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Re: Weeden No. 1 Upright Steam Engine
« on: 10 hours ago »
  Nice engine and good video run.  Sounds
and looks like a good runner.

  You are sooooo lucky the throttle and
whistle controls are not frozen.  Nice
to see them work the way they ought.  I
wish there was a way to free them up on mine. 

Happy Steaming,
Wayne

Hey Wayne, how you been?  Got a chance to use that sight glass I sent you around xmas?

As for the throttles - not to make you more jealous, they operate like butter.  My #3 throttles are a bear to work and they are missing their rubber/bakelite insulators.  From a operation standpoint, I could image this little #1 running any better when it left the factory!

Here is what it looks like with the "boat" smoke stack - doesn't look bad and the boat doesn't mind (much).
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