History of Live Steam and Model Engineering

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  • @robtroman7917
    @robtroman7917 11 месяцев назад +11

    Model Engineers are a very special breed, I have nothing but total admiration for every single one of them, passed and present.

    • @FckYTube-r3v
      @FckYTube-r3v 2 месяца назад

      Same here, wish i had that kind of skill.

  • @presenttense7189
    @presenttense7189 Год назад +7

    My grandfather made several live stream locomotives from blueprints in his tiny workshop at the back of his garage. I was lucky enough to inherit one when he passed on but what i wish more than anything now that im in my 40s is that id spent more time with him helping and learning from him. He was a very talented man.

  • @johnwest7993
    @johnwest7993 2 года назад +16

    I met a machinist in Chicago who built 2 of these trains. They were beautiful. He spent years on them, and his wife made all of the interior fabric decor for the cars. They were amazing. I'm sure they are now in a museum.

  • @ajaypande6391
    @ajaypande6391 2 года назад +25

    What an awesome film! The camerawork is brilliant, and the cameraman must be a train lover for the lovingly created shots. The best live steam film I've seen! Thank you!

  • @piperg6179
    @piperg6179 2 года назад +30

    I’ve got it! All i have to do is become a mechanical genius, deveop infinite skill and patience, buy a small machine shop and devote 50 years to this, maybe 100. I do have a wonderfully accommodating wife, so at least that item is settled.

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Год назад +4

      I built a 3/4" to the foot model of a Canadian Pacific Hudson. Began in 1985 and steamed it for the first time in 1998.

    • @haroldpearson6025
      @haroldpearson6025 Год назад +3

      I'm now 82 and built my first 3.5g loco, an LBSC Tich when I was 12/15.
      Join a model engineering club and get help from the members. I'm on my 7th loco now!

  • @gvet47
    @gvet47 2 года назад +39

    Many of the craftsman that built great model steam engines are no longer with us. I think about the older lathes and mills they had to work with to produce the very detailed and accurate parts. I have never met any of the builders in my 75 years. I have been fortunate to build several small stationary steam engines from kits sold today.

    • @telwood15
      @telwood15 2 года назад +1

      The day's of Bridgeport and Colchester etc are fading sway.

    • @15nyonker
      @15nyonker Год назад +5

      @@telwood15 You can make more working at McDonalds than you can as a apprentice machinist in a lot of cases. I’m in my 20s and I find it so sad to see a lot of skilled jobs disappearing.

    • @lilroc2168
      @lilroc2168 Год назад

      great comment ,i got my machinists paper back in hs on manual machines likes these......i was no were near as good as these gents but i knew the trade ....kids these days dont have skills like this or the aptitude for the math

  • @glennfryer1539
    @glennfryer1539 Год назад +4

    I had the honour of meeting Martin Evans when I worked MAP in the late 70's, he was a real gentleman !!

  • @ianbeech4874
    @ianbeech4874 2 года назад +11

    Thank you for posting this, I will recommend it to other members of the Manx Steam and Model Engineering Club. Ian Beech.

  • @Pitmirk_
    @Pitmirk_ 2 года назад +10

    I love the correct English- it sounds great and feels crisp.
    Even has correct use of quite.. back in the day when educated speech was reassuringly direct.

    • @areguapiri
      @areguapiri 2 года назад +5

      Most Americans can no longer speak basic grammatical English. It is pathetic in America!

    • @jamescerone
      @jamescerone 8 месяцев назад

      @@areguapiri”proper” grammar is arbitrarily chosen by an elite few. Language is language; it’s developed by the masses and evolves as time goes on. We would be better off listening to what people are saying, not focusing on how they say it.

  • @ceedeekaytee1961
    @ceedeekaytee1961 2 года назад +18

    I think it is an understatement to call such people "Hobbyists"
    A hobbyist would make one from a kit.
    These machines are works of art in their own right.

    • @andthenhedead6076
      @andthenhedead6076 5 месяцев назад

      I think “rich madman” fits better personally

    • @jalbhagwagar3353
      @jalbhagwagar3353 3 месяца назад

      Absolutely. These are passionate geniuses that most would never understand. And, dare I say, they do have a streak of madness in them. Imagine the unlimited patience for the attention to detail that they have to pay. And, the many, many parts that need magnifying glasses, on and on. Salute and deep respects 🙏🏻

  • @Gearz-365
    @Gearz-365 Год назад +2

    I'm 19 yet I'm fascinated by the world and craft of model engineering. It covers all sorts of mechanical things that I like, from engines to locomotives to machine tools and vehicles, and even clockmaking! It's a craft I'd love to pursue :)

    • @BAll-n7w
      @BAll-n7w Год назад +1

      work hard play hard... not only does it take a considerable amount of time and skill in all different aspects, it also costs alot of money, machinary and tools.

