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What is your Favorite Locomotive?

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Hobby Enjoyment

Which activity gives you the most enjoyment in the Live Steam hobby?

• Pulling the public on run days

• Building locomotives

• Building rolling stock

• Track work

• Operations

• Landscaping

• Building scale buildings, signals and scenery

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Satisfaction Survey for battery and gasoline locomotives

If you purchased a locomotive (not steam) in the past 36 months, I want to hear from you.

If you're happy or even if you're not happy with your locomotive, I want to hear about it.  I'll ask you questions like:

• Was the manufacturer easy to reach?

• Did your locomotive arrive on time?

• Did you have problems with it?

• Was it worth the money?

Email me to request your "Satisfaction Survey" now (in the text of your email type the word "survey".   This survey covers completed, ready-to-run locos only.  No kits or "home built" units please.

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Railroading Articles

Issue 148

From Zero to Steam In 124-¾ Hours

by Terry D. Spahr 

About thirty years ago, my two sons and I discovered something exciting! We found the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum in Griffith Park near the LA Zoo! What an exciting place for us to spend Sunday afternoons!  It had operating miniature steam locomotives that burned coal and pulled cars for us to ride and had the smell that I never forgot, coal smoke! My sons loved to ride but I remembered my childhood and thought to myself, “Wow, wouldn’t it be a wonderful hobby to own and operate a live steam locomotive?”

I’m 67 years old now and six months ago I started thinking about the Los Angeles Live Steamers (LALSRM) again and my dream to own and operate a coal burning locomotive.  I joined the club and began my research on the internet looking for the types of trains, the sizes of trains, and the track gauges. I remember asking Jim O’Connor from Discover Live Steam the difference between scale, size, and gauge. He answered me with a quick email and suddenly it was clear!

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