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I've seen several examples of scale working model Case steamers,hit and miss engines and in fact working narrow gauge locomotives . These guys spend literally years building them . I looked at a small Cincinati shaper a few years ago that was for sale .The owner had built a scale model of a...

My departed pappy used to tell of the days of thrashing machines with stationary power units from the 30's . He and his cousin,both straping young men could nearly stall a Rumely oil pull which is a giant old machine with 10 inch cylinders .They tried this on a Case steamer but all they did was...

It is interesting the differences in HP ratings used on gasoline engines versus steam . At one show I saw a big sawmill nearly stall a John-Deere 730 while a 40 HP steamer pulled it with ease . At the same show I saw a 50 HP Russel steamer completely pull in two an 8 inch flat belt hooked to a...

Trivia :Maybe twenty years ago another big steamer was being refurbished some place .They towed that monster to Lima and did some work on it in the locomotive shop of BLH . At that time the company had been sold but the old machinery was still there .It sat there for around 6-8 months then...

I have a pretty good idea that the later steamers were stoker fed instead of hand shoveled .

If that is truely the case that engine would be most likely a Lima built Allegany .It surpased even the ALNICO big boy that was used to haul iron ore from the massabi range .We are talking over 500 tons ,locomotive plus tender and capable of I think 8500 HP with the right boiler . The big boys...

Mike Acres wrote me an E-mail one time about his early days as saw mechanic in a huge lumber camp in the NW Territories I believe .The camp delivered over a million board feet of logs per day to the mill pond by way of several hundred miles of back woods rail spurs with diesel electric...

Only the bases where they once stood . About 25 years ago there was special a steam commemeration run through Ohio with I think a Lima built steamer .From Bellefountain Ohio to Kenton is about 30-35 Miles . In that few miles it sucked down a few thousand gallons of water and burned around 30...

In this country they built the steamers to burn whatever coal was in the region .The "Allegany" class freight engines used the hard Kentucky and Pa coal that is in this area . The western locomotives had large fireboxes to burn western "rosebud " which was about 14 percent moisture coming out...

Trivia 101 : On the Norfolk Southern rail road near Ada Ohio in 1905 a speed record which still rates high was set .127 miles per hour .3 miles in 87 seconds ,can you imagine .:O That section of track is still there ,Amtrac now. .NY city to Chicago,road it several times myself to Chicago and...

Yes they are .Originally designed by a lumber baron by the name of Shay from Michigan . This one is on static display in the podunk town I grew up in .It saw service for Tioga lumber company in West Virginia . All the wheels drive including those of the tender .

Those Shay geared locomotives were all made at the Lima locomotive works which later became BLH ,where I worked . Actually some time in the early 80's I deer hunted in the same area as the Cass scenic railroad .

I'm old enough to remember steam powered trains from the early 50's .By mid fifties to late 50's they were all but gone .

Lima Ohio as well . Baldwin -Lima -Hamilton . I worked there after the era of steam locomotives as a welder .