Re: no, the list isn't broken ...

[TrotFox Greyfoot]

Dave,

Wonderful to hear the story of a relaxing time.  : ]

I just realised that it's been months since I made any steam...

I really need to get my Ruby fixed and some track on the ground.  ; ]

Trot, the untimely, fox...

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Re: no, the list isn't broken ...NOW Saturday Steamup

[Geoff Spenceley]

Thanks Clark,
Great activity and pics,  wonderful steaming. Really steamed the 
cockles of me heart after muddying myself up cleaning the pond- It's 
one messy job, found bottom fish I didn't realise were still alive!

Would you please move Vegas closer to Humboldt County, we have so few 
steamers that are really active! Fortunately I have one friend who 
lives a block away so we often have a steam up of two!

Thanks again for sharing!! BTW where is a pic of Lord Clark steaming??
Geoff.


Well we did run trains yesterday at my monthly steamup.  14 fellas 
attended and several ran trains.  I only got a few photos as I was 
busy hosting.  So here is what was on my camera's memory card when I 
looked just now.

http://home.earthlink.net/~clarklord/Steamup/
Bob Sorenson has scratch built a 0-4-0 alcohol fired steamer.  The 
first runs in January proved it needed a better burner.  The next 
runs in February showed it needed a better firebox and alcohol feed 
system. Yesterday's runs showed it made lots of steam but needed 
viton o-rings in the cylinders as the graphited yard had blown out 
of the piston groove.

By April it will be a killer engine.  A one of a kind 1:20.3 British 
outline shunting engine.

Dave Hottmann Garrett and GarrettGramps are all about Dave Hottmann 
(seen next to the track in the first photo along with Steve Davis 
looking on) and his Accucraft conversion of two Superior 0-6-2T 
engines into a 0-6-0 + 0-6-0 Superior Garrett.  The Gramps cars are 
1:20.3 Bachman tank cars.

Next is my dear friend Lou Banning.  Lou has been helping me over 
the past several years to build and maintain my large track.  He has 
always been there when I needed a hand.  Thank you Louis.  In 
several photos you can see a DRG&W green passenger train which 
belongs to Lou.

RubyReefer is of my very own Ruby with three of my 18 Accucraft 
Reefers being operated by Bob Sorenson's 11 year old son Andy.  Hook 
em early I say.

SteveDavisMimi is of his engine hauling his kit bashed car set. 
Steve owns ride on sized 7 1/2 inch gauge engines and we are both 
Riverside Live Steamers members.  I invited him to one of the 
monthly steamups several months ago and it looks like the gauge one 
bug is bitting.

In GarrettGramps 03&04 you see several fellas.  And you see a string 
of Southern Railway Bulleid coaches of mine.  Out in front of those 
is Frank Russo's SNCF 232 U1 which is alcohol fired.  Frank got his 
exercise yesterday running that engine.  It does have a touchy 
throttle.  But then when you watch Tony Dixon run his coal fired 
version of the same engine, it's off to the races.  Both really zoom 
around the layout.

Lastly in GarrettGramps 06 you see the table and Webber Kettle where 
I prepared lunch for the guys on steamup Saturday.  Yesterday it was 
hamburgers with all the fixings and potato salad.

I must give credit to Jim Crabb of Seabrook Texas (near Houston) for 
inspiring me to host monthly steamups.  It was Jim who was doing 
that very thing in Houston and I could see that would be a good way 
to get our Las Vegas Gauge One live steam community up and running. 
We've been at this monthly business for 2-3 years now.  At first 
there was just Lou Banning and me but now we've grown to 15 or so 
fellas and about half turn up with engines to run and the rest enjoy 
the fellowship.

I know the Seattle bunch are now having two steamups a month and 
they are cooking lunch also.  What I'm getting at is... YOU can do 
the same thing in your area.  It's amazing just how much fun you can 
have for very little cost.  Think about doing it.  With the advent 
of Accucraft's line of engines there are many folks who own one (or 
more) and need a track upon which to operate.  And all of us who 
have Aster, Roundhouse, DJB, etc. engines can show em how it's done. 
:)

A few phone calls or emails will bring them out of the wood work. 
Knowing that every month (rain or shine) a steamup will happen makes 
folks look forward to attending.  If you have enough layouts you can 
do the round robin kind of thing that the Puget Sound GRS live 
steamers do. They are blessed with a PSGRS owned live steam 
modular layout which is setup all the time (when not at a trade 
show) and several persons who have live steam tracks at their homes.