    • @Gearz-365
      @Gearz-365 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@BAll-n7w Yeah I feel like those would be my biggest obstacles, but I would still like to put in the effort

    • @Gearz-365
      @Gearz-365 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@BAll-n7w Yeah that is gonna be one obstacle. But I still hope to someday be a part of the craft and keep history alive.. in miniature ⚙️

  • @milivojeta
    @milivojeta 2 года назад +6

    I watched your video with delight. An exceptional work of engineering. My sincere admiration.

  • @envitech02
    @envitech02 2 года назад +8

    Excellent shots of the steam driving mechanism!!

  • @revolvolution7372
    @revolvolution7372 2 года назад +4

    This is filmed in sweden and at 9:10 He is saying "What remains is to try out the Whistle" and then "Not so bad huh"

  • @Steviegtr52
    @Steviegtr52 Год назад +1

    Thank you for a fantastic film. Watched from start to end. Amazing craftsmen.

  • @haroldpearson6025
    @haroldpearson6025 2 года назад +8

    Its a beautiful and under appreciated hobby.

  • @lapassiondestrainsminiatur7881
    @lapassiondestrainsminiatur7881 2 года назад +1

    احب كثيرا ما تقوم به لاني شغوف بالقطارات المصغرة واعشق الابداع والفن والدقة في العمل الذي تفعله . اتمنى لك التوفيق مع كل الحب والتقدير.

  • @Tavin12353
    @Tavin12353 6 месяцев назад +1

    friend, how can I follow the drawings of the western maryland model engineer locomotive??

  • @matze6054
    @matze6054 2 года назад +2

    So greatfull and amazing! I am speakless! Good job!

  • @officialbritishtaxpayer5609
    @officialbritishtaxpayer5609 2 года назад +6

    Thanks for sharing this - if I'd seen it at the time, I'd have been bitten by the engineering bug a lot sooner than I was!

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 2 года назад +5

    You're a really useful railway.

  • @otaviowillians8570
    @otaviowillians8570 2 года назад +3

    friend, how do I get the projects for a live steam locomotive, especially the columbia locomotive by Martins Evans that appeared in the video ????

    • @ukmodelengineering
      @ukmodelengineering  2 года назад +1

      @Otávio Willians, checkout 'Blackgates Engineering' - www.blackgates.co.uk/3_5__gauge_locos.html

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 2 года назад +6

    You're a really useful engine.

  • @GRAHAM1514
    @GRAHAM1514 2 года назад +12

    Excellent film , I wonder where all those superb locos are now and if the fantastic tracks are still there , Thanks for posting

    • @ukmodelengineering
      @ukmodelengineering  2 года назад

      Glad you enjoyed it

    • @TiagoFernandes-ro6ck
      @TiagoFernandes-ro6ck 2 года назад +1

      Yes they are!

    • @vstol
      @vstol 2 года назад +1

      @@TiagoFernandes-ro6ck There was track for the York Society of Locomotive Engineers in York and we also used a 3/12" and 5" track at Eggborough Power Station. It has all been demolished.

  • @raymondleggs5508
    @raymondleggs5508 2 года назад +5

    A similar sized miniature Diesel passenger train was built for the 2002 Jean Claude Van Damme action film Derailed. It was a bit painful to see those locomotives and coaches blown up and smashed in the movie, since they reproduced everything down to the rivet.

    • @devilsoffspring5519
      @devilsoffspring5519 2 года назад

      No kidding eh! But, money is money and the movie is supposed to make more money.
      It's sad as all hell when good work is destroyed, though. Especially deliberately.

    • @frankmarkovcijr5459
      @frankmarkovcijr5459 2 года назад

      At least they only destroyed a model train I hate when they show for that stupid new James Bond movie or whatever it is where they run that steam engine off the cliff in England. How could they purposely destroy a beautiful running locomotive like that for a stupid movie is incomprehensible.

