The major parts of my Britannia, when the Boiler arrived. Note on back of Picture says "Sep 1979, Chassis and Wheels Before Stripping and Re-Building, Bishop Boiler"
This Picture was taken at a TSME Extended Intermission...I know the photographer worked for a newspaper, but little else. Both plants passed through my hands in the forms shown, with the one on the right going back and having a different engine fitted.
These 2 show the plant above with me operating it. This was the day that it was loaned to me, in which form with the V10 I had it for about 3 years. I rallied it a few times, but the boiler was a fiend even with the #10. It now has a Monarch look alike on it, and is much harder to fire right, the 7/8x7/8 engine is really too much for the boiler
A photo of me driving (or riding behind...) my sisters steam roller. Date is likely spring 1980. This is with the orginal boiler, the engine is now onto its third boiler, but is a bit of a granddad's axe project (this time, not much will be left at all...the tender from that picture went on the Traction, the Pump on the 2nd traction, the saddle on the new one is new...new motion bits, the block and gears are about all that will be left
Our steamcar. This is driving out at the old owners farm, which was reasoably close, and nice and open for driving around. This car is a replica, not orginal, but is quite fun to drive.
Right now, my dad has it up for sale, E-mail me if you are interested.
Mike Salsbury's Schools Class loco, taken at the TSME Extended Intermission in 1990. This was one of the last outings for this engine, as it was getting a bit tired it would just pull me with 40 lbs on the clock, and struggled with 2 of us at 80. Not too much slip, just no power at all
Our Hudson...the Beast!. This engine was nice, but for its weight. The boiler was unusual, for a Hoffman Hudson. It had 22" square of grate, and would burn anything you could cram
into the firebox at a decent rate. The year that this picture was taken (in fact, on that run) the engine earned 3rd place at OMLET (Ontario Model Loco Effiency Trials). Later that day, at about the same place, Don Carr came off the track, and wiped out the draincocks (on the side closest to the camera)...they had been
stripped off the Stwart #9 from the 2nd picture. (the engine was never finished by us, but it ran for 4 years)
Another Picture, this one with me as a definiate passanger. Taken in Islington (out that way) in Toronto in 1980, Engine is a Waterloo, built by( ). He used to work for them, and built this engine for fun. The engine used to be a regular visitor to the Hobby Show in Toronto.
This is the engine that got the tender off the roller...hard at work at Great Canadian Antique Field Days at the Ontario Agricultural Museum in 1989.
The 2 gentlemen beside me are respectively Harry Allen and John Crook, both now deceased. This photo was taken on Harry Allen's home track near Newcastle, Ontario. The track was in quite rough shape, but still runable when we went to see him. I think this picture dates to the summer of 91, not sure though it could have been 92.
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