Tod Engine Restoration Update 

Just like the guy who commented before me.!!!!!! YAAAAA !!!!!! WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!! To deal with all you got going on !!!!! Just INCREDABLE !!!! I wished my son & myself lived closer to you. We live up in the tundera area of Eastern Minnesota. We'd help help on your projects......

Happy Birthday Rick!

Like a giant puzzle that has no end in sight !

I've been watching ever since you started this venture. Your progress and devotion is nothing short of phenomenal! I hope to get a road trip to your site in the near future,

I will look forward to the expansion of the railway and the restoration of the engines.

Wow I did not know that y’all owned a giant stationary steam engine I look forward to seeing this return to service in the future

If you run a track into the building and use the overhead crane and such to move big parts in and out with a steam engine, you better set up some cameras and get good footage to make great RU-vid videos of it!

This should be a fun little quick project.

You know. It would be even more amazing. Considering u have to take it to the carrie works and set it up to run the 48 inch mill.

Brilliant so pleased to see the Tod again on the channel ❤

Thanks, Rick, for keeping us up to date!

Ramble away Rick, love hearing your thought process. Great video!

Have a warm and productive winter. Charles

I wish you the best of luck with everything

Fantastic episode ! One little note - tall claim of “last large stationary engine restoration” - RU-vid is full of such engines. Not to take one iota away from the wonderful challenge you have set for yourselves - and all the work that entails. And HEAR HEAR about [to quote Star Trek ‘Amok Time’] “You may find the ‘having’ is not nearly so pleasurable as the ‘wanting’.” Still, through the multi-year project - oh the joy to be experienced. And until you figure out to go around the bureaucrat’s raining on your ‘operate a locomotive’ parade, perhaps you could host work camps - you provide good pizza, and get labor to incrementally achieve your goals.

Love everything you are planning and have already accomplished

Geezo, that engine is a doozy. Thank you for going through the monetary and physical costs to preserve and restore that engineering kinetic art masterpiece. Do you come from a heavy machinery, millwright, or rigging background?

Excellent video and project, Rick! So cool that all the Porter's may end up helping out one way or another! Here is a video of a "small-scale" version of a vision of your stationary steam engine working again: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nBImv1mlcMg.html . Alex Carnes (and others) worked with the Woburn, MA waterworks folks, so that their stationary steam engine could be brought back to life, and it has. Just today I saw one of your very early videos (#2, from 15yrs ago, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TpQLV-Gm-Dk.html ), which shows an animation of the Tod working. It's only 15 seconds long, but It's still useful!