I have always liked the BAGRS project locomotive and found the various incarnations that people have built inspiring. I have a friend who lives locally that is a also member of a local model engineering society. He has a fantastic workshop and very kindly offered to teach me how to build a simple live steam locomotive from scratch. The BAGRS locomotive suited, but we are hoping to do some mods along the way, including a reverse valve, gas firing, ect. I started of with the wooden frame:
The wheels ‘in place’ are temporary, these are the wheels that I am turning which will be used:
This is the design of oscillating engine that I will use as a reference for the scratch built one
Alec
Got the wheels finished yesterday… This is the arbor I made to hold the blanks while the flanges were turned:
