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Chris's New Steering Engine
crueby:
Back home again after a trip up to the middle of Maine for the Summer At Leonards Mills event at the logging museum. GFreat time, great weather, great group of people. Spent most of yesterday driving this steam Lombard log hauler around
as well as these two, both gas-engined Lombard trucks:
Time for a nap out on the front porch! :sleeping:
redhouseluv:
The log hauler looks like an amazing beast, I had to Google it - built from 1901 - 1917, great to see it still operational, too fast for me ;)
crueby:
--- Quote from: redhouseluv on June 15, 2025, 09:01:40 PM ---The log hauler looks like an amazing beast, I had to Google it - built from 1901 - 1917, great to see it still operational, too fast for me ;)
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Wonderful machines, the first commercially successful tracked vehicles. Holt took it to the next level with independent power to each track for steering without front wheels. Lombard made 80-some steamers, and also licensed the patents to the Phoenix company in Wisconsin that built its own version with vertical engines on the sides. The museum also has a second steamer on loan from the Crooker family, but its boiler doesn't meet modern code so we just run the museum owned one, which had a newer boiler made so we can run it at public events.
I first went up there to measure it for a working model, got hooked, and have been volunteering there ever since. Its about a 10 hour drive from home for me but well worth it! I've become thier main steersman at the events, also have run the throttle position too, but more recently had to give that up when the state licensing rules tightened up to make it so only licensed boiler engineers could run the throttle. I'm starting the paperwork to get that, at least for a year or two. Can't run the boiler itself, but we have a great couple that come up from the Boothbay Railway Village where they run the locomotives.
Great museum, all volunteers. They have several sawmills, blacksmith shop, line driven machine shop, and a little village tucked way back in the woods outside Bangor. Google the Maine Forest and Logging Museum for details. The website will be updated this coming month with lots more info on the machines. Our next event is in July, with the big two day event first weekend of October.
crueby:
Here is the thread with my Lombard model...
https://www.modelenginemaker.com/index.php/topic,7528.0.html
cnr6400:
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