The last few months have seen some steady progress on the Boulder Creek Tramway with the first 11 metre section of pipe cut, bent, and welded into shape to form one of two 11 metre long lobster back bends for the tunnel. A template was cut from sheet metal and wrapped around the pipe before having t [ … ]

On 16 April 2000 I visited the Redwood Valley Railway Corporation situated in Tilden Park Berkeley California. The same location is also home to the Golden Gate Live Steamers - but they were not running today, their club locomotive had broken down :-(.

The Redwood however, was alive and well. The r [ … ]

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Additions for Australia by Paul Pavlinovich

Live steam railroading is the term most frequently applied to the branch of the hobby involving larger models, in most cases suitable for hauling (full size) passengers, and in most cases using steam as the propulsion m [ … ]