The bottom line is ... Just Do It.
  Cheers
  Clark

Clark B Lord - Las Vegas, Nevada   USA
Las Vegas Live Steamers - Gauge 1 live steam
Treasurer, Las Vegas Garden Railway Society
Member, Steam Events LLC
Dave Cole wrote:
... unless it is and then i won't see this message move over it.
it's been a week since the last posting to the list and in recent 
hours a number of people have e-mailed me to say that they are no 
longer getting the list. you are. there just haven't been any 
messages for you to receive.
//snip//
the irony here is that i was going to exhort you to contribute to 
the list, but i think that's a wrong thing to say. if i'm going to 

Re: no, the list isn't broken ...NOW Saturday Steamup

[Clark Lord]

Well we did run trains yesterday at my monthly steamup.  14 fellas 
attended and several ran trains.  I only got a few photos as I was busy 
hosting.  So here is what was on my camera's memory card when I looked 
just now.

http://home.earthlink.net/~clarklord/Steamup/
Bob Sorenson has scratch built a 0-4-0 alcohol fired steamer.  The first 
runs in January proved it needed a better burner.  The next runs in 
February showed it needed a better firebox and alcohol feed system. 
Yesterday's runs showed it made lots of steam but needed viton o-rings 
in the cylinders as the graphited yard had blown out of the piston groove.

By April it will be a killer engine.  A one of a kind 1:20.3 British 
outline shunting engine.

Dave Hottmann Garrett and GarrettGramps are all about Dave Hottmann 
(seen next to the track in the first photo along with Steve Davis 
looking on) and his Accucraft conversion of two Superior 0-6-2T engines 
into a 0-6-0 + 0-6-0 Superior Garrett.  The Gramps cars are 1:20.3 
Bachman tank cars.

Next is my dear friend Lou Banning.  Lou has been helping me over the 
past several years to build and maintain my large track.  He has always 
been there when I needed a hand.  Thank you Louis.  In several photos 
you can see a DRG&W green passenger train which belongs to Lou.

RubyReefer is of my very own Ruby with three of my 18 Accucraft Reefers 
being operated by Bob Sorenson's 11 year old son Andy.  Hook em early I say.

SteveDavisMimi is of his engine hauling his kit bashed car set.  Steve 
owns ride on sized 7 1/2 inch gauge engines and we are both Riverside 
Live Steamers members.  I invited him to one of the monthly steamups 
several months ago and it looks like the gauge one bug is bitting.

In GarrettGramps 03&04 you see several fellas.  And you see a string of 
Southern Railway Bulleid coaches of mine.  Out in front of those is 
Frank Russo's SNCF 232 U1 which is alcohol fired.  Frank got his 
exercise yesterday running that engine.  It does have a touchy throttle. 
 But then when you watch Tony Dixon run his coal fired version of the 
same engine, it's off to the races.  Both really zoom around the layout.

Lastly in GarrettGramps 06 you see the table and Webber Kettle where I 
prepared lunch for the guys on steamup Saturday.  Yesterday it was 
hamburgers with all the fixings and potato salad.

I must give credit to Jim Crabb of Seabrook Texas (near Houston) for 
inspiring me to host monthly steamups.  It was Jim who was doing that 
very thing in Houston and I could see that would be a good way to get 
our Las Vegas Gauge One live steam community up and running.  We've been 
at this monthly business for 2-3 years now.  At first there was just Lou 
Banning and me but now we've grown to 15 or so fellas and about half 
turn up with engines to run and the rest enjoy the fellowship.

