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

Thanks for joining us Gil! Can’t wait till I am able to make it out to view your collection in person!!

A must do trip Nick.

Greetings once more.

Here is another for my table.

This is a Model Dockyard #5 as shown in the 1872 catalog.

It weighs 80-90 lbs and was not a model but a full sized steam engine that a model engineer could power his workshop with.

It requires a little more pressure than many of my steam engines because mechanically it is still like new and not yet broken in.
When it is running you can hear that all is tight.

Enjoy the beast!

Gil

Here is the page describing it in the 1872 Model Dockyard catalog and the artist's cut.
Imagine buying the whole steam plant for 30 Pounds Sterling!

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As I mentioned earlier,  what a beautiful collection you have Gil!

As I mentioned earlier,  what a beautiful collection you have Gil!

Thanks again for the kind words, George.

Gil

Love that large Model Dockyard 😍

Thanks, Nick.

It is a stout beast..!!

Gil

Quote from: RedRyder on March 08, 2024, 09:53:54 am

Quote from: Stoker on March 04, 2024, 07:40:23 pm

Gil, you have so much heavy iron in your Office of Steam that I think you need to build yourself a heavy-duty cart that has a swing arm boom to be able to pick some of those monsters up and transport them around the shop or elsewhere.

Thanks, Daniel. Good suggestion.

Gil

Something like this one:

https://youtu.be/mCufgAwqhac?si=4b0S7evTmfMWak2p

GREAT IDEA...!!!