Live steam help?

Is this a trick question. LOL

Pete

no i am looking to purchase on in the future. i am looking at them and the tracks they are on are skinnier. 

Patrick I hope you know I was kidding around. Anyway, I would defer that question to many in here that likely know the answer too that question.

I may be wrong, but so long as the gauge is correct and the live steamer runs on that track, I cannot see why. Seems likely.

Merry Christmas and best of luck.

Pete

As long as it is O gauge, it should be fine on Lionel tubular track.  The switches may be a different story, depending on the back-to-back measurements on the wheelsets.  Are you looking at purchasing a modern live steamer like the Mamod, or a vintage locomotive?  I have a Weeden No. 1... gotta love the live steam!

I know! haha and thank you so much! sorry im young and dumb and trying to figure out everything about o gauge! merry Christmas!

I love looking at them on youtube but have never seen one anywhere not even  at trainshows. it doesn't seem popular in the US or at least Ohio... i wish they weren't so expensive either.. and what do you power them with?

Live steam means just that. Live steam. That is what makes them go. In "G" gauge, they are remotely controlled. At least the ones I observed once at a get together several years ago.

Yes, they are expensive because of the workmanship to create such beautiful scale reproductions. I have seen prices for G scaled locomotives well into the high thousands. As for O, I cannot speak on prices as I have zero experience with that end of it.

I would research (which is what you are doing now), before investing any money at all in live steam. It requires allot of effort and work, but it is well worth what ever efforts one puts into it.

Pete

I just have the Weeden in O gauge, which is an alcohol fired locomotive (as are many of the vintage steamers)  I think the newer Mamod locomotives are now butane fired.

Here is a video of my Weeden:

My other live steam locomotives are a bit bigger than O gauge... 

So, wind up guy, was I correct about the track then. Can the author of this thread run a steam on regular tube type Lionel track.

Obviously you have experience in this. I do not and did not want to mislead him or anyone else.

Besides, I am curious and want to learn about this as well.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas.

Also, the video of the locomotive is priceless. Love steam when its real!

Pete

Thank you, Pete.  I think Lionel tubular track is a great choice due to the all metal construction.  I can't speak for every O gauge live steam locomotive out there, but I would suspect that most will have tread & flange profiles that will work with tubular track.  Again, switches might be a problem, regardless of the type of track used.

Here is another link worth taking a look at... Joe's Marx Commodore Vanderbilt that he converted to live steam!  If I ever get caught up on my other live steam and windup projects, I'm going to have to attempt this myself.  Joe did a great job on it!

Also, the Mamod Mark II is available in O gauge or No. 1 Gauge, and is butane fired.  Neat locomotive, I would love to have one.

Merry Christmas!

Any gauge live steam is messy due to the steam oil/water effluent out of the stack.

I run my live steam LGB/Aster "Frank S" (1:22.5 scale) on LGB gauge one track. 

It is butane-fired.

Yesteryear Toys is a USA distributor for the Mamod gauge 0 and gauge 1 live steam locomotives. Originally fired by solid fuel tablets, upgrades to alcohol or butane are available.

Larry

Roundhouse makes SR&RL #24 (2-6-2) which runs on either G-gauge or O-gauge, depending on which gauge you order. SR&RL was a 2 ft narrow gauge railway were O-gauge is more prototypical than G-gauge. I once had the G-gauge version. It ran flawlessly, RC controls. Live steam is great stuff. It cost $3,600 when I bought mine.

I once owned the Roundhouse Engineering SR&RL 2-6-2 (1:22.5 scale) with RC and it was (and is) a smooth running loco. Mine was gauged for 45mm and I ran it on LGB track.

BTW, Roundhouse Engineering is a true "mom and pop" operation out of Doncaster, UK, and their quality and reliability is second to none, and that includes Aster!