You got your money's worth out of that u- joint... it owes you nothing.

Very interesting. God bless your project!

Just beautiful... Excellent movie. Amazing story about the builder plates.

Indonesian hadir

The puffing and chuffing from that little machine was THUNDEROUS

Something you might want to keep in mind, the horncheeks either side of the axleboxes, generally they have a magnesium alloy wear plates, if you add oil you will attract dirt which will cause increased wear, plus the design of the wear plates adds friction so the loco doesn't bounce on the coil springs, which will also cause variations to the adhesion on the wheels. Also when you are getting wheelslip in wet slippery conditions you can apply a small amount of brake which will limit the wheels from slipping so easily, it may seem like a odd thing to do, by applying the brake a little bit you are no longer relying on just the adhesion of the wheel to the rail, in order for the wheels to slip they also have to slip on the brakes as well. I use to drive cane 40 ton locos in Queensland Australia on 2ft gauge hauling rakes of cane bins weighing up to 1500 tons.

what I love about this tractor is you can literally build one from plate steel and I beams . every part of it other then the engine transmission and rear diff is all plate shaped to fit . the I beam part is to make the track links which you can get from cutting up the flange of the beam in to section and welding on the plates to follow the runners . even the drive sprocket is made from plate . God now I want to build one you just can't beat simple design .

Thanks for the vid!

It's one of those gas engines that sounds like a Diesel. I had a Poulan Pro lawn mower with an iron block 18 hp Kohler Magnum flat head opposed twin engine and it had that kind of Diesel sound to it as well. That was an engine that didn't like cold weather as it often backfired so hard out the mufflers that sometimes it ruptured them and then I spent time putting them back together. You read right, it had dual exhaust and a new muffler was CA$200 each. It was a great little engine when it was running, but was an absolute pig on gas.

sir.. sand

Abandoned big boy lol

Here in England full size trains get stuck by a few wet leaves on the tracks...

Note for the engineer department: Fit snow scrapers to front just above the tracks.

shame the engines have to sit outside.

MOdel T engine?

Wow, that's a cool epilepsy show

Good Luck with the expansion! Merry Christmas.

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I like the shiny furniture hardware on the louvers...

Lucky, I've wanted one if those for a while. Is this part a layout coming soon?

Hust kive me a critter.

Boy is she dusty 😅 I always enjoyed watching that train setup going

I fuckin need this❤ (I work on a 2 foot gauge railway, AVLR)

All the Chevy sixes seem to be good could weather starters, I had several of them back in the 2 of weeks -30 days.

I want one

That 800 at Walmart

Great Video of Some Interesting Trains !😊 Thanks for Sharing !😊

Maybe add some sanders to the engines to help get traction. Cool video. A whistle of some kind would be cool too. Nice video

What brand of motor is in it?

You need a sanding s6stem on there

Having that little peek hole in the floorboard you ought to build a traction sander. All you'd need is a weep valve, a short length of hose or copper tubing and a 2 liter pop bottle!

Just a comment on the Plymouth ( FRH corporation ) Plymouth,Ohio. I retired from the RR industry 12 years ago and knew and woked with Walter Donnenwirth who was the shop foreman at Plymouth for many years. I always enjoyed working with him and listening to his life and traveling to other countries for the company.

Finally i can see more to Plymouth

I like that cute little beastie. Engine sounds sweet.

You gonna need to put some sanders on the Plymouth and the Porter for winter operations. Could be a fun winter project. 😉😊 That's assuming you "need" any more projects 😰

A snow plow would be a smart project to add to the plymoth

Giving you a thumbs up and comment a couple minutes into the video. 🤭

Sadly another firm that has passed on. To think at one time they made locomotives clay extruding machinery and farm tractors marketed as Silver King

I got run a standard guage Plymouth mechanical drive locomotive and I must say, compared to a diesel electric, it was strange. I had to work a clutch and a transmission like a regular truck.

It would have been interesting seeing these running out at Baraboo between the assembly buildings as I believe they had 23 Mi of Narrow Gauge trackage. They had their original fleet from the 1940s which basically got traded in on this newer style. Plus they had the largest group of Rogers Brothers locomotives thankfully some of which were saved. Snow plowing must have been interesting

That's the cutest little steam locomotive I've ever seen. It looks like a toy, but she's beautiful all the same.

Nice ride

It was built in 1896???

That Union Pacific Big Boy be looking very dusty

We germans call it feldbahb

Wow it does snow Thier

It takes a lot of skill to run steam. You're doing great!!!!❤❤

IS THIS YOUR GASSER!?

That is a cute Plymouth!! That's probably one of the smaller ones I've seen.

Cool ol rig