I’ve got it! All i have to do is become a mechanical genius, deveop infinite skill and patience, buy a small machine shop and devote 50 years to this, maybe 100. I do have a wonderfully accommodating wife, so at least that item is settled.

@BasementEngineer

9 ай бұрын

I built a 3/4" to the foot model of a Canadian Pacific Hudson. Began in 1985 and steamed it for the first time in 1998.

@haroldpearson6025

7 ай бұрын

I'm now 82 and built my first 3.5g loco, an LBSC Tich when I was 12/15. Join a model engineering club and get help from the members. I'm on my 7th loco now!

Model Engineers are a very special breed, I have nothing but total admiration for every single one of them, passed and present.

I had the honour of meeting Martin Evans when I worked MAP in the late 70's, he was a real gentleman !!

I love the correct English- it sounds great and feels crisp. Even has correct use of quite.. back in the day when educated speech was reassuringly direct.

@areguapiri

Жыл бұрын

Most Americans can no longer speak basic grammatical English. It is pathetic in America!

@jamescerone

2 ай бұрын

@@areguapiri”proper” grammar is arbitrarily chosen by an elite few. Language is language; it’s developed by the masses and evolves as time goes on. We would be better off listening to what people are saying, not focusing on how they say it.

My grandfather made several live stream locomotives from blueprints in his tiny workshop at the back of his garage. I was lucky enough to inherit one when he passed on but what i wish more than anything now that im in my 40s is that id spent more time with him helping and learning from him. He was a very talented man.

Many of the craftsman that built great model steam engines are no longer with us. I think about the older lathes and mills they had to work with to produce the very detailed and accurate parts. I have never met any of the builders in my 75 years. I have been fortunate to build several small stationary steam engines from kits sold today.

@tigerteff015

Жыл бұрын

The day's of Bridgeport and Colchester etc are fading sway.

@15nyonker

Жыл бұрын

@@tigerteff015 You can make more working at McDonalds than you can as a apprentice machinist in a lot of cases. I’m in my 20s and I find it so sad to see a lot of skilled jobs disappearing.

@lilroc2168

6 ай бұрын

great comment ,i got my machinists paper back in hs on manual machines likes these......i was no were near as good as these gents but i knew the trade ....kids these days dont have skills like this or the aptitude for the math

I think it is an understatement to call such people "Hobbyists" A hobbyist would make one from a kit. These machines are works of art in their own right.

I met a machinist in Chicago who built 2 of these trains. They were beautiful. He spent years on them, and his wife made all of the interior fabric decor for the cars. They were amazing. I'm sure they are now in a museum.

What an awesome film! The camerawork is brilliant, and the cameraman must be a train lover for the lovingly created shots. The best live steam film I've seen! Thank you!

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for posting this, I will recommend it to other members of the Manx Steam and Model Engineering Club. Ian Beech.

I'm 19 yet I'm fascinated by the world and craft of model engineering. It covers all sorts of mechanical things that I like, from engines to locomotives to machine tools and vehicles, and even clockmaking! It's a craft I'd love to pursue :)

@user-ug1cj2nd8y

5 ай бұрын

work hard play hard... not only does it take a considerable amount of time and skill in all different aspects, it also costs alot of money, machinary and tools.

@Gearz-365

5 ай бұрын

​@@user-ug1cj2nd8y Yeah I feel like those would be my biggest obstacles, but I would still like to put in the effort

Its a beautiful and under appreciated hobby.

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

It sure is

Excellent shots of the steam driving mechanism!!

Looking at that video picture I did think it was a documentary with Sir Richard Attenborough himself, this time about model trains. But...no) Anyway, none the less a great video!

This is filmed in sweden and at 9:10 He is saying "What remains is to try out the Whistle" and then "Not so bad huh"

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

@Revolvolution737, thank you for the translation.

You're a really useful engine.

Thanks for sharing this - if I'd seen it at the time, I'd have been bitten by the engineering bug a lot sooner than I was!

You're a really useful railway.

I watched your video with delight. An exceptional work of engineering. My sincere admiration.

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

احب كثيرا ما تقوم به لاني شغوف بالقطارات المصغرة واعشق الابداع والفن والدقة في العمل الذي تفعله . اتمنى لك التوفيق مع كل الحب والتقدير.

So greatfull and amazing! I am speakless! Good job!

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

120 years ago around your Christmas tree before people had Electric in their homes you would have a live stream engine 2 inch gauge something like that going around the tree which is lit with real candles. It's amazing how nobody Burns their house down in those days with candles burning in the tree with a live stream engine circling it that was probably alcohol fueled. I guess people had more sense to not do stupid things. I've seen some of those turn of the century engines and they are like Jewels with the amount of handicraft work involved. Of course they were rather expensive but then quality pieces of equipment usually are but then with maintenance they would last forever. You have 150-year-old live steam engine from the turn of the 19th century that have outlived several of their owners.