I know the Seattle bunch are now having two steamups a month and they 
are cooking lunch also.  What I'm getting at is... YOU can do the same 
thing in your area.  It's amazing just how much fun you can have for 
very little cost.  Think about doing it.  With the advent of Accucraft's 
line of engines there are many folks who own one (or more) and need a 
track upon which to operate.  And all of us who have Aster, Roundhouse, 
DJB, etc. engines can show em how it's done.  :)

A few phone calls or emails will bring them out of the wood work. 
Knowing that every month (rain or shine) a steamup will happen makes 
folks look forward to attending.  If you have enough layouts you can do 
the round robin kind of thing that the Puget Sound GRS live steamers do. 
They are blessed with a PSGRS owned live steam modular layout which 
is setup all the time (when not at a trade show) and several persons who 
have live steam tracks at their homes.

The bottom line is ... Just Do It.
  Cheers
  Clark

Clark B Lord - Las Vegas, Nevada   USA
Las Vegas Live Steamers - Gauge 1 live steam
Treasurer, Las Vegas Garden Railway Society
Member, Steam Events LLC
Dave Cole wrote:
... unless it is and then i won't see this message move over it.
it's been a week since the last posting to the list and in recent hours 
a number of people have e-mailed me to say that they are no longer 
getting the list. you are. there just haven't been any messages for you 
to receive.
//snip//
the irony here is that i was going to exhort you to contribute to the 
list, but i think that's a wrong thing to say. if i'm going to be so 
presumptuous in telling you to do anything, it should be to go out and 
run a train today.

\dmc

Re: no, the list isn't broken ...

[Geoff Spenceley]

.Thanks Dave,
Probably income tax too!!  Didn't mean to get nasty on a nasty subject!
 I have been assembling some wagon kits and generally fiddling   in 
the yard  (not Brit "Fiddling" yards!!) as we host the GR club meet 
next Sunday. Then it'll probably rain, some hardy souls will steam 
while the ladies chat and watch videos.--Ah--but the wine flows and 
there is   lovely food  provided by all.  We also celebrated our 60th 
(wedding I mean) on Feb 26th. I've been playing with trains much 
longer  than that, it's me bloody age --however we did go on our 
honeymoon on a train through London,  it's very strange, for some 
reason I didn't pay much attention to the train! Tch, Tch!

 Right now, with the help of Carl Malone, I am attempting to make 
Kadee coupling arrangements for the Darjeeling Twin Mountain (Carl) 
coaches. Those prototype couplings are fiddly!  --but-- realistic so 
I would like to make the Kadees as inconspicuous as possible.

Now back to the pond--I'm draining and cleaning it .
Thanks for writing to us all. Can't wait until July 20!
Geoff
.. unless it is and then i won't see this message move over it.
it's been a week since the last posting to the list and in recent 
hours a number of people have e-mailed me to say that they are no 
longer getting the list. you are. there just haven't been any 
messages for you to receive.

not that it is of any particular import or interest to anybody but 
myself, but last night i ran the ruby for a group of my wife's 
friends. in the fickle weather of the sf bay area -- amplified by 
our proximity to the ocean -- you never really know what the 
weather's going to be like but last night it was cool, clear and 
crisp. a couple of people who live in the city commented that they 
could see stars.

there were a couple of sparkies in the crowd, but mostly non-train 
people. yes, it makes real steam, yes it's hot, yes there's water in 
there.

but they soon tired of the demonstration and drifted back into the 
house (though the call that dessert was being served may have helped 
change their focus). there was still gas in the ruby and the plume 
was wonderful, so i sat there for a few minutes watching the engine 
go 'round and 'round the layout.

after a particularly tough week -- soon to be followed by another 
two or three -- i realized that it had (again) been weeks and weeks 
since i fired up an engine. i had an opportunity to run yesterday 
afternoon at the bagrs event, but i didn't even bring an engine.

i have made this investment (bought locomotives, built rolling 
stock, built a layout) and i just don't use it enough.

the irony here is that i was going to exhort you to contribute to 
the list, but i think that's a wrong thing to say. if i'm going to 
be so presumptuous in telling you to do anything, it should be to go 
out and run a train today.

\dmc
--
^^^
Dave Cole
Gen'l Sup't:  Grand Teton & Everglades Steam Excursion Co.
  Pacifica, Calif. USA  
List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers
  
ATTEND THE NATIONAL SUMMER STEAMUP IN SACRAMENTO, JULY 20-24, 2005
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RE: no, the list isn't broken ...

