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Pretty nice set-up there Travis!

You've asked for our thoughts, so here are a couple from me.

Shortening up your steam line from the boiler to the engine should help a lot in getting everything to run a bit dryer and not spitting so much condensate.

You can up the boiler pressure on a Jensen rather easily by simply doubling the spring on the safety valve, or stretching the one that is on it, or replacing it with a stiffer spring. Any of these techniques do need to be approached with some reasonable caution, but as long as done in a reasonable manner should provide for increased boiler pressure potential. I generally like my Jensen boilers to operate around 25 - 30 psi, but anything over 20 and I'll likely not mess with it.

Were it me, I'd mount the whistle inside of the elbow on your steam line, that is between the steam valve and the elbow, so that you have one less leverage arm that might turn under pressure of pulling the whistle valve and possibly leak steam.

Looks to me like you are having great fun playing with steam here ....... good on ya!!!