Merrick Light Locomotive shop Sept 12, 2020

[@adriannettlefold9084]

That was a great overview of what these guys are capable of, thanks for posting it.

[@ronniescott5179]

Your skill and determination to produce such a superb steam loco is wonderful. Keep up the good work.

[@raymondleggs5508]

When your model train addiction takes a full hold of you. You end up with this :-D

[@ChevyConQueso]

If I won the lotto, I'd buy my ranch and have my dream fabrication shop put in so I could work on hotrods all day. I think I'd have to install a miniature railroad around the ranch too for the hell of it. These are super cool!

[@ichabodon]

We Brits have lots of small heritage railways and you are certainly keeping up with us! Well done and look forward to seeing it running

[@phantombrakeman4983]

I believe that it was in the late 90's that Darrell Klompmaker (who was General Manager at Whiskey River RR and Merrick Light Locomotive works) made a trip to England to see two of the 15" gauge railroads. I know one was the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch. He told me that just when he thought that they (Whiskey River) had quite the grand scale railroad, he saw the RH&DC and knew that he has a long way to go still. Was very impressed with their operation. Today, Darrell is paying the bank to own what Lee left when he passed away.

[@bobnileski614]

Absolutely spectacular!! Wow that would be great to see in person.

[@JCmilwaukee]

Yeah I saw that in person it’s flipping huge and the tenders actually comfy

[@Nico93]

15 inch model trains are insane, it can almost be like the real counter part.

[@phantombrakeman4983]

Yes, grand scale is. They can be just as tough and rouged as the standard gauge train and will cause bad injuries if treated as a toy instead of respected.

[@Nico93]

@@phantombrakeman4983 ive always wondered how a japanese steam engine would look in this scale.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

This is really not a model anymore, but getting to be a small narrow gauge locomotive. As a matter of fact the earliest Maine Two Foot Gauge engines were about 12 tons and this is in the neighborhood.

[@neillist5517]

That place is awesome!

[@Mr.Rogers143]

Any idea why some of these steam locomotives have a steam chest made from a casting and other locos have steam chests made from what looks like sheet metal and tubes welded together? Is one ideal over the other? Examples: Casting: @0:37 Welded: @4:12

[@sky173]

Just amazing. My jaw hit the floor....

[@bernarddavid7714]

Une véritable oeuvre d'art… Magnifique ! …Bravo !

[@PowerTrain611]

God, what I would do to have the skills to do stuff like this...

[@HUEEY]

You can learn i believe in you. Nothing is impossible!

[@andrewward1887]

Learn to become a machinist and you will be able to make anything.

[@PowerTrain611]

@@andrewward1887 I wish I could. I would kill to own a good lathe. Been thinking of joining a club in hopes to learn that skill, but right now COVID seems to be snatching that out of the equation.

[@andrewward1887]

@@PowerTrain611 you look fairly young so plenty of time find a trade school that teaches it, good money to be made as a machinist you will never run out of work.

[@gameleader1583]

tbh i cant wait to see this 4 - 12 - 2 done

[@DmitriSkif]

Wow, it looks gorgeous!

[@josephwiese3937]

Check list - ✔Win lottery ✔Buy 400 acres ✔Build 15" or 16" railway

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

That deisel locomotive for a farm? Is it the guys toy? Because something that sized pulling enough open topped freight carriges on a really big farm could make gathering a harvest of vegetible goods more efficient then single trailers behind a tractor. Especially if the farm is not on open flat terrain - in winding valleys, that thing would be miles ahead.

[@MrAwesomedude808]

Didn’t they have a big boy or some articulated that was being regauged from 24” at one time?

[@phantombrakeman4983]

They had bought some ones 14 and 1/4 inch gauge trains years ago. The big engine was a 2-8-8-4 and the tender did get re-gauged. They have been so busy with orders that they had not worked on any of the others. Some one has bought all the 14 1/4 and took it to France where there is 14 1/4 gauge railroad to run on. Sorry I don't know where in France.

[@MrAwesomedude808]

@@phantombrakeman4983 well that might explain why I can’t seem to find it in the US. Interesting.

[@joelvale3887]

I wish I had a million dollars so they can build me my favorite steam engine.

[@lornperkins4270]

I ve seen the deisel engines like this that you can ride and pull passengers thoes engines were around $ 35,000.

[@17abcdgh]

It baffles me that that could run on the RHDR if the right gears were greased

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

I hope that 4-12-2 engine goes to the ATT&NW Railroad

[@phantombrakeman4983]

The ATT&NW is closed and for sale.

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

@@phantombrakeman4983 oh no I hope someone will buy it and keep it running

[@ericoxner9767]

This is a good sized live steamer.Nice and heavy bet it will pull a lot.Wonder where this is headed?

[@phantombrakeman4983]

It's still for sale

[@timpringle6505]

Lovely loco. Do you by chance have copies of the original drawings? I am struggling to get just a simple GA as I am trying to build a UP 9000 in Gauge 1. They are available, but I just don't seem to be able to connect with the guy that sells them.

[@phantombrakeman4983]

Sorry, I do not have a hand in the locomotive's construction. I live almost 5 hours from Merrick Light Locomotive Works in Marsell, Wisconsin. Perhaps if you contact the Locomotive Works, they could help you out. I'm pretty sure they're loco is a free-lance model and most likely not scale.

