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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Live Steam Locomotives => Topic started by: Hero on March 13, 2019, 05:26:11 pm

Title: Re: Dickins
Post by: Kevin68 on March 14, 2019, 10:10:12 am

A lovely loco.

Title: Re: Dickins
Post by: MrandMrsferrysteam on March 14, 2019, 05:19:23 am

That's nice... :)
           Allan.

Title: Re: Dickins
Post by: Nick on March 13, 2019, 09:43:19 pm

I've always loved this simple design, would love to build one myself someday...

Title: Re: Dickins
Post by: jerseysteam on March 13, 2019, 06:09:42 pm

Cute! Looking forward to seeing it run on steam.

Title: Dickins
Post by: Hero on March 13, 2019, 05:26:11 pm

Since it appears that this forum has members who were not participants in the Mamod forum, I have judged it not inappropriate to post a brief description of my 0-gauge live steam locomotive, whose construction I serialized on the other forum.

Dr. James Senft presented Dickins (yes, spelled thus) in three 1976 issues of "Live Steam" magazine, basing it loosely on the 19th-century "dribbler" carpet locomotives still seen occasionally on sites like eBay and successfully copied by manufacturers like Maxwell Hemmens. Unlike those, locos, though, Dickins runs on  0-gauge or 027 track.

I built Dickins a couple of winters ago and have run it successfully on air. I hope finally to steam it this summer.

https://youtu.be/rdClrrrbuGA