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Thanks very much for this comment, and congratulations on the beginning of your new railroad!!! 🔥 Sounds like you’ve got a great spot as well, spending time on this land playing with steam has truly been such a blessing. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you ever need an extra set of hands or machine, us “backyard” folks have to stick together haha!! Cheers, all the best and I’m excited to follow along with your R&GS!! 🙌🏻 God bless

Thanks so much, Matthew!!! Hope you’re well brother! Look forward to sharing a bunch more footage of Dulce under steam this year for sure. If there wasn’t such a big pond between us I’d sure love to get the gals back together haha, but man you’re always welcome to come meet Dulce if you’re ever in the states!!! 🔥 All the best & keep in touch for sure!!

Love this- you’re absolutely right!! Nothing is guaranteed; to get ahead, get started!! Appreciate the kind words and always enjoy following your channel and beautiful Butter Pig. Definitely stoked to get these big gals together one of these days! 🔥 All the best brother!!

Wow thank you very much!! 🙌🏻 Grateful to have gotten into the hobby and started my collection at a young age (and finding this piece of land for the RR was pure luck as it’s always been a dream for me too), but the best time to start in the Live Steam / backyard railroading hobby is right now!!! Cheers & thanks again, best of luck with your future railroad as well!!! 🔥

@@TheSteamTrainMan Absolutely, great catch!!! The music licensing on this channel is a nod to that movie having a huge influence on my restoration work 20+ years later. Although my NKP 311 is a 4-6-2 Pacific, I’ve detailed this locomotive to “represent” similar modifications made by Nickel Plate to locomotives like 587 as they came onto the roster from various roads.

@@FoxIslandRailroadCo yeah it just such a catchy theme

I have a model of heavy Pacific that looks just like that one, but in Crescent limited livery

@@RMphy89 Thank you for the kind words!! Appreciate that 🙌🏻 if I can do it, you can too!!

@@vettebecker1 Thank you! Apologies if it wasn’t clear in the narration of this video, this shed was just built to temporarily house the locomotive for one week between arrival and gaining access to my shop. We would never store a locomotive outdoors :) This is now used as a fair weather storage shed.

@@FoxIslandRailroadCo Awesome, I didn’t catch that. like you said it’s a big investment!! Happy Railroading

@@vettebecker1 absolutely, but I greatly appreciate your concern!!! Wouldn’t be good to have her rusting away in the TN humidity for sure 😁

They sure are, bottoms are also char-treated. This entire shed was lifted and moved back in April, and placed on top of a nice gravel pad for better drainage. The idea for this foundation-less shed was just to utilize materials I had, and it only really needed to exist for one week to house the locomotive inbetween arrival and gaining access to my shop. Anything beyond that has been a bonus, as long as it’s still solid we’ll keep using it for a car barn or fair weather storage! 🔥 Thanks very much for following along!!!

@@FoxIslandRailroadCo awesome!!

Thanks very much, Lee!! Hope you’re doing well and getting into some fall weather up there! Sadie does love to ride along, she’s been a great sport helping out with track work this summer. The bigger issue is that she loves to chase our family of deer!!! Also working to build more wire fence to make sure she stays on our farm when we venture out into the woods for longer rides 😁 Hope to see you guys soon!!!

Thanks very much for the kind words, and for following along!! 🔥

@@johnlipsey3866 Hey there! This was a 22 ton truckload of screened 1/2-1/4” crushed limestone, roughly 12 yards loaded dry but hard to know exactly. I paid just under $700 per truckload of material. I’m in TN and work directly with a local quarry, but since I don’t have a dump truck and I’m out in the country, I’m also paying a flat rate of $150 to my driver per load. Altogether, this is still about 1/4 the price of the previous two quotes I received from “gravel companies”, and the quarry is extremely responsive and great to work with as they have loads of business with highway contracts, etc. and are always ready to load within an hour. Definitely highly recommend going straight to your local source if possible!

Thanks Mr Lee!!! Great to hear from you as always- hope you’re enjoying the running season!! Luckily MSLS facilities didn’t see any damage from that storm and everyone was safe that I know of, although unfortunately there was some significant carnage around the city they’re located in. Sadly I don’t think I’ll have a chance to get to any more meets this season, although I’m dying to come back up and run with you guys!!! Hopefully I’ll squeeze a SCRR trip in next year. I’ve also heard that Dulce might be a bit too big to fit through several spots at Eagle Point, so I might need some buddies to take measurements for me before I make the drive there 🤣 but hoping to visit Mill Creek in OH one of these days too for sure!! Hope you guys have a great Fall Meet and hope to see you soon 🔥

Thanks very much, Dave!! Really appreciate it, we had a blast even with the wet weather! I wasn’t sure how this footage would turn out as I had forgotten my large floodlight, but figured I ought to share something while the next 2 railroad updates are still brewing. Hope you’re well, and hope your steam season has been great so far!!! 🔥

Thanks very much 🔥

7.5” Gauge! 3 inch (to the foot) scale.

