I can heatily not recommend letting locos cool without relieving pressure on
the lubricator line. Oh, sure, steam oil does get drawn into the boiler to
lubricate the boiler (a machinist did this to a loco I resurrected from
his horrid touch), but that steam oil bubbles up into a foam that
to all
I have been using filtered rain water for years, as do most people in
our area, without any negative side effects. Some of the plusses are, that drops
of pure distilled water (not battery water which is in Europe generally
filtered) leave difficult to remove stains on paintwork. Filtered
