Building Small Steam Locomotives: A Practical Guide to Making Engines for Garden Gauges

If you have an ambition to build a small live steam locomotive, but are daunted by the skills required, then this book is for you. Written in his clear and encouraging style, Peter Jones demystifies the whole process for those with little or no previous experience. Contents include: An explanation of terms; Basic metalworking processes; Step-by-step project guides; Machining; Boilermaking; Painting; and Finishing. Fully illustrated throughout with color photographs and drawings, and including appendices of suppliers and societies, this is an invaluable work for the railway modeler.

• Making Simple Model Steam Engines
• So You Want to Build a Live Steam Locomotive
• Building Simple Model Steam Engines
• Model Engine-Making: In Theory and Practice
• Steam Engine Design and Mechanism
• Model Engineering
• Backyard Foundry for Home Machinists (Fox Chapel Publishing) Metal Casting in a Sand Mold for the Home Metalworker; Information on Materials & Equipment, Pattern-Making, Molding & Core-Boxes, and More
• The Pennsylvania A3 Switcher
• A Climax Class A Live Steam Locomotive Model
• Building the Climax