[Michael Martin]

Dave,

Well said!  I hope to boil some water before the weekend has ended and the
blur of the week begins.  It has indeed been too long.

Mike Martin

_



so i sat there for a few minutes watching the engine
go 'round and 'round the layout.

...go out and run a train today.

\dmc


 

RE: no, the list isn't broken ...

[George Crawford]

That bit of soul bearing was beuatiful Dave. Isn't great, that after a hard day or week or even month, how a little piece of acient technology known as a steam engine can put you at peace?
Keep your steam up and yes I will try to contribute more to the list
Noel
Original Message Follows
From: Dave Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: no, the list isn't broken ...
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:23:04 -0800

... unless it is and then i won't see this message move over it.

it's been a week since the last posting to the list and in recent hours a number of people have e-mailed me to say that they are no longer getting the list. you are. there just haven't been any messages for you to receive.

not that it is of any particular import or interest to anybody but myself, but last night i ran the ruby for a group of my wife's friends. in the fickle weather of the sf bay area -- amplified by our proximity to the ocean -- you never really know what the weather's going to be like but last night it was cool, clear and crisp. a couple of people who live in the city commented that they could see stars.

there were a couple of sparkies in the crowd, but mostly non-train people. yes, it makes real steam, yes it's hot, yes there's water in there.

but they soon tired of the demonstration and drifted back into the house (though the call that dessert was being served may have helped change their focus). there was still gas in the ruby and the plume was wonderful, so i sat there for a few minutes watching the engine go 'round and 'round the layout.

after a particularly tough week -- soon to be followed by another two or three -- i realized that it had (again) been weeks and weeks since i fired up an engine. i had an opportunity to run yesterday afternoon at the bagrs event, but i didn't even bring an engine.

i have made this investment (bought locomotives, built rolling stock, built a layout) and i just don't use it enough.

the irony here is that i was going to exhort you to contribute to the list, but i think that's a wrong thing to say. if i'm going to be so presumptuous in telling you to do anything, it should be to go out and run a train today.

\dmc

--
^^^
Dave Cole
Gen'l Sup't:  Grand Teton & Everglades Steam Excursion Co.
   Pacifica, Calif. USA  
List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers
   

ATTEND THE NATIONAL SUMMER STEAMUP IN SACRAMENTO, JULY 20-24, 2005
For more information, visit the web site at 

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no, the list isn't broken ...

[Dave Cole]

... unless it is and then i won't see this message move over it.
it's been a week since the last posting to the list and in recent 
hours a number of people have e-mailed me to say that they are no 
longer getting the list. you are. there just haven't been any 
messages for you to receive.

not that it is of any particular import or interest to anybody but 
myself, but last night i ran the ruby for a group of my wife's 
friends. in the fickle weather of the sf bay area -- amplified by our 
proximity to the ocean -- you never really know what the weather's 
going to be like but last night it was cool, clear and crisp. a 
couple of people who live in the city commented that they could see 
stars.

there were a couple of sparkies in the crowd, but mostly non-train 
people. yes, it makes real steam, yes it's hot, yes there's water in 
there.

but they soon tired of the demonstration and drifted back into the 
house (though the call that dessert was being served may have helped 
change their focus). there was still gas in the ruby and the plume 
was wonderful, so i sat there for a few minutes watching the engine 
go 'round and 'round the layout.

after a particularly tough week -- soon to be followed by another two 
or three -- i realized that it had (again) been weeks and weeks since 
i fired up an engine. i had an opportunity to run yesterday afternoon 
at the bagrs event, but i didn't even bring an engine.

i have made this investment (bought locomotives, built rolling stock, 
built a layout) and i just don't use it enough.

the irony here is that i was going to exhort you to contribute to the 
list, but i think that's a wrong thing to say. if i'm going to be so 
presumptuous in telling you to do anything, it should be to go out 
and run a train today.

\dmc
--
^^^
Dave Cole
Gen'l Sup't:  Grand Teton & Everglades Steam Excursion Co.
  Pacifica, Calif. USA  
List Mom: sslivesteam, the list of small-scale live steamers
  
ATTEND THE NATIONAL SUMMER STEAMUP IN SACRAMENTO, JULY 20-24, 2005
For more information, visit the web site at 
^^^