  • @joseleopoldoayala7690
    @joseleopoldoayala7690 Год назад +1

    48:18 les faltó una locomotora big-boy 4014

  • @gordonbeck4054
    @gordonbeck4054 Год назад +1

    Some model makers are totally brilliant in their form of constructive art !!

    • @gordonbeck4054
      @gordonbeck4054 Год назад

      Some of their models can't even reach a current saleable price !! They are literally price less gems of complex completion that are kept as family looms !!

    • @haroldpearson6025
      @haroldpearson6025 Год назад

      The live steam passenger hauling aspect of the hobby is totally under represented, it's all about table top electric. Whole TV series helping Hornby promote its business.

  • @raymondleggs5508
    @raymondleggs5508 2 года назад +2

    Beautiful locomotives

  • @oiergarcia7533
    @oiergarcia7533 2 года назад +9

    Imagine making one of this so realisticly that It ends up suffering a boiler explosion.

    • @haroldpearson6025
      @haroldpearson6025 2 года назад +4

      Boilers are made to a very high standard with mandatory testing required.

  • @mikeking2539
    @mikeking2539 2 года назад +7

    An American locomotive, pulling two British coaches,( A GWR coach, a LMS coach,) and a European coach! But I suppose it is part of the fun of operating a live steam railway!

    • @union310
      @union310 2 года назад +1

      Showing you what can be built....

  • @marianhoops8543
    @marianhoops8543 Год назад

    Love your videos it gives us the ability to see great steam shows in places that we will never have the opportunity to go to also love your version of Ghost Riders in the Sky ❤

  • @frankmarkovcijr5459
    @frankmarkovcijr5459 2 года назад +3

    120 years ago around your Christmas tree before people had Electric in their homes you would have a live stream engine 2 inch gauge something like that going around the tree which is lit with real candles. It's amazing how nobody Burns their house down in those days with candles burning in the tree with a live stream engine circling it that was probably alcohol fueled. I guess people had more sense to not do stupid things. I've seen some of those turn of the century engines and they are like Jewels with the amount of handicraft work involved. Of course they were rather expensive but then quality pieces of equipment usually are but then with maintenance they would last forever. You have 150-year-old live steam engine from the turn of the 19th century that have outlived several of their owners.

    • @16-BITFPV
      @16-BITFPV 2 года назад +1

      There were lots of fires in the days of candles and early electricity, I had a pre-war O scale train set that was in a old house fire.

  • @peterwhyte317
    @peterwhyte317 2 года назад +5

    As a boy i made things out of wood, and then plastic, but this is model engineering. It is wonderful. I have a question: If you aim for true scale, are there certain things that will not work if made to scale? I suppose boiler pressure has to be "real"., but you aim for scale speed. I suppose that aircraft modellers have even worse problems? Excuse my ignorance, but once one gets thinking...

    • @billh308
      @billh308 Год назад

      Physics do not scale down, like the steam whistle, and some things become too fiddly like super heaters.

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Год назад

      peter: You are correct, for example the fire tubes in the boiler are not to scale but larger. The boiler shell is thicker than the stress calculations require.
      The operating boiler pressure on a model may vary between say 80 psi to 110 psi, with 100 psi quite common. This pressure is sufficient to cause wheel slip with the locomotive.
      The full size locomotives had boiler pressures varying from 250 psi to 350 psi.
      As to scale speed. I've run my locomotive at a scale speed of 160 mph, and that was scary fast. The reason being is that model tracks are not as smooth or level as full size tracks.

  • @barryrudge1576
    @barryrudge1576 2 года назад

    Steam locomotive models to me are the most beautiful form of model engineering and when you see the sort of price these models bring when sold shows many others feel exactly the same.

  • @P61guy61
    @P61guy61 2 года назад

    Thank you for sharing this. Excellent!

  • @RustyInventions-wz6ir
    @RustyInventions-wz6ir Месяц назад

    Very nice video. Great engines. I’m jealous.

  • @princessofthecape2078
    @princessofthecape2078 5 месяцев назад

    What class of locomotive is the 2-4-0 initially shown?

  • @rchristie5401
    @rchristie5401 2 года назад +2

    Exceptional!!

  • @Rimrock300
    @Rimrock300 2 года назад +3

    Looking at that video picture I did think it was a documentary with Sir Richard Attenborough himself, this time about model trains. But...no) Anyway, none the less a great video!

