thing as a Dynamometer for live steam models, showing: rpm, horsepower, watts/killowats & torque?

@keithappleton 4 года назад

Maybe, I don't know . . .

@alvarogvdltgarcia52 4 года назад

Rip, hammond organ and music equipement

@bradenhamilton7019 5 лет назад

You should run him on steam keith

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

I do ....... Please watch some more of my videos . . .

@bradenhamilton7019 5 лет назад

Keith Appleton I watch your videos and they are always so intriguing, but I have not seen a video on this locomotive running under his own steam

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

Please watch some more of my videos . . . I have three videos on the channel with this locomotive in steam . . . .

@e-mananimates2274 5 лет назад

Always a pleasure to see these locomotives! I'd love to have one for myself.

@markjurkovich7814 5 лет назад

I think you've done a great job making that engine sir. Thanks for sharing.

@dozedozauto4501 5 лет назад

Parabéns muito bom, pra mim é muito importante esse documentário.

@jdlives8992 3 года назад

Super cool !!!

@martykath4427 2 года назад

I realise all the flash valve gear gives an engine the ability to reverse and that the valve timing I imagine would be the same in both directions, but it there any altering of the duration of steam entering the engine from the valve gear ?

@keithappleton 2 года назад

Yes, it's called "Notching Up" allowing the slide valve to travel less distance.

@grahakurniawan7799 4 года назад

So you're telling me... THAT IT'S POSSIBLE THAT ENGINES CAN BOUNCE?? SO THOMAS AND FRIENDS BOUNCING IS POSSIBLE AND NORMAL???.... Ah so Thomas and friends is still realistic

@BlindingLight 5 лет назад

This is the smollest locomotive I’ve ever seen

@knapfordman1984 5 лет назад

T.O.M.Y

@astrochaos4182 3 года назад

I dunno z scale is pretty small

@LouisvilleNashville2132 4 года назад

Uploaded On my Birthday I Love Steam locomotives

@captainufo4587 5 лет назад

Speaking of controls, you mentioned the reversing lever last, with no added details. As far as I know, on an actual, full-sized locomotive, the cut-off is a crucial bit that you have to adjust several times as you travel, starting full open to start moving, then easing it down to pick up speed and save steam, depending on service, incline, weight of the train, etc. Are model locomotives "easier" to drive in that you just put them in forward or reverse and forget about it until you have to stop?

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

Not really, they work as in the full size, notch back once you get rolling ....

@captainufo4587 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@jaybarber68 4 года назад

I read that the most efficient way to run a steam locomotive is, throttle wide open and use the johnson bar to adjust speed. I wasn’t taught that, but I run an Accucraft Ruby that way. It’s way too fast for a small locomotive, and it stalls out if you try to slow down!

@grandadsfishingboat7455 2 года назад

Newish subscriber here.. very interesting channel thankyou.

@keithappleton 2 года назад

Thanks for the sub!

@bigkat1919 5 лет назад

I'm ol Greg!!!!!

@e.mnz1280 3 года назад

I think ken is beautiful

@Frieghtliner1975 5 лет назад

I watched this with my wife. She says this is best RU-vid video in the history of RU-vid. Not only do I agree with her.... I am not allowed to disagree with her.

@e.mnz1280 3 года назад

Small, yet fast valve gear

@oxfd611 4 года назад

Keith you know your engine sounds like my moms old singer sewing machine from when I was a kid, when you were running it on just compressed air without the background noise of the live steam.

@modeltrainsandsuch 4 года назад

Where did you get your rolling road from Keith or did you make it . Would like a set for my 5 inch gauge dougal

@keithappleton 4 года назад

Ebay - CMD Engineering . . .

@modeltrainsandsuch 4 года назад

@@keithappleton thank you

@sky173 4 года назад

Beutiful train. I'd love to get my dad involved in this. He's in to 'G' scale trains but I know he would love this.

@tedzone5544 2 года назад

Lived in a small town back in 1978. Older man up the road had a set up like yours but he probably stayed more with the print. He had a big back yard and ever small child around in it when that train ran. Next to the church a block from main street on a large open corner so it didn't take long for every kid to be there. There are fun :)

@keithappleton 2 года назад

I enjoyed having my own Railway for a few years, but eventually I used it less & less.....

@trainsbangsandautomobiles824 5 лет назад

The Mighty Boosh!!

@defmech 5 лет назад

Love that he's a Boosh fan.

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

}:-)))

@omega9951 4 года назад

i hope someday im rich enough to build my own locomotive.

@keithappleton 4 года назад

You don't need to be rich, I am not rich and even less so when I built my first model steam locomotive. A lot of the metal & tools I got from a local scrapyard, I still have many of the old scrapyard tools.

@ranfis1974 Год назад

Job well done, You have a lot of free time brother..Good for you

@keithappleton Год назад

Free time??? what is that? I spend over 40 hours per week making these videos . . . . .

