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Cast boiler and tender. Plastic cab. I plan on replacing the cab with a cast one that I got off a parts loco. This is how this looked when I got it.
A fine oscillatory steam engine ,spirit fired with safety valve , whistle and regulator valve. The boiler side plates appear to come from a Bowman model but the engine with its displacement lubricator and brass flywheel do not look like any commercial model I have seen.
This steam engine carried us up, up, up to see the alps, for around an hour. Note the rail in the middle: since the way gets so steep, the train has a cogwheel for better traction. The train was built at 1898, over a hundred years ago.
18 April 1966 - running back down the hill for the next customer. As I recall, that bridge wasn't a roadway it was a burn
A fine oscillatory steam engine ,spirit fired with safety valve , whistle and regulator valve. The boiler side plates appear to come from a Bowman model but the engine with its displacement lubricator and brass flywheel do not look like any commercial model I have seen.
Spoke to the owner and maker. This is actually a working model that has an actual fire tube boiler and burns coal. Further comments welcome.