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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Collections & Pictures => Topic started by: IndianaRog on March 19, 2019, 04:26:21 pm

Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: Belugawhaleman on April 09, 2019, 08:19:53 pm: Looks to be in great shape and with terrific sentimental significance Rog. My first engine
Was a 1970's Mamod SW1 which is sadly no more. However, I did find an identical replacement recently.
It's wonderful that you still have your first engine. I, however, was a careless, destructive child and few if any of my childhood treasures remain. >:(
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: Swift Fox on April 08, 2019, 05:20:43 am: Great to see you still having fun with the engine that started it all Rog!, i have to say you have looked after it very well.

I ran my Wilesco Old Smokey Roller not so long ago which was my first engine bought in 2003 and very special to me, still runs great despite a bit of dezinc on the boiler.
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: Jim on March 21, 2019, 05:30:37 pm: Looks terrific Rog, how fantastic to have it still after all these years, a very very special engine.
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: IndianaRog on March 21, 2019, 04:36:39 pm: Quote from: bamsefar1 on March 21, 2019, 03:39:05 pm
I enjoyed that video alot, my friend.
Even if monitary value may be moderate; that engine must be worth a million in affectional value :-)
How long time from your initial introduction to modelsteam until you got your second model; and which was that ?

:-)

Ola, having gotten that engine in 1961, I played with it for a few years, then teen years came along and engine went on a shelf until late 2002 when I re-discovered steam.

Bought my second engine in early 2003...a Jensen 25. So more than 40 years from first to second engine...but I made up for that lapse with more than 100 additional engines over the next 15 years. Now I am down to 26 total and they are very dear to me and far more manageable.

Rog
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: bamsefar1 on March 21, 2019, 03:39:05 pm: I enjoyed that video alot, my friend.
Even if monitary value may be moderate; that engine must be worth a million in affectional value :-)
How long time from your initial introduction to modelsteam until you got your second model; and which was that ?

:-)
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: Griffin on March 20, 2019, 01:16:46 pm: Nice engine, and a great video.

Always a pleasure to watch your well crafted video's
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: Steamloco on March 20, 2019, 09:51:35 am: It's great you still have your first one. I have my first, Wilesco D10, but I ran it to near death.
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: MrandMrsferrysteam on March 20, 2019, 09:42:05 am: You must have been a better kid than me Rog, I've got nothing from my childhood, I was too destructive, different now though. Lovely engine.....Allan. :)
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: Kevin68 on March 20, 2019, 09:25:54 am: A splendid looking engine Rog. Amazing condition along with a nice video.
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: classixs on March 20, 2019, 04:11:19 am: Lovely engine, and in an amazingly nice condition (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji7.png)

So happy that you got that Iphone uploading figured out Rog, been missing your movies (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji123.png)(https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji106.png)(https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji482.png)
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: Nick on March 20, 2019, 12:27:28 am: So great to see another new steam video from you Rog! ;D
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: jkbixby on March 19, 2019, 06:23:58 pm: That's great Rog that you still have it and in such good condition - anything I had at ten has been destroyed for over 64 years (yes, I'm 74)! :)
Title: Re: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: Pete the steam on March 19, 2019, 04:32:59 pm: They are great little engines Rog. Top banana
Title: My very first steam engine received 1961 for my 10th birthday
Post by: IndianaRog on March 19, 2019, 04:26:21 pm: This engine, it's box, funnel, fuel tray and stack have all been with me now for 58 years (yes, I am 68). Just to show that I have finally figured out how to directly load video from an iphone 6 to YouTube...here is a recent quick video of my Fleischmann 122/3:

https://youtu.be/I7cRRicM3ro

Rog