@darylh8657 3 года назад

I love the sound of that engine! It chants: "Liverpool".

@MrBigdragon2009 5 лет назад

Thank you

@ianmcculloch9455 4 года назад

Wonderful video of a wonderful garden loco and railway. Cheers from Downunder.

@darkwater72 4 года назад

Scale steam powered water injection? Really. That is detailed.

@tomasgarcea1112 5 лет назад

MUCHAS GRACIAS!!! Finalmente encuentro un video que me muestre como manipular la dirección de giro

@kleetus92 5 лет назад

What valve gear is that? Modified Hackworth? Nice looking little engine!

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

Walschaerts

@daspedal2730 4 года назад

we´all know your father is still rolling with you. all the best from germany :)

@Dairobo10 4 года назад

wow its thomas but black

@arthurmagalhaes661 4 года назад

Linda miniatura, parabéns pela construção e obrigado por compartilhar/publicar na web.

@DFX2KX 4 года назад

OH! So THAT's how the reverse works on a steam engine! that thing that you move in btween runs just changes the valve timing around right?

@seven9766 3 года назад

pretty much.

@steamgent4592 3 года назад

Nice loco but who makes that reliable lubricator on it?? Or did you make it yourself?

@keithappleton 3 года назад

It is a commercial unit that I added a second tank to with a balancing pipe.

@steamgent4592 3 года назад

@@keithappleton is it a black gates product or someone elses? Who makes it or made it? Reliable anything is hard to come by in the hobby so when I hear of one I like to know who did the great job! Some builders are great and some are sloppy. Watching your videos I see you fixing a good bit of sloppy work or guys who think everything prototypical is the way to go. Not everything works as it should in exact scale.

@keithappleton 3 года назад

Blackgates have sold them for many years, and I have bought a few in my time. I think that the pumps were originally an LBSC design. They seem to work very well.

@steamgent4592 3 года назад

@@keithappleton thanks Keith you're a wealth of info and do good quality work. A gem to the hobby. Took me a bit to get your sense of humor when I first started watching you but once I realized it was sarcasm and poking fun it's made your videos even better. Thanks again for all that you do share with us!

@vojtasTS29 4 года назад

was there ever a switch to the siding next to where you're pushing the car up the incline? Looks like there was :) Is there a story behind that? :)

@keithappleton 4 года назад

I never got around to making one }:-)))

@TEDavis 5 лет назад

Excellent workmanship on your steam engine, and passenger coach.

@brucebussert4983 5 лет назад

Keith, does your engine have a slide or piston valve? It looks cylindrical at the back but that may just be the packing gland. I seem to recall that you prefer slide valves even at this size.

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

It is a slide valve engine

@สุทัศน์พึ่งวิทย์-ฆ2ธ 4 года назад

มันสวยงาม..มาก..มาก..love..u...Fc..2019

@keithappleton 4 года назад

Thank You }:-)))

@glenncerny8403 5 лет назад

You ever been to Pete Townsend's place? I'll bet his heap of busted instruments is bigger than yours. :)

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

}:-)))

@radekodehnal7535 2 года назад

🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒👏👏👏👏🏅🏆

@thebongmaster 5 лет назад

Beautiful engine :)

@ingohiller3415 5 лет назад

Very nice the 1st time I seen how it really works thank you

@sthor57 3 года назад

Very good :-)

@saketsoni6580 3 года назад

Excellent job

@rickwilkins3055 4 года назад

Very interesting. Love the musical graveyard

@quillmaurer6563 5 лет назад

In the view of the cab, one seemingly quite major control was never labeled: The bent silver handle atop the vertical post, between the firebox door and injector valves. What is that, what does it do? 9:01 Mentions problem with flat car's wheels getting rusty, which causes friction going around curves - wouldn't that be resolved by running it a bit more to rub the rust off the wheels? Typically train wheels get very shiny very quickly when running, would probably take longer with a scale model than a real full-size train, but I'd still think it would resolve itself pretty quickly.

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

That will be the obvious one that everyone knows - the regulator . . . . . if only I had the time to clean 400 feet of rusty track before every run . . . .

@quillmaurer6563 5 лет назад

The regulator was marked as the handle centered near the top of the boiler, so I would assume the handle in question must be something else. Now that I think of it, is it the brake? It looks like it might actuate some sort of screw mechanism, and that's the one rather important control we don't see labeled or mentioned.

@davidtaylor6124 4 года назад

I think you mean the handbrake. Turn the handle to put the brakes on.

@mamodsteamreturns5492 5 лет назад

lovely engine that keith .. did your farther see the engine run when he was alive ? by the way where did you get the rollers from or did you make them ?

@keithappleton 5 лет назад

Unfortunately not, I built the engine in 1996, my Father died in 1990.