Posted on 05/30/2008 5:23:00 PM PDT by uglybiker
I wonder whose basement they’re going to run it in. (Too big to run under my Christmas tree — but now that I’m thinking about it . . . .)
Wow,What a work of art.I almost would bet coal would be cheaper now than oil.Bring on new steam!
Remarkable!
A typical US steam locomotive would go through upwards of 1.5 tons of coal per hour. (And the fireman worked a 12 hour shift, having to know where along the route to stoke up for needed steam, and when to back off on the steam.)
One of the tidbits they threw out was that a modern engine can, really crunching the cost accounting, haul a ton of freight 200 miles on a gallon of diesel.
One other cost of steam is the need to staff firemen overnight to keep boilers primed to go first thing the next day.
Great stuff, thanks for the info!
Here’s what we have in my neck of the woods:
http://www.hebervalleyrr.org/gallery/index.php
That depends on the size of the Christmas tree.
European trains look wimpy to me... I like good American made Steam locomotives:
These locomotives are not wimpy.
;^)>
That’s really cool
Notice the row houses in the background. I was wondering where they would be able to run it.
Then, on the other hand, you wouldn't need such a large basement if you went with trains like those a friend of mine has on his layout.
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Okay, please tell Bob that I want to be him when I grow up!
The best model trains. Twelve inch scale.
I think I saw Nr. 1401 under refurbishment at the Tennessee Valley Railway Museum in Chattanooga, many years ago.
I took a shot of the Governer Stanford almost identical to that one when I was at the Cal State RR Museum in 1999 or 2000.
I’ve seen the Big Boy at the Dallas museum but it wasn’t in as good a condition as the one you show in Pomona.
Jeez. What is that, 3 inch (1/4) scale? The track gauge would be about 14 inches, and from the photos, that looks about right.
You'll have to have a spare billion or so laying around to be able to afford the layout...
Sixteen inch gauge. The following pictures were taken when Bob spent a Saturday morning, several years ago, entertaining me for my 55th birthday.
Bob got into playing with trains by accident. He was at a dinner in 1993 and the guy sitting next to him offered him the entire train, tracks, buildings, etc., from Los Angeles' Griffith Park train ride for $10,000.
He bought it.
He thought he had only bought the trainbut it eventually took 20 flatbed 18 wheelers to carry everything, including water tower, control tower, about a mile-and-a-half of track and two really dilapidated trains, to his newly purchased estate site. Good thing he owns a major trucking company.
He spent the next ten years restoring the train.
Then he bought more. And more.
He sold one of his antique cars to build his round house (which is round in name only)... for about $3 million.
The trains run around about a three-and-a-half mile layout on his 88 acre estate. He has spent about $80 million on the as yet incomplete mansion and grounds.
When I was last there, he was working on restoring a scale steam engine.
He has a full time staff working on his trains. Must be nice to be able to afford it.
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