@16-BITFPV

Жыл бұрын

There were lots of fires in the days of candles and early electricity, I had a pre-war O scale train set that was in a old house fire.

Thank you for a fantastic film. Watched from start to end. Amazing craftsmen.

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Brilliant.

Some model makers are totally brilliant in their form of constructive art !!

@gordonbeck4054

Жыл бұрын

Some of their models can't even reach a current saleable price !! They are literally price less gems of complex completion that are kept as family looms !!

@haroldpearson6025

7 ай бұрын

The live steam passenger hauling aspect of the hobby is totally under represented, it's all about table top electric. Whole TV series helping Hornby promote its business.

An American locomotive, pulling two British coaches,( A GWR coach, a LMS coach,) and a European coach! But I suppose it is part of the fun of operating a live steam railway!

@union310

Жыл бұрын

Showing you what can be built....

Imagine making one of this so realisticly that It ends up suffering a boiler explosion.

@haroldpearson6025

Жыл бұрын

Boilers are made to a very high standard with mandatory testing required.

Steam locomotive models to me are the most beautiful form of model engineering and when you see the sort of price these models bring when sold shows many others feel exactly the same.

Beautiful locomotives

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

Indeed!

i used to ride on a similar L/S train track in the late 1960's (long gone now) in Middlesbrough at Albert Park, nice memories,

A similar sized miniature Diesel passenger train was built for the 2002 Jean Claude Van Damme action film Derailed. It was a bit painful to see those locomotives and coaches blown up and smashed in the movie, since they reproduced everything down to the rivet.

@devilsoffspring5519

Жыл бұрын

No kidding eh! But, money is money and the movie is supposed to make more money. It's sad as all hell when good work is destroyed, though. Especially deliberately.

@frankmarkovcijr5459

Жыл бұрын

At least they only destroyed a model train I hate when they show for that stupid new James Bond movie or whatever it is where they run that steam engine off the cliff in England. How could they purposely destroy a beautiful running locomotive like that for a stupid movie is incomprehensible.

AWESOME, for the love of STEAM...!

Exceptional!!

This hobby require real education and technical skills. Every day this is more valuable because seems that less people is able to make it and enjoy it.

Thank you for sharing this. Excellent!

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Love your videos it gives us the ability to see great steam shows in places that we will never have the opportunity to go to also love your version of Ghost Riders in the Sky ❤

@ukmodelengineering

7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

16 minutes in, recent sold in Yorkshire

Excellent film , I wonder where all those superb locos are now and if the fantastic tracks are still there , Thanks for posting

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@TiagoFernandes-ro6ck

Жыл бұрын

Yes they are!

@vstol

Жыл бұрын

@@TiagoFernandes-ro6ck There was track for the York Society of Locomotive Engineers in York and we also used a 3/12" and 5" track at Eggborough Power Station. It has all been demolished.

Great

Thanks for uploading this! 👍 Makes me glad to own a few titles 📕 by Martin Evans. My neighbor has a rideable live steam layout in his own yard, and hopefully the knowledge in those books will help me catch up with him!

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

No problem!

Verdaderos genios los hombres q construyen esos trenes...wow😮

Didn't expect him to speak Swedish 😅😂🙂

Wow. Interesting.

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

Very!

@robnewman6101

10 ай бұрын

Thanks.

As a boy i made things out of wood, and then plastic, but this is model engineering. It is wonderful. I have a question: If you aim for true scale, are there certain things that will not work if made to scale? I suppose boiler pressure has to be "real"., but you aim for scale speed. I suppose that aircraft modellers have even worse problems? Excuse my ignorance, but once one gets thinking...

@billh308

9 ай бұрын

Physics do not scale down, like the steam whistle, and some things become too fiddly like super heaters.

@BasementEngineer

9 ай бұрын

peter: You are correct, for example the fire tubes in the boiler are not to scale but larger. The boiler shell is thicker than the stress calculations require. The operating boiler pressure on a model may vary between say 80 psi to 110 psi, with 100 psi quite common. This pressure is sufficient to cause wheel slip with the locomotive. The full size locomotives had boiler pressures varying from 250 psi to 350 psi. As to scale speed. I've run my locomotive at a scale speed of 160 mph, and that was scary fast. The reason being is that model tracks are not as smooth or level as full size tracks.

Parabéns pela criatividade 👏👏👏! Leonardi de são Gabriel do oeste Mato grosso Brasil

friend, how do I get the projects for a live steam locomotive, especially the columbia locomotive by Martins Evans that appeared in the video ????

