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2. Live steam - Wikipedia

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   A live steam festival (often called a "Steam Fair" in the UK and a live steam "meet" in the US) is a gathering of people interested in steam engine technology. Locomotives, trains, traction engines , steam wagons , steam rollers , showman's engines and tractors , steam boats and cars , and stationary steam engines may be on display, both full ...

3. Rail transport modelling scales - Wikipedia

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   Accucraft Trains also offer finely crafted live steam models in this scale. Gauge 1 has seen something of a remarkable revival in recent years after decades of near extinction commercially, with a growing number of smaller UK manufacturers offering electrically powered and live steam locomotives and rolling stock in ready to run, parts and kit ...

4. List of rail transport modelling scale standards - Wikipedia

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   Popularly used for the small scale live steam. No.1: 1:32: 45 mm (1.772 in) Popularly used for the small scale live steam. Corresponds to NEM 1 or NMRA No. 1. No.3: 1:22.6: 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (64 mm) The smallest scale able to pull real passengers. Was one of the first popular live steam gauges, developed in England in the early 1900s.

5. Model engineering - Wikipedia

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   Model live steam locomotives predominate as the most popular modelling subject in model engineering. [7] As such they deserve special mention. Live steam refers to the use of pressurised steam, heated in the model locomotive's own boiler, to turn the wheels via miniature steam cylinders. Not all locomotives are live steam - some model engineers ...

6. Rail transport modelling - Wikipedia

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   A Japanese H0e scale model railroad One of the smallest (Z scale, 1:220) placed on the buffer bar of one of the larger (live steam, 1:8) model locomotives HO scale (1:87) model of a North American center cab switcher shown with a pencil for size Z scale (1:220) scene of a 2-6-0 steam locomotive being turned. A scratch-built Russell snow plow is ...

7. Mamod - Wikipedia

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   Known as the Mamod Steam Railway, this offering became the first affordable, mass-produced live steam set in the United Kingdom, experiencing successful sales. Mamod swiftly expanded the range by introducing additional locomotives, namely the SL-2 and SL-3 , available in both ready-to-run and kit-form versions, catering to O (32 mm) and 1 (45 ...