Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Here’s some more pics of the engine. It’s mostly apart right now. I’m still working on freeing up the piston rod in the gland. It’s really putting up a fight. It’s soaking in evap-o-rust right now.

The previous owner claimed that this was a prototype made by White Motors in Cleveland, Ohio. He said a close family friend worked there and somehow acquired it in the late ‘40s or early ‘50s. He had nothing to back the story up either. Doesn’t make any sense to me that White Motors would be prototyping a toy steam boat, but who knows? It’s definitely not homemade. The hull and most of the boiler and firebox parts are steel and brass stamped parts.

The funniest part of the deal today was when he turned my offer down because it was too much and then stated a lower price that he was happy with. That doesn’t happen very often!