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

@Otávio Willians, checkout 'Blackgates Engineering' - www.blackgates.co.uk/3_5__gauge_locos.html

einfach genial handwerkskunst in vollendung brovo

one word,art.

48:18 les faltó una locomotora big-boy 4014

A delightful video! One small nitpick: the WM locomotive is a "Potomac", not a "Pocono" (which would be a Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western 4-8-4).

sweet jesus, that thing is hauling 20 people.

@wildcoyote34

Жыл бұрын

amazing how much power a steam engine has ,,,now imagine that engine weighs a million 2 hundred 50 thousand pounds ,,,you get 4-8-8-4 big boy with 7000+ horsepower

I have a model steam traction engine. Size of a large power wheels.. never fired it up. Got it from my grandfather. I’m afraid to fire it.. boilers scare the hell out me.. I’m a bike guy. But I love steam But dam steam you scary!!! 😮

@BasementEngineer

9 ай бұрын

Test the boiler with water pressure to 1 1/2 times the operating pressure. With no boiler leaks or deformations you should be OK.

What an excellent film with magnificent detailed scale models! I understand they are live steam and controlled via radio control. But just how is the fire controlled? Is there a mini robot that manually shovels coal into the fireplace?

@TBone-bz9mp

Жыл бұрын

No, the coal is put in manually. Remember it’s not going to burn to scale.

All you need now is "Brief Encounter"!

Yer but these People are Craftsmen.

betul betul sebuah maha karya

Sir I bought a engine its price

Good Engineer 👍

is it possible to get somware blue prins of those amazing models?

@haroldpearson6025

Жыл бұрын

A. J. Reeves of Birmingham uk or Polly Models of uk.

@Massthetrainfanatic

Жыл бұрын

Technically Polly models sells kits

Я в восторге!!!!!!

A watchmaker's hobby

Man those people look silly riding that, but of course I would do it if I could

this would be an awesome project, where would someone find a set of blueprints like these.

@ukmodelengineering

Жыл бұрын

@Tom Leaf, there are many model engineering suppliers who can provide drawings for model locomotives, have a look at www.ajreeves.com/ or www.blackgates.co.uk/

What about the hydro test??? You just fire it up and hope hope against hope it don't explode???

@gardnereng

Жыл бұрын

All model engineering societies in UK follow a rigorous regime of hydraulic certification testing, and scheduled repeated hydraulic and steam tests similar to full size.

Which model is this locomotive

우리나라 에도 세계적인 모형기차 장인이 있죠 ᆢ인천에 계신다던데 성함은 있었지만

A level of enthusiasm not conceivable in todays social hurricane !!

Has anyone ever built a steam-powered airplane?

@441rider

Жыл бұрын

Balloons are very large stirling engines of a sort.

@devilsoffspring5519

Жыл бұрын

Yes, there have been steam engine powered aircraft. Not many, but they have been flown: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKtqsKimk9G9XZs.html

😍😍😍😍👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤❤

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I tried to build my own miniature locomotive but them my mental health kicked in and ended it

@union310

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't have to

@TheGarageRailway

Жыл бұрын

Build a model railway with ready to run stuff, it will be much easier and i promise it will have a positive impact on your health

@pietersnackaert

Жыл бұрын

I'm making one for a school project, only it's an 0-6-0 shunter, wish me luck

@union310

Жыл бұрын

Adam, I spent months with severe depression and anxiety. Getting out and visiting my local model engineering society helped me greatly. Start with small steps and the journey will be fruitful.

@xixengineering

Жыл бұрын

I build steam engines to help with mine.

there arent any steam engines made today.

What a pity such a low res camera was used. This work is magnificent. It is painful to see it misrepresented by a lousey camera. I just read the note that it was filmed in the 80's and that explains it. Still...it hurts.

If this was my debut, I would have most certainly put a shirt on knowing that not only was I appearing on film but also had a wildly overabundance of chest/back hair. gross

@Massthetrainfanatic

Жыл бұрын

Are you saying your the guy in the video?

What do you want to bet that guys wife hated his hobby

@BasementEngineer

9 ай бұрын

No! Most commentary from wives was "At least I know where my husband is".

Unfortunately Model Engineering is becoming a dying art. With the coming of computers and mobile phones, young people seem to be more attracted to these rather than displaying any wish to become a craftsman. Also, it is now almost impossible to get castings made, foundrys are not interested unless you want a thousand. The more recent development of Computer Numerical Control allows precision engineering without any direct input other than writing a suitable program. Admittedly this in itself is an art but is in a different league to personal operation of machines.