Wayne Godshall | A Profile In Live Steam | Godshall Custom Machining

We sat down with Wayne Godshall, the founder of Godshall Custom Machining, at the 2023 Buckeye Limited Convention at the Mill Creek Railroad. In this profile, Wayne discusses his background in the live steam hobby, the equipment he has built, the future of the hobby, and more. Climb aboard and enjoy this Profile In Live Steam here on The Steam Channel.
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[@philthompson3415]

I own that first live steam engine that Wayne built and talked about. Still running it in 2023! And, I agree with everything he said about building and enjoying live steam locomotives. All of us who knew, learned from and loved Joe Mastrorocco miss him dearly!

[@kleetus92]

Joe was a very good man!

[@jacbobo56]

Love this stuff. Great interview with the man himself. Been interested in his origin story. Looking forward to working with him someday

[@metalmill52]

Great story. Really excellent tribute to the hobby and the importance of mentoring. Glad Wayne bought American Model Engineering and kept that going. Have bought some parts from Wayne and been very pleased. Much appreciated!

[@robertdonaldson6584]

I enjoyed it

[@frankgtb3586]

Hello, always nice to see the videos here, greetings from Germany👍keep it up, thank you

[@Approach_Medium]

Its been a pleasure to chat with wayne the last 2 years at mill creek. Its been even more of a pleasure to get to operate one of his fine machines. The H10 my buddy owns is a well cared for and very well made locomotive. Its been easy to work on and an absolute dream to operate!

[@alazygamer1032]

Ive always loved 1 inch guage trains though never had the money for for stuff like it but Ive personally ridden on some but Ive actually never seen a running steam one

[@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530]

Great video!

[@waynepugh4981]

I would like to have a steam engine

[@atlflylow]

What can one expect to pay for a 1.6 scale H-10?

[@kaipu3197]

I have a question do I have to be a mechanical engineer to build one of these?

[@mylesspear]

It would certainly help, but not really. All you really need is a good mechanical mindset and your pretty much set. If you don’t? That’s fine, too! Just find someone willing to teach you the ropes of this hobby. :)

[@kaipu3197]

Thanks. I can do trig and welding I also have blue prints. I just need to learn machining maybe. Hopefully all that will help

[@kleetus92]

@@kaipu3197 honestly as long as you're methodical, you should be good. Don't be afraid to ask questions, but also make sure you sometimes have thick skin as some folks unfortunately don't like to share their knowledge.... thankfully those folks are getting harder to find.
Good luck!

[@lazman111]

What I usually recommend if you have the opportunity to go to a community college that has multiple classes in machine shop, welding, and maybe even learning how to draw then, CAD, then that would make a great background for someone looking forward to start building one of these projects for themselves.
And if you don’t have a mechanical background initially it is something that can be learned with the help of others.
The other thing I recommend is get a small stationary steam engine project and start with that, because it does get expensive to make mistakes but at least with the small engines the cost of replacing a piece that may have gotten broken or not machine correctly It’s not too bad.