7 1/2” Gauge

Editors note 5-18-24:
I just want to thank each and every one of you for your support in this video. I did not expect this to blow up as big as it did.
As of today, it hit 10,000 views! That said, and within a month? I’m absolutely speechless!
Thank you all so very much, and I really do appreciate all of you leaving feedback and encouragement! It means the world to me!!!
Be sure to watch in 1080p, I uploaded this as the best quality possible!
A fantastic day at the Riverside Live Steamers!
I got to experience a coal fired K-28 #476 which still is an almost exact scaled down version of the real locomotive running today.
I’d like to give my good friend Scotty a shoutout for his excellent work and dedication to this club. And I am privileged to have been able to experience this.
Be sure to give his channel a sub as well, as he’s made some good content.
I hope you enjoy the video, and I look forward to seeing more live steam in the future here at RLS!!!
Enjoy!!!
#livesteam #drgw #476 #riversidelivesteamers #railroading #steamlocomotive #trains #railroad #miniaturerailway #livesteamtrains

[@adamgswanson]

AWESOME VIDEO MARC!!!

[@robertsanders6463]

Best whistle on a small engine I have ever heard! Beautiful locomotive!

[@RioGrande486]

I wish I was half as cool as the guy who built that thing. That has to be one of the most beautiful live steamers I’ve ever seen, and it has a great whistle too!

[@chrispasini5870]

Beautiful locomotive Love the old Rio grande narrow gauge

[@chrispasini5870]

220??

[@chrispasini5870]

Like the stylized 476

[@rrsteamer]

Very nice job. The whistle is about as close to the full size Rio Grande whistles as can be.

[@robingagnon9659]

wow that is super cool! that K-28 is superb :) thanks for sharing this video

[@AustNRail]

From Sydney Australia, I very much enjoyed your video.

[@anklebiterwoodworks2818]

I thought I recognized the park in Riverside, CA! I spent the first 7 years of my life in Colton and would go there with my dad and grandpa back in the early 80s (Born 1980). For the longest time we had thought it was closed down for years, but, decided to see if it may still be there and go for my son's 3rd birthday. Such awesome childhood memories I have riding these trains and the ones at Orange Empire in Perris as a child and being able to share with my wife and our son.

[@dakotaplayz3988]

Very cool video!

[@patricknoveski6409]

Well , everyone agrees 👍. This engine is just beautiful ! As are the others. But this one is so Americana.

[@TroublesomeSlateTruck]

Wonderful Work.

[@tedlawrence4189]

The engineer is almost as big as the locomotive! LOL. I always laugh, when I see these old guys riding on those trains, like kids do on train rides at amusement parks.

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

That is an amazing scaled-down model of a K-28 class Mikado and it’s even better that it’s a model of my favorite of the three surviving locomotives number 476 it’s worth mentioning that 2023 was marked the 100th of all three locomotives on the Durango and Silverton and happy to say that 478 will be restored back to operating condition and for the first time since the 1990s the surviving Trio of K-28 Class locomotives will be operating together once again

[@2quintly]

Good show, I have visited the layout before.

[@danielboone3770]

Love it! 😍😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩

[@OsKxShadowzZ]

was this the locomotive that used to be at Dobwalls many years ago?

[@GLENBR0]

I just read 7 1/2" and saw a K-28 so I immediately clicked

[@FuelFire]

I want to get my hands on a 5 inch 473 because I'm planning on building a 5' gauge railroad around our house

[@mikewinkelman7015]

The smell of coal got to love it.

[@timstandish2025]

any way to get complete set of drawings for the locomotive/tender and caboose? would love to build myself

[@_mdh_1998]

Those plans are long gone, but the locomotive can be seen at the Riverside live steamers. You could get lucky and catch the new owner and talk to him about it as well as get photos for reference. It is a 1/1 build and no other has been produced to my knowledge.

[@robertrussell2166]

Is the K28 based at Riverside or just a visitor?

[@rjstandland4459]

It looks like 7.5 narrow gauge loco. You get a little bigger engine that your average standard gauge.

[@SceneMcBride]

Can anyone speak to how it was manufactured? Particularly the boiler and class specific castings? Thanks

[@ethanpiscitello188]

Awww, baby 476!

[@Engineer5344]

does harry haas still own 476 or did he sell it?

[@_mdh_1998]

It is in the hands of a new owner, all cars and loco. I will tell you, it’s loved where it’s at. And will continue to be taken care of the way it needs to be.

[@butchthem5220]

Wow, beautiful reduced scale reproduction !

[@DeathValleyLumberCompany]

Shush

[@godlugner5327]

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