advice please, Old locomotives

[yorkieParticipant @yorkie26540]

Hi guys

i,ve recently aquired 2 live steam locomotives and i dont know anything about these machines .1 is a 3 1/2 gauge "The Princess Royal" with tender and the other one is smaller about 2 inch gauge thanks i will be posting some photos as soon as i.ve worked out how to do it……..Yorkie

[yorkieParticipant @yorkie26540]

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Looks as if you'll be kept busy for a while with those. You'll find lots of help and advice here if you ask specific questions.

Good luck

Russell.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

You will proberbly get some questions about the pedigree of the boilers if you are going to steam them. Ian S C

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Hi Yorkie,

You will probably get more responses if you use a more meaningful title to the thread. "Advice please" covers anything. "steam loco restoration" or similar is more specific and still brief. Put more detail in the sub-text to narrow it down further.

There is a lot of knowledge here, freely shared, once you tap into it.

Phil

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

2in gauge ("gauge2&quot is extremely rare. There are probably only a handful of people running it in the world as it was too close to "gauge 1" at 1&3/4 in gauge. It is more likely to actually be the latter.

There is a high probablilty that both are based on published designs so with better side on photos we can narrow down the possibilities and eventually find teh original designer and magazine articles.

[John BaguleyParticipant @johnbaguley78655]

Hi Yorkie,

The Princess Royal will almost certainly be the old H P Jackson/Clarkson design. I'm just finishing off rebuilding one for a friend and have copies of the drawings. Is yours the four cylinder version or just two? If you need any help just ask.

John

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

my advice – take up space flight, you will be proficient in less time and its cheaper

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