Thanks so much, Dave!!! We definitely enjoyed our visit to MSLS, really amazing what they’ve done with the space, and how much the town park’s infrastructure has grown around the railroad. I think you’ll love riding in the cab too!! It’s really apples to oranges, I still crave running my 1” stuff just as much, but it definitely satisfies the “big throttle” itch for me and I pinch my fingers much less 🤣. I’m still painfully behind on video-editing here, but the railroad is coming along quickly now with the addition of my new Kubota! Moved 25 tons of ballast last week, 25 more delivered. Hopefully I can finally extend an invitation for you guys to come run one of these days!! Hope you’re doing well! 🔥

@@FoxIslandRailroadCo I'm definitely less comfortable on my 4-3/4" gauge stuff now than I used to be. Looking forward to finishing my 7.25" engine one of these days. Wow, that's a lot of ballast! Kubotas look like really nice tractors. My old Massey-Ferguson is approaching 50 years old, but it makes life so much easier around the railroad, even on my little pike. 🙂

⁠@@rockyridgeshops7109 That’s awesome! Always really enjoy watching the progress on your big engine, she’s going to be stunning!! I’m also a bit jealous of your older machine to be honest haha, unfortunately the used market is so crazy down here that I couldn’t find anything for a suitable discount to new. That being said, I did get super lucky with this machine and I’ve been loving it so far, so I’m grateful this one found me!! 🙌🏻

@@FoxIslandRailroadCo Thanks so much. And don't be jealous of my old clunker - it's old enough to be worn out, but not old enough to be a "classic!"😆 (Sort of like me 🤣) Hope we get to see that new Kubota in future vids.

Hey there! Great question, this is actually Not an RMI loco but an earlier, slightly smaller and sturdier predecessor- Dulce was designed and built in Perth, Australia by Willis Light Engineering. The RMI locos are slightly simplified, still great locos, I believe I’ve run almost every wheel arrangement they offer over the years. Like anything, it depends who builds the kit… but overall, they’ve always been great locos for most hobbyists needs! I will relay that I’ve heard folks having trouble getting ahold of RMI the last 6 months or so, may be worth waiting to send a check to see how that plays out. I’m a big fan of the RMI catalog myself, so I sure hope all is well!! There is a small blurb on the loco’s history in the description if you’re interested, and I look forward to sharing more of Dulce’s story soon. I do highly recommend (and really enjoy) the “ride-in” style locomotives if you have the space and resources to maintain, it’s a whole different experience both maintaining and operating for sure! Cheers 🔥

I saw your locomotive out running when I arrived to unpack on Thursday, but unfortunately not sure if I had a chance to grab any shots of your run for the longer video!! We fought the rain to run Friday afternoon but ended up getting a great night run in, and Saturday was beautiful though I had to head home. Hope to run with you next time, beautiful locomotive!! Always loved the C. P. Huntingtons 🔥

Thanks! No worries I just enjoy running it. We will be back out to MSLS for their fall meet. Hope to see you then

Man unfortunately no, I saw it, but just missed it with the camera!!! Hope you guys had safe travels and look forward to seeing your vids for sure!! Good luck with the phone fix too 🔥

@FoxIslandRailroadCo thanks and we made it home safe should have my phone fixed in a couple days

This set actually came with the locomotive, although if you’re looking for some; there was a fellow on Facebook selling 1.5”/2.5” scale rerailers as well as skids a year or two ago, he may have an ad on DLS as well. I’m not sure where these quarter-scale castings originated, but if I had to guess they came from Australia as well… if not made by the builder Ian Willis, likely WATO or another prominent supplier of that region in the early 90s. To my knowledge, RMI acquired several of WATO’s dies and patterns (including the quarter-scale couplers)… so if they offer a rerailer, it’s likely the same pattern.

Yes good eye! This is a 1.5” Diameter Buckeye 3 Chime rebuilt by Mountainview Machine Co

That’s awesome!! Backyard railroads are so much fun. Would love to pay him a visit sometime if you’re anywhere near TN! Cheers 🔥

He's up in the eastern part of Connecticut.

Great question!! Although hunting this stuff down can (at times) feel intimidating, the live steam community is very small, and I was made aware of this batch of rail by several friends in the area. Joining your local Live Steam club is always a great place to start, those folks tend to be connected to other organizations, etc. I will also admit that I was searching & waiting for a deal on a batch like this for roughly three years, so sometimes it just takes some time to find what you’re looking for 🔥

Hey Mr. Jack, Thanks so much for the kind words!!! I know I’ve definitely seen photos of your beautiful High Line online before, and I have been very inspired by railroads like yours!! Such a shame 3.5” gauge has dwindled so much here in the middle of the country, but certainly hoping more folks will be inspired to “join the fun” once we have a track to run. The forest really has been a blessing here, the shade it provides is the only way I could keep working through the heat last summer!! Sure hope to make a trip out west one of these years, would be a pleasure to cross paths in person one of these days!! Thanks again for taking the time to drop a comment. All the best! -Jimmy 🔥

Thanks so much, Dave!! Always a great time visiting the Boucher shop - Dick is truly such an unsung legend of the hobby, and has always been so supportive of the next generations. I really look forward to making some chips on new running gear for the rear engine soon! Hope you’re doing well!! 🙌🏻🔥

No way!!! That’s incredible. Watched the videos of big sis’ arrival there about a dozen times in the process of moving this one 🤣 Would love to see some photos, thank you for dropping a comment!! 🔥

Thanks so much brother!! Appreciate the kind words. Hoping to release another railroad update in the next couple of weeks, introducing the new 7.5” line as well as updates on the 3.5” Highline and the 4.75” 🙌🏻🔥