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BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
BUILDING THE SHAY LIVE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
The Shay locomotive is an amazing piece of machinery! If you've never built a Live Steam Locomotive, this is the one to start with because Kozo here explaines every detail you'll need to know to build every single part and to apply that knowledge to the building of any other steam locomotive.
"To hear one in the forests would quicken the pulse as the staccato exhausts gave the impression of a locomotive at high speed, roaring along the track to meet a scheduled arrival in some distant city, only to be greeted by a sight that simply couldn't fit in with the sounds!
Out of the woods would come a locomotive at a most casual pace. Surely it was a locomotive, even though the boiler was off center and there were no big drive wheels spinning or polished massive side rods flailing. The train of log cars followed along behind rocking slowly as they clunked over the rail joints - constantly belying the plume of smoke and the roaring exhausts pouring from the engine."
Developed back in 1877 by an inventive Michigan lumberman, Ephraim Shay, these locomotives proved most capable of hauling great loads of logs from the forests to the mills over some of the most miserable trackwork imaginable.
Sharp curves, steep grades and record loadings never seemed to stop the "Limeys" as they were known to the lumberman. "Limey" was a colloquialism taken from the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, where the Shays were built.
Model railroaders and Live Steamers, too, have held a warm spot in their hearts for the "sidewinders" but not until this text appeared were there any step-by-step instructions for building an operating Live Steam model of these locomotives.
Published originally in LIVE STEAM Magazine, a survey indicated that over a thousand locomotives have been, or are being, built from these instructions.
A large number of conventional rod-type Live Steam engines have been built and their building instructions published but none for geared locomotives such as the Shay, Climax and Heisler.
These particular types of working models require some special design considerations as well as parts not found on ordinary engines. The three-throw crankshaft, the geared trucks, the axle-driven pump and the lubrication system are some examples. The author solved these problems in practical ways that can be carried out by the amateur in his home workshop.
This book, then, contains the instructions for building a 3/4" scale Live Steam Shay Geared Locomotive. It includes drawings of all the parts required as well as illustrated step-by-step procedures for fabricating the major parts.
Added to the original text are chapters covering operation and maintenance of the locomotive and expanded instruction for building a Shay in 1" and 1-1/2" scales.
For the builders' reference, all the author's tools used in building this engine are described. It should be noted that the kinds and number of tools are fewer and are smaller than might ordinarily be thought.
Neither big nor expensive tools are required for this hobby. Even with limited machine tools, you can build a beautiful Live Steam locomotive if you are given good instructions.
However, this book has not been written exclusively for Shay builders, but for Live Steamers building more conventional locomotives as well.
Although the geared locomotive is an unusual one, the individual techniques and principles involved are the same as (and applicable to) any type of working model locomotive.
Using the versatile methods shown in this book, a Live Steam locomotive builder can improve his work and produce parts not otherwise available to him.
This is called the biginner's engine because of the detail of the instruction. If you've built similar projects before you're in for a real treat! If you have never built such a project you may start with the confidence that you will be able to easily master the lessons and acquire the skils that will set you apart!
Your first step is to own this book! Clear off the bench - let's get started!
8-1/2" X 11" Hard cover w/dust jacket 194 pages of very well illustrated pages of detailed instructions and dimensioned drawings.
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