It appears the king of US plastic locomotives has finally made good on his promise of building a live steamer! For those of you attending the show in Denver - PLEASE take photos and let us know how it looks!
>From the photo's at this website the following 'appears' to be the case: piston valves, plastic boiler shell (yes you read that correctly!) sound system including steam chuff?!? Butane fired with radio controlled ignition. Sounds interesting!?!?! Check it out here: http://www.aristocraft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009611 and here: http://www.largescaleonline.com/cgi-bin/library/show.cgi?id=aclivesteam2004 Kindest Regards, PeteH