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Tony, I will be watching this - you sure are a glutton for challenges!

Absolutely beautiful!! The glowing comments above are well deserved!

The Eppleton Hall was the Tug that my family members operated. She was sailed over to USA after being restored. Went through the Panama canal ending up in San Francisco in the maritime museum. I visited her there - quite an emotional time for me. She is now derelict once again as I...

I certainly enjoy the banter and especially the workmanship of you characters!! Wish my machining skills were half as good as what I see on this site! keep up the entertainment - thanks for the opportunity to watch and learn. My great grandfather lived up in Sunderland and South Shields...

Very nice engine. Sounds like you can get significant work out of it! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome! Congratulations/

Fascinating stuff - obviously there are more ways than one to skin a cat! Keep it cool and enjoy the hobby.

Find it a good home with a club or individual that knows how to care for it and value it for what it represents. These are works of art and NOT a dime a dozen. There is a great Model steam engine club in Cardiff, I have been there. At least one of the members has been active on this site -...

I enjoyed the video! Thanks for posting. Somehow the video took me back to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Movie with Dick Van Dyke - just "too Cool".

Absolutely incredible! A very Avant Garde design, beautifully executed! I would love to see it running. Does the Gantry work? The oil lights? All I can say is "W O W"

Best Wishes to all for a better and healthier New Year!!

Incredible work. I too have completed one from castings. Yours is Waaaay better. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Thee issues cover the complete build. They are still available online.

I have built the same engine from the same plans and article. It runs great! my original plan was to put it in a sidewheel tugboat, unfortunately life is too short for that to come about

Now how are you to pull the other leg?????

I made this engine this past year, runs well. As a child I was on a tugboat operated by my grand-uncles. It was driven by two of these engines, one for each side paddlewheel. I spent years looking for plans for this. I am now too old to make another and install them in a model ship of my...

Beautiful!

Chuck, I am saddened to read your post, but Happy to know you, and to have read and learned from your many posts. The time and effort you have spent in teaching myself, and many other neophytes in this hobby, is greatly appreciated. I personally cannot thank you enough for your contribution...

Coming along nicely! Merry Christmas - I hope the Fat Bearded Gentlemen brought you some new toys for your shop!!:) Thanks for sharing.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all members, may your Holidays be Healthy Happy and Memorable. From Snowy North Dakota - Cogsy, you can take all the snow you want! Better still come and share it! Regards DW