  • @farrukhariffarrukh7899
    @farrukhariffarrukh7899 2 года назад +2

    Sir I bought a engine its price

  • @barriewright2857
    @barriewright2857 2 года назад +2

    Brilliant.

  • @maggnar
    @maggnar 2 года назад

    This hobby require real education and technical skills. Every day this is more valuable because seems that less people is able to make it and enjoy it.

  • @paulhammersley4562
    @paulhammersley4562 2 года назад

    i used to ride on a similar L/S train track in the late 1960's (long gone now) in Middlesbrough at Albert Park, nice memories,

  • @union310
    @union310 2 года назад +3

    16 minutes in, recent sold in Yorkshire

  • @Mason58654
    @Mason58654 Год назад

    Thanks for uploading this! 👍 Makes me glad to own a few titles 📕 by Martin Evans. My neighbor has a rideable live steam layout in his own yard, and hopefully the knowledge in those books will help me catch up with him!

  • @branislavrakic9249
    @branislavrakic9249 2 года назад

    is it possible to get somware blue prins of those amazing models?

    • @haroldpearson6025
      @haroldpearson6025 2 года назад

      A. J. Reeves of Birmingham uk or Polly Models of uk.

    • @Massi8046
      @Massi8046 Год назад

      Technically Polly models sells kits

  • @YODAMAN5
    @YODAMAN5 2 года назад +3

    AWESOME, for the love of STEAM...!

  • @ironpepsi1
    @ironpepsi1 2 года назад

    this would be an awesome project, where would someone find a set of blueprints like these.

    • @ukmodelengineering
      @ukmodelengineering  2 года назад

      @Tom Leaf, there are many model engineering suppliers who can provide drawings for model locomotives, have a look at www.ajreeves.com/ or www.blackgates.co.uk/

  • @wizlish
    @wizlish 2 года назад +2

    A delightful video! One small nitpick: the WM locomotive is a "Potomac", not a "Pocono" (which would be a Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western 4-8-4).

  • @envitech02
    @envitech02 2 года назад +10

    What an excellent film with magnificent detailed scale models! I understand they are live steam and controlled via radio control. But just how is the fire controlled? Is there a mini robot that manually shovels coal into the fireplace?

    • @TBone-bz9mp
      @TBone-bz9mp 2 года назад +4

      No, the coal is put in manually. Remember it’s not going to burn to scale.

  • @carlospinto3879
    @carlospinto3879 Год назад

    Verdaderos genios los hombres q construyen esos trenes...wow😮

  • @Reshumbox
    @Reshumbox 2 года назад +3

    Didn't expect him to speak Swedish 😅😂🙂

  • @saivignessramasamy7248
    @saivignessramasamy7248 Год назад

    Which model is this locomotive

  • @Das_Red
    @Das_Red 2 года назад

    one word,art.

  • @timtom41007
    @timtom41007 Год назад

    betul betul sebuah maha karya

  • @leewyton7975
    @leewyton7975 2 месяца назад

    What year was this ????

  • @simongardiner949
    @simongardiner949 2 года назад

    All you need now is "Brief Encounter"!

  • @gjaltmeijer3192
    @gjaltmeijer3192 2 года назад +5

    Great

  • @leonardimedke3368
    @leonardimedke3368 2 года назад

    Parabéns pela criatividade 👏👏👏! Leonardi de são Gabriel do oeste Mato grosso Brasil

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 2 года назад +4

    Wow. Interesting.

  • @iggybeauchance7406
    @iggybeauchance7406 2 года назад +2

    What about the hydro test??? You just fire it up and hope hope against hope it don't explode???

    • @gardnereng
      @gardnereng 2 года назад +1

      All model engineering societies in UK follow a rigorous regime of hydraulic certification testing, and scheduled repeated hydraulic and steam tests similar to full size.

  • @dirttdude
    @dirttdude 2 года назад +2

    sweet jesus, that thing is hauling 20 people.

    • @wildcoyote34
      @wildcoyote34 2 года назад

      amazing how much power a steam engine has ,,,now imagine that engine weighs a million 2 hundred 50 thousand pounds ,,,you get 4-8-8-4 big boy with 7000+ horsepower

  • @fandangofandango2022
    @fandangofandango2022 2 года назад +2

    Yer but these People are Craftsmen.

