PART 17 A Five-Inch Gauge 0-4-0 Padarn Railway Tender Locomotive

Continued from p.707 M.E.4730 November 17 The cheating! The right side of the model is as close to scale as can be expected for a working live steam model that needs to pull a ridiculous scale load (me!) at break-neck (scale) speeds. Having just the two crosshead pumps, like the original, was never an option for our track. The old guys like to chat in the station regardless of the queue and who can blame them, I do the same. For my model I substituted the left-hand pump for a live steam injector with a period specific steam valve at the top of the boiler to match. If the locomotive had run into the era when injectors where used, I suspect the configuration might have looked very similar (photo 172).…

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