Stationary Boilers

Sounds like an Impractical Design.

Here ya go:

http://www.ministeam.com/acatalog/Kits.html

http://cedesign.net/steam/steam-links1.htm

http://www.blueridgeshoponline...ory.sc?categoryId=14

All I did was Google

live steam stationary boiler kits

Try these.

http://www.mamod.co.uk/

http://www.wilesco-uk.co.uk/

Do a Google search for P.M. Research. They make kits for a variety of stationary steam engines, small belt-driven machines, and several boilers. They are miniatures so are not practical for actual machine work, and they are a little large for O gauge, but might fit the G-scale crowd. THey also require you to do the machining.

If you are looking for larger working steam engines, there are several other manufacturers that make such engines including for marine applications. You didn't really define if you're looking for O-scale scenery items or functional machinery.

Either are out there...

Fleischmann made some beautiful models, from small ones with oscillating cylinders to big ones that could actually generate electricity. I saw them in Christmas toy displays in John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, along Market Street near City Hall.

Come to think of it, a large Fleischmann model is visible inside a powerhouse at Roadside America, Shartlesville, PA, past the tunnel behind a waterfall and a grand wooden trestle bridge that supports a main line.

If I remember the boiler looked as if it was close to O!

Wilesco still makes stationary steam engines like what you are thinking of.  They are a bit pricey.

John

Many of us who collect and operate old toy steam engines use compressed air instead of steam. It's easier to use and safer, too.

You can find the engines and accessories on Ebay, quite often for reasonable prices.

There is a publication I get out of the UK called Model Boat that has ads for companies that make all manner of model boilers, small steam engines, for stationary, automotive (model tractors), and model boat applications, and many rev iews and articles by people who have built them.   Some of the model kits are literally, works of  art.  The magazine probably has a website with links to their advertisers: anyway, googling ought to get you some hits, I have not checked.

The stationary boiler kits that Sears and others (e.g., Edmund Scientific years ago) used to sell were fun.  I had one with some accesories like a small sawmill and such that the engine would power through little elastic bands used as belts, etc.  The boilers were fired with small pellets of some dry, crumbly combusible material, and i think they made sterno versions, too.

But it always frustrated me because the ones they offered weresingle cylinder single-acting engines that were not configured so they were self starting - once you had steam pressure (or air pressure) up, you had to spin the flywheel with your finger to get them going.  I never liked that.  Some of the more modern kits advertised in Model Boat are twin, or even four, cylinder with valving, etc., to make every cylinder double acting - I think even a single cylinder model like this would start itself once it had pressure - a two cylinder surely would.

No more so than a Lionel Legacy or MTH Premier steam locomotive.  Plus, the steam exhaust and sounds and are real.

Rusty

I think this is what you are looking for i got this in the 60's when i was 10 and to think they would play with fire back then .

Guy

I forgot the engine was a Jensen No. 75.

Guy

Compressed air?  From a small air compressor, I assume, which is neither shaken or stirred!

Actually, the air compressor I have shakes a bit - about 007 times per second, I think.  :-)

Jensen still makes their line of engines.

http://www.jensensteamengines.com/

My dad gave me his Wilesco steam engine from the mid 60s.Wilesco still sells the engine.It is fun to fire it up to run the model tools.

Dan

Here is an impressive video of a tool shop full of operating Wilesco tools.

Dan