Bruce, just noticed this... Excellent work to bring that engine back. Apart from the steel boiler, that seems like a well-designed little engine, and very cute to boot!
Paula
Thanks Paula
This fell into my lap on facebook marketplace and I know all to well the draw back to the steel boiler, thought I'd take a chance and hope it was sound, as with most of these it was not. But it was only the center of the bottom that was week, after replacing the bottom with a copper plate I thought about repainting the whole thing...but decided it looked good enough as is.