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A friend's new Porter

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#1

I thought I’d throw up 3 pix of a friend’s new Porter. We ran it for the first time a couple weeks ago but I got so excited that I forgot my camera…:confused: I was back over there the other day so I took some pix while there. Thought I’d share them for those that like this type of thing. She’s 3 3/4" scale - 7 1/2" gauge…quite large for a small locomotive. He wanted to run it today but had to work…:frowning:

#2

Whooooooooooooooooooooooo! Sweet.

tac

#3

Neat!!!

#4

Sweet!

Is this someone I know?

Will it be at the Bar B Que at Steve’s?

#5
Steve Featherkile said:
Sweet!

Is this someone I know?

Will it be at the Bar B Que at Steve’s?


Yup. Joe McDermott. He’ll be at the BBQ but the locomotive won’t.

#6

Hadn’t looked here before. That loco is NICE. A real practical scale & gauge for a live steamer to play with. Good railroadin’, . . . .

#7

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#8

Easy Fred. He’s been here a while.

#9

Unlike some that use aliases here that are untrackable, Narrow Gauge Lover has his site posted in his profile and, like TOC his true identity is readily available.

#10

Neat little loco. When I first saw the photo, I looked at the wheels and thought it was a 7/8" scale Ruby conversion. I’m still not convinced those aren’t Ruby wheels. :wink: What a cool project. It looks like there used to be a name on the side of the cab–former owner or jilted ex-lover? (Hopefully not both…)

It’s been a few months since you posted these originally. Any chance you were able to get pix/video of her in steam?

Later,

K

#11
Kevin Strong said:
What a cool project. It looks like there used to be a name on the side of the cab--former owner or jilted ex-lover? (Hopefully not both...)
Top line looks like "Louie" Second line looks like "J. E. Etiere"
#12

Unfortunately I don’t have any vids of it running. It had a few technical problems that needed to be ironed out to get it to work properly. I think those are solved, so maybe next summer I can get some good vids. The name on the side of the cab that was removed “Louie Lettiere”. I don’t know the history behind the name. The locomotive came to him as pre-owned but new.

#13

Thanks for another picture of that great locomotive. A very practical scale & gauge for a live steam, actually ride it, loco. I hadn’t really noticed the use of real names here. That seems already resolved before I got back over here. I’d been using “Narrow Gauge Lover” in anything internet related to trains. It tells about me pretty good. If any one is interested ( what ever for ? ) about other aspects of me, . . they can have a look at my web site. Good railroadin’ . . . . in '08.