Hay Steve.

Greate looking locomotives. I happen to be 15 but I am one who has respect for the Railraods and for my elders. By the way are there any narrow gauge railraods in the mighty state of mississippi. Also have you ever tride a virtual train simulator such as Trainz Railroad Sim or Train Sim. You can build your own railroads in Trainz.

Like I said, I am only 15, and I still have a lot to learn about all the workings on the steam engine. I did not know what you ment on draft, I thought you ment the heat draft which way the heat went; yes I am using a fan for my loco, the 2 are located in the tender. And yes it is mechanical, also I do not know what a wooten  design is, you'll have to show me; speaking of showing I have no pictures to present because I do not own one of those cameras that can put pictures on the web.

I don't have fire bricks in if that is what you are asking. The egines are gonna have working outside pistons on each side. The fire box is under the boiler and it has coal to to burn. The fire box is wider than the wheels right now because the fire wont burn well in a narrow size like the one you see on the models. I am not tring to compete for age around steam or any thing, I am only saying that you don't here many youth out in the model railroad hobbie or the railroad, you also dont here many kids wonting to improve model railroads. What do you mean when you say mechanical or steam; I plan on running the models as if they were the real deal but smaller, I have no plans for using cranks and and gears and shafts unless it is a shay.

The plubming fictures are brass, the loco was fired under charcoal soaked in some lighter fluied and I put a serenge full of water in the boiler and then screwed the brass cab on. I sweat welded the backhead on and the smoke box, also it had copper tubes in for the smoke flues. It got hot enough to boil the water into steam but sadly I have not got the injector built and I don't have the micro chips for the rest of the functions, as well I have not built the pistons or the throttle and reverser. Then BOOM!
By the way most of the drawings are secret as well as how and what iI am using, I told you just abou 1% of what is being built. This is pretty advance for a 15 year old.

B-Mann
Here are the specks for the 10-Wheeler!
Spec number:    C-4169
                 Type:    10-26D332
            Cylinders:    16x22
      Boiler diameter:    54", extended wagon top boiler
   Firebox dimensions:    95 15/16" long x 23 3/8" wide
                Flues:    188 flue tubes, 2" diameter, 12' 1 3/4" long
      Heating surface:    116 square feet
           Grate area:    15.5 square feet
Ratio to heat surface:    1/84
            Wheelbase:    driving 10'
                          Total engine 19' 6"
                          Engine and tender 46'
    Weight on drivers:    80,050 lbs
    Wt on front truck:    18,750 lbs
        Engine weight:    98,800 lbs
        Tender weight:    60,000 lbs loaded
        Coal capacity:    4 tons
       Water capacity:    3,000 gallons
      Tractive effort:    19,100 lbs
    Ratio of Adhesion:    4.2
This is all from the Johnson City Depot at www.johnsoncitydepot.com

I think that the hoppers should carry ethier the ET&WNC road name or the Craneberry Mines road name also I think the rolling stock should carry the Linville RR and ET&WNC and the Doe River Gordge road names.

LOL. I melted the back head on by sweating it together, also the engine was leaking and whell the thing blew the back head off becaues I have not got the parts right now to put the injector in. I have got the drawings.

Shoot, I hope not. I like them just fine without the sound, besides it would  make the engine even more expensive for me to purches. I hope the 10-wheeler that will eventually come out wont even have it, unless you can get both locos with opptional sound to help the people that havent got the money to purches it.

Does anyone have any news on Tweetsie Railroad? I have heard that they are playin the cards right and wont have to relocate.It'll be sad to see the the railroad relocate or dissapear.

I have drawn scale models of coal fired steam powerd models for On30. As you gussed it is of the Ten-Wheeler. These trains are planned to operate under a half a pound of psi, also I have attempted to build one of the models and just about succeded with it; guss what? The backhead blew of the boiler under a pound of psi and almost hit my dad's Triumph Spitfire. I really need help building it but I do not have the matirials to build it with. I used pluming fictures and copper sheets to form the back head and the front smoke box.

1. What is your On30 display? Mining, or logging operations, Christmas village, Mfg. ops., or a circle around Christmas tree?

Passenger and farm supplyer to the feild workers.


2 What do you have for Buildings on your layout? Scratch built, Plasticville.

Not any yet but planning own getting a part time job during the summer,to buy some.

3. What era does your layout represent? Civil war, turn of century, modern,
or let us know the exact date.

My layout is  the Black River & Southern RR is in present day and is based on a 15 year old kid who has built a steam powerd model's that run on coal and water in On30 and has got a assembley line going and has built a small railroad going from county to county in north carolina hauling feild supplies to the farmers and taking cotton and tobbaco to the gins and barns I also run a 5 car passenger trains through to the towns near Dunn and Fayettvill . by the way the kid is me and i do have the scale drawings to make a real On30 steam train. 1 of my attempts blew the bake head of the boiler aftre 1/2 pound of psi.

4. What size and type is your layout? Shelf type , table top, walk around, 4x8, ping pong table, Etc...

It is two 4x8s and a connecting 2x12.

Wont to start sharing how do to do senery and stuff. I would like to know how to build a great layout

This might not be a futher small train, but its an addition to the 0-4-0, 0-4-2, and soon to be 2-4-2 FWRR. This is another Tweetsie engine, The giant 0-8-0 switcher loco with a slope tender. I think it'll look like a great engine. I also think that if bachmann could build some locos that are not based on a real steam engine but rather out thought, custom ideas and mess. a 4-4-2 would also be great also 2-4-4 oh wait that is the forny but sup it up, Give it a ballon stack, tender sepperated from the cab a wood load and much more. I have drawn all these models on my computer but I just dont know how to put them on the computer.

Have you all seen the scenic express grass prairie trufs? They look like the real deal, and it is in mats instead of having to glue and stick packs of grass to something. It looks great. Go to www.scenicexpress.com the mess on there is great.

Looks like the ET&WNC sold the thing to the EBT. The thing was made out of a johnson city street car, Jitney. It ran off rail alot and so it was sold to the EBT