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Re: A Complex Machining Project
« on: July 08, 2025, 05:34:55 pm »
..... and now, only four pages of thread and a few months later, he has "finished" the engine and will start working on the tender.

Here is a link to that fourth page, however, be sure and scroll down to the last few photos on that page to see the completed engine!

The AM-2 (Articulated Mogul) Cab Forwards were used for both freight and passenger service beginning in 1927 as compound engines and were eventually converted ti simple in 1929 and renumbered to th...
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It is amazing how much of his machining work he has managed to detail in photos along the way in this thread.

Some people are just so talented and capable it makes a duffer like me positively blush!!!
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