Shay construction

[Waldbahner]

It's even better when your girlfriend is enthusiastic about your hobby!!!

Not necessarily :?
Now I've to maintain my Forney loco and build a second riding car, while she grapped the Shay throttle all for her own

Last weekend, we were for the steam meet at the club layout and run the Shay for 7 hours each day. The loco made it quite well and there are only a few new problems left. The axle driven water pump gut damaged due to a bad soldering joint and I've to fix it this week. Anyway, running the locomotive with injector only is also possible so we could go ahead for some more laps on Sunday.

My girlfriend got trained as engineer this weekend (okay, it's my fault) and did it quite well. Meanwhile Katrin can operate the Shay alone and I can just sit beside the tracks and watch the drive mechanism when she's passing with the train...

Here are some rare photos. Video will come later if uploaded at YouTube.

Bye, Gerd