[@timpringle6505]

@@phantombrakeman4983 Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. However I have not been able to contact the Merrick Light Locomotive Works directly through their website. I will keep trying. Cheers. T

[@James-Railyard]

I want that Railroader warnings shirt.

[@junkyardboy4946]

Somebody needs to restore a e2 tank engine

[@jakeandzack5763]

Wait, *the* Gene Autry owned that Daylighr locomotive?

[@phantombrakeman4983]

It was the at the Melody Ranch where Gene Autry put on radio shows aired by CBS and lots of A and B western films along with tv westerns too.

[@tonyordaziii7250]

What would this engine length be in 1/8 scale 7.5" gauge.

[@d-fender4489]

A 4-12-2 3 cylinder locomotive

[@jamesm6638]

this locomotive is 2-cylinder

[@d-fender4489]

@@jamesm6638 ah, ok then

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

Isn't that locomotive going to The AT&TW railroad

[@phantombrakeman4983]

The frame has been there twice. Five years ago, they pushed it around to see how it was tracking. Three years ago, they test ran the chasey on air. These videos can be seen on KZbin at Alex Beams. As for the ATT&NW, it is for sale. Alex had been the general manager there.

[@jesikebiking]

Man you guys don' fool around with O/HO gague

[@southernwulf3335]

Kinda want to know what this costs to build

[@phantombrakeman4983]

My son tells me that it is about 1 and 1/2 million

[@pinkypaw6834]

What engine is the 4-12-2 based on

[@phantombrakeman4983]

Based on UP 9000 series, 4-12-2s. I believe that they are not going to make it look like the full size locomotive. Will not have the air pumps on the front of the boiler and the tender is not like the 9000s used. As of now it is not sold to anyone, so right now it's going to be free lanced. If I got my info right.

[@whispofwords2590]

@@phantombrakeman4983 wait, they built this thing just to sell it?

[@johnnycook6348]

The part where he was gonna disclose the sale price of that fine machine but it was edited out...was the only thing that sucked.

[@phantombrakeman4983]

Sorry, was not an edit, I was filming the tender truck and was not listening so I stopped recording and missed it. My son can't remember if it is 1.6 million or 1.4 million. What's 200,000 at this point.

[@amberschudlich3196]

What type of train is this based off of

[@tylergreen4843]

Is the big live steam locomotive a union pacific 9000?

[@phantombrakeman4983]

It is based on them but they do not plan on making it look like the UP 9000s.

[@teh744]

How will it turn? A lot of wheels....

[@jamesdash1906]

WOW !!! 🤯

[@graham2631]

Damn,that's cool shit

[@Whitehousebeetle]

What is the "light" portion??!

[@diegohorton869]

Holy crap

[@microbusss]

what kind of fuel is it gonna use?

[@phantombrakeman4983]

Number 2 diesel oil. There is a video out there of them doing a test fire up

[@adriaansmit81]

how much for the 4-12-2

[@phantombrakeman4983]

They think it will be over 1 and 1/2 million

[@asrorimaruf6329]

Wow

[@TheJimbob1603]

I wish i was his neighbor!

[@OwenIsDaBoss]

Please do that engine a favour and remove the 4 middle flanges for the drive wheels, gives it an easier time going round corners ^^

[@phantombrakeman4983]

Each drive wheel axle can slide 1" left or right. The pilot truck centers them back. Check out the video of a track test from 5 years ago and a test run with air from 3 years ago. Search Alex Beams on youtube.

[@faml13]

Nice!!!! Can anyone tell me where I can purchase the coupler or knuckle for this size scale?

[@mattevans4377]

"Model railways are just for k-"

[@Collateralcoffee]

So lame. These are supposed to be steam engines.... but they are all diesels. Fail.

[@phantombrakeman4983]

ALL the steam locomotives in this video are STEAM! They burn coal or diesel fuel. Do some research. There are videos of them running. The locomotives in the shop that are steam will operate on steam. Yes, there are also diesel hydraulic locomotives that look like diesel there too.

[@herborty8658]

Oil fired steam locomotives date back to the late 19th century.

[@user-cu9kz5ec8o]

What a ridiculous locomotive

[@jamesm6638]

not really that ridiculous, UP's 4-12-2's were highly successful, I know this locomotive is freelanced but the concept is proven

[@user-cu9kz5ec8o]

@@jamesm6638 they were designed for long, flat, straight track, and weren't "highly successful".... they were plagued with maintenance issues. Taking a long wheelbase like that around a curve is mean to the track

[@jamesm6638]

@@user-cu9kz5ec8o interesting, because UP liked them so much that they bought 88 of them... after the initial mechanical issues with the 3rd cylinder were solved, they could be found all across the system, even places like sherman hill, but after the challengers and big boys took over the more curvy mountainous areas they were used extensively on the kansas division, also in nebraska and on the line up to pocatello, Idaho... they served into the mid 50's and were loved by engineers and firemen, with one claiming "the easiest locomotive to fire, since I've been here, was a 9000. Anyone could fire a 9000, absolutely anybody". The only people who didn't like them were the shop crews and people keeping track of expenses, but that could be said for any 3-cylinder class... so yeah, for what they are, I'd consider them highly successful

[@user-cu9kz5ec8o]

@@jamesm6638 😂