Regner’s new “Paul” the live steam tram loco is a great new model this year in my opinion. All metal/brass with non of the fragile wood bits such as the Henry or other past models with lots of wood in their construction. Body work is beautifully done. This is a screwdriver assembly kit, mostly done with the supplied nut runner and some VERY careful bending and aligning of steam lines. The twin cylinder steam os-motor from the Lumberjack and Chaloner loco is used in this tram. With the gear reduction, its a slow and powerful engine. Even comes with all the servo mounts and rods to put RC in this. Space and mounts for the Regner whistle are also predrilled and threaded. You can made this a full outfitted model with RC(not really needed but cool) with even the Whistle being RC controlled. Directions are in German but come with an English translation that is well done. The kit version that you get from The Train Department comes with an additional heat shield to protect the cylinder tension springs from boiler heat. I also opted to put a piece of ceramic insulation over the slotted opening in the boiler face to help send the the heat up or down. This makes her a bit more tricky to light but protects things. I may remove this and see if it makes lighting up easier. Regners are notoriously tricky to light sometimes. I also got the replacement Ronson style gas filler valve that Jay offers for these. The Regner style works, but takes some learning how to use compared to the Ronson self venting style we are more used to. Here are a couple pics of the model and a video of the initial run of the power chassis part of the model before the rain moved in today.