  • @hondaxl250k0
    @hondaxl250k0 2 года назад +1

    I have a model steam traction engine. Size of a large power wheels.. never fired it up. Got it from my grandfather. I’m afraid to fire it.. boilers scare the hell out me.. I’m a bike guy. But I love steam But dam steam you scary!!! 😮

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Год назад

      Test the boiler with water pressure to 1 1/2 times the operating pressure. With no boiler leaks or deformations you should be OK.

  • @suessadolf1476
    @suessadolf1476 2 года назад +1

    einfach genial handwerkskunst in vollendung brovo

  • @중석-x3d
    @중석-x3d 2 года назад

    우리나라 에도 세계적인 모형기차 장인이 있죠 ᆢ인천에 계신다던데 성함은 있었지만

  • @zach8204
    @zach8204 2 года назад

    A watchmaker's hobby

  • @cactiguide
    @cactiguide 2 года назад

    Man those people look silly riding that, but of course I would do it if I could

  • @pierrelana280
    @pierrelana280 4 месяца назад

    Pas de sous titres en Français. Aucun interet.

  • @johnwest7993
    @johnwest7993 2 года назад +2

    Has anyone ever built a steam-powered airplane?

    • @441rider
      @441rider 2 года назад

      Balloons are very large stirling engines of a sort.

    • @devilsoffspring5519
      @devilsoffspring5519 2 года назад +1

      Yes, there have been steam engine powered aircraft. Not many, but they have been flown:
      ruclips.net/video/nw6NFmcnW-8/видео.html

  • @dallas184
    @dallas184 2 года назад +18

    I tried to build my own miniature locomotive but them my mental health kicked in and ended it

    • @union310
      @union310 2 года назад +3

      It doesn't have to

    • @TheGarageRailway
      @TheGarageRailway 2 года назад +4

      Build a model railway with ready to run stuff, it will be much easier and i promise it will have a positive impact on your health

    • @pietersnackaert
      @pietersnackaert 2 года назад +4

      I'm making one for a school project, only it's an 0-6-0 shunter, wish me luck

    • @union310
      @union310 2 года назад +4

      Adam, I spent months with severe depression and anxiety. Getting out and visiting my local model engineering society helped me greatly.
      Start with small steps and the journey will be fruitful.

    • @xixengineering
      @xixengineering 2 года назад +1

      I build steam engines to help with mine.

  • @lmyu9163
    @lmyu9163 Год назад

    Good Engineer 👍

  • @stumpusMaximus
    @stumpusMaximus 2 месяца назад

    The thing is, we *used* to do this, until people’s brains got rotted with the internet, social media, mobiles and cable TV. Hobby’s are a thing of the past never to return in this narcissistic world

  • @НиколайПанов-э8ц
    @НиколайПанов-э8ц 2 года назад

    Я в восторге!!!!!!

  • @machobunny1
    @machobunny1 2 года назад +2

    What a pity such a low res camera was used. This work is magnificent. It is painful to see it misrepresented by a lousey camera. I just read the note that it was filmed in the 80's and that explains it. Still...it hurts.

  • @jasonrusso9808
    @jasonrusso9808 2 года назад

    If this was my debut, I would have most certainly put a shirt on knowing that not only was I appearing on film but also had a wildly overabundance of chest/back hair. gross

    • @Massi8046
      @Massi8046 Год назад

      Are you saying your the guy in the video?

  • @ernestbarcella175
    @ernestbarcella175 2 года назад +1

    A level of enthusiasm not conceivable in todays social hurricane !!

  • @jamostrainos
    @jamostrainos 2 месяца назад +1

    christ i wish he'd put a shirt on 😭

  • @christopherhinton6456
    @christopherhinton6456 Год назад

    there arent any steam engines made today.

  • @rafa6694
    @rafa6694 2 года назад

    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

  • @NorthernRAY1
    @NorthernRAY1 2 года назад

    😍😍😍😍👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤❤

  • @iananderson5166
    @iananderson5166 Год назад

    Unfortunately Model Engineering is becoming a dying art. With the coming of computers and mobile phones, young people seem to be more attracted to these rather than displaying any wish to become a craftsman. Also, it is now almost impossible to get castings made, foundrys are not interested unless you want a thousand. The more recent development of Computer Numerical Control allows precision engineering without any direct input other than writing a suitable program. Admittedly this in itself is an art but is in a different league to personal operation of machines.

  • @adrikjohnson4682
    @adrikjohnson4682 Год назад

    What do you want to bet that guys wife hated his hobby

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Год назад

      No! Most commentary from wives was "At least I know where my husband is".