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Office of Steam ~GLOBAL POWER-UP~ virtual engine show => ENGINEERS HALL at Our 2024 GLOBAL POWER-UP -- Virtual Engine Show…!!! => Topic started by: RedRyder on March 01, 2024, 08:48:42 pm
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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...!!!
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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
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Love that large Model Dockyard 😍
Thanks, Nick.
It is a stout beast..!!
Gil
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Love that large Model Dockyard 😍
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As I mentioned earlier, what a beautiful collection you have Gil!
Thanks again for the kind words, George.
Gil
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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
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As I mentioned earlier, what a beautiful collection you have Gil!
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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.
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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvxCAp6W8Cg
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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.
Agreed..!!
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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.
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Thanks for joining us Gil! Can’t wait till I am able to make it out to view your collection in person!!
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Interesting. Thanks for the color Gil. You are a wealth of knowledge.
What a beast at 130 lbs!
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I don't think I've ever seen the Springfield Gil. What a beautiful engine! Of all the shows I have attended I don't recall ever seeing one.
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Thank you, George!
The main reason they are not often showed in person is their weight, shape and size.
Shape and size make it very difficult for 1 person to lift and move it safely.
Weighing in at near 130 lbs it is no longer an engine I can move myself safely and easily.
Wayne built 48 of these in the mid to late 1990s.
He also built 2 opposed cylinder twins (one for himself and one for his Dad)
Gil
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I knew this was going to be a stunning table to view and as always Gil, you didn't disappoint.
A table full of candy, eye candy that is.
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Thanks, Tommy..!!
Gil
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I don't think I've ever seen the Springfield Gil. What a beautiful engine! Of all the shows I have attended I don't recall ever seeing one.
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I knew this was going to be a stunning table to view and as always Gil, you didn't disappoint.
A table full of candy, eye candy that is.
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This may be my final show entry for the 2024 Global Power-Up.
Here is the 1/2 scale model of a ca 1892 Springfield 1 HP Gas Engine.
This is a Wayne Grenning creation.
Enjoy,
Gil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffBx-TpKMLo
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You have a truly outstanding and beautiful collection Gil! Those Stuart's are impeccable!
Thank you, George..!!
I sure appreciate your kind words.
Gil
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Don was a wonderful man and an exceptional machinist.
I am grateful that Gil introduced me to him and I got to visit with him several times.
The level of detail of this locomotive will take your breath away.
Thank you for sharing the video Gil.
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I am sure glad you got to meet Don and enjoy his company.
Gil
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You have a truly outstanding and beautiful collection Gil! Those Stuart's are impeccable!
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Don was a wonderful man and an exceptional machinist.
I am grateful that Gil introduced me to him and I got to visit with him several times.
The level of detail of this locomotive will take your breath away.
Thank you for sharing the video Gil.
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What a superb machine Mr. Favell has left us, or rather left you Gil. So thanks for sharing that with us.
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I hope that you are able to finish the engine, that thing runs beyond Swiss clock works!
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In memoriam...
Here is another rarity.
Baldwin 0-4-2 Locomotive in 3.5" gauge built by my dear friend Don Favell who passed in 2021.
This was his major project during his last 5 years with us.
It still needs finishing. I have many of the parts needed in various stages of finish.
Enjoy,
Gil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6GyFhQz0j4
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Some extremely rare stuff here, I don't recall seeing the last Jensen with the external electric posts before.
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BEWARE ..... Grails and Unicorn Horns abound here!!!
Unicorn Maximus. ;D
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BEWARE ..... Grails and Unicorn Horns abound here!!!
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Next up....
A super rare (only one known) Tom Jensen Sr. built
ca 1935 4 Bolt Jensen #10 with auxiliary electric power terminals
Enjoy,
Gil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFXikMNiYo0
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Well played Gil.
I love your table.
And I am proud to be able to say that I have seen all of them in person and you were kind enough to run them for me.
Hi Charlie, running them for you was my absolute pleasure!
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Well played Gil.
I love your table.
And I am proud to be able to say that I have seen all of them in person and you were kind enough to run them for me.
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Fantastic Stuarts Gil; both in need of a nice steam launch to be installed in.
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So if Big is Beautiful, as is certainly the case with the Stuart Cygnet ... that begs the question, is twice as Big then twice as Beautiful?!?!
I think not .... Twice as Big is actually Beauty squared .... at least in this instance!!!
Thank you for the kind words, Daniel..!!
Gil
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From the same time frame as the Swan and Cygnet...
is this Stuart Turner 800, not a model but a small full sized gas engine of 1/4 HP.
There are very few of these out there.
This one was purchased as raw castings by Andrew Burr ca 1958 when he was 18 years old. A neighbor on Long Island, Harry Goodman of the Long Island Live Steamers built this one for him as well as a Stuart 5A. Harry was a highly skilled machinists and builder and did a wonderful job with this piece.
It is a hit & miss engine but rather than hold the exhaust valve open, the governor lifts a tab to stop activating the fuel injector until it needs to fire again.
In order to bring this home I had to take on 26 engines.... Andy Burr's entire model engine collection. The other 25 were all steam engines.
Enjoy!
Gil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsiaPI71yCg
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So if Big is Beautiful, as is certainly the case with the Stuart Cygnet ... that begs the question, is twice as Big then twice as Beautiful?!?!
I think not .... Twice as Big is actually Beauty squared .... at least in this instance!!!
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And here is the her big brother....
The twin cylinder Stuart Turner Swan.
Also acquired as new about 20 years ago.
Factory built by Stuart Turner at Henley on Thames.
A collector friend, Tim Mason found it in the Cabin Fever consignment tables and came to find me immediately to say he had found something I needed. He was absolutely right so I paid, brought it back to my table where the consignor, Holly Hollerith, saw it and introduced himself to me. He and I have been great friends in steam ever since and we talk regularly.
He acquired it in the early 1990s from a Sotheby's auction.
I cleaned up, kept it well oiled and run on air at home, at Cabin Fever, and the NAMES show and a few others.
Enjoy!
Gil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfkcGgZYKp4
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You need a watercraft for that beautiful monster Gil!
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Today I will show the Stuart Turner Cygnet.
This one was built by Stuart Turner at Henley on Thames ca 1950's to early 60s.
I was fortunate to acquire it in October 2021.
It was still as a new unsteamed engine although in need of a fine tuning and clean up as one might expect for a 60-70 year old machine.
Below are 3 videos telling part of the story.
Enjoy,
Gil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgMRlMmP6co
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_28ZrJINRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJelvfQqS5U
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Beautiful engines! My how times have changed! When I was a kid I would have died for a live steam engine like these, nowadays it's a box with a phone or video game under the tree.
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That all seems so right at home there in the Office of Steam!
Power On my Friend!!!
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That's some very old Iron there. I was waiting for this .😀
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First up for tonight....
A couple of Jensen #50s
These videos were shot 6 and 10 years ago.
Enjoy!
Gil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7m_a5LOMw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NTnPRFekSg