Live Steam Locos

Welcome to Russell’s home page.

 

And many thanks to Gerhard Bolz, Hannes Sommer and Adolph Trisko

for their encouragement and good advice.

 

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A photographic record of the construction of a Live Steam BR53

(1’C)’D h4 [2-6-8-0] “Kriegslok II” locomotive. In 1944 the prototype BR53

was built to the rolling chassis stage before the project was canned by the

then German hierarchy. My loco is based on info obtained from Märklin

and their excellent H0 model #3302,which was itself based on data provided

by Mr Karl-Heinz Golze, an Engineer with Borsig Hennigsdorf at the time.

 

(The Kriegslok will be to a scale of 1:8 to run on 7¼" Gauge)

Photos:-

My Home: Photos taken after the refurbishment.

 

The Shop; Photos of my workshop.

 

Werkstoff:  A guide and cross reference to steels of different codes (Werkstoff, DIN, BS, AISI).                                                                                                           

 

BR53: Construction Progress Photos.

 

Perrin Bros: Universal Milling Machine, my new purchase.

 

Completed Projects:

 

Automatic Cylinder Cock:

 

Knorr Bremse: Braking Equipment.

 

Wellenrohrkessel:

 

French TGV Train Smash Photos:

 

Arch Bar Trucks:

 

Coppabella Coal Derailment:

 

Another Loco from Meiningen:

 

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