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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Live Steam Locomotives => Topic started by: Inge on July 04, 2024, 10:06:40 pm

Title: Re: Another live steam loco on the St. Croix RR Highline, this one 4-3/4" Ga. 1" scale
Post by: txlabman on July 08, 2024, 11:28:08 am

Looks like a great way to spend a day.

Thanks you for sharing the video.

Title: Re: Another live steam loco on the St. Croix RR Highline, this one 4-3/4" Ga. 1" scale
Post by: Inge on July 05, 2024, 09:33:44 pm

Baldwin built 2 or 3 of these 2-4-4-2s, and they were generally not successful.  One prototype exists and was recently restored and runs on a tourist RR in California. Just google Skookum, as was it's nickname.

Title: Re: Another live steam loco on the St. Croix RR Highline, this one 4-3/4" Ga. 1" scale
Post by: Stoker on July 05, 2024, 02:19:03 pm

What an amazing little (small by articulated standards) locomotive. You sure don't show any problems with firing it, as it seems to be steaming right along in the video!

Seems the prototype for that may have been a logging loco, as they did tend to use more small articulated engines than most any mainline roads did.

Title: Another live steam loco on the St. Croix RR Highline, this one 4-3/4" Ga. 1" scale
Post by: Inge on July 04, 2024, 10:06:40 pm

Here is my 1" scale 2-4-4-2 Skookum style loco on the St Croix Highline on July 3, 2024.  Copper boiler, propane fired, you can hear the burner roar.  This one requires a fine balance between draft, throttle position, and fuel pressure to maintain proper boiler pressure.  It took me a couple of laps to get it right. Having 4 cylinders it has a healthy appetite for steam, but a very fun locomotive to operate.
https://youtu.be/SI0go9jiaOc