5:57 peter sam said again and again "his new funnel will put ours to shame" he when into a tunnel and lost his old funnel. Now this new funnel is a drain pipe
Who on Earth would think that making a plastic shell on a live steam engine is a good idea? Polk must have been drunk af when he approved this, there's no other plausible explanation
I’ve always wondered why Aristo put in that ridiculous sound system. I did always want to smash it with a hammer just to stop that horrible whistle. But it was fun to run as long as you didn’t use the sound.
Ok... at least LGB had the sense to work with a company that knows how to make live steam locomotives when they produced their live steam Frank S. Aristocraft obviously had no idea what they were doing with this thing.
Yeah. My Aristocraft 0-4-0 live steam loco came of similar questionable quality. Before I even converted it to an 0-4-0 tank engine the @&$ plastic smoke stack caught on fire and burned bright before I could run across and put it out. I replaced it with copper pipe. Steam engines should not have plastic.
@@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447 yet, my 0-4-0 has a great cross-tube boiler. It’s like they cheaped out in some ways to keep the price down but yet here is a great boiler.
@@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447 The plastic here doesn't even save them anything, most live steamers just use the modeled boiler as the boiler. And they also added an admittedly decent (not good) but completely pointless sound unit to it. It's pretty obvious they didn't know what they wanted to do with this thing.
I once had an Aster 2 truck Shay. It had a copper pot boiler with wick fed alcohol burners. If it wasn't dripping fire on the track it was steaming poorly. Two happy days were when I bought it and when I sold it. This one is worse.
yeah aster products are known for having difficulty. I was looking at an aster Reno at one point, decided against making an offer when I watched the guy steam it up and left a trail of fire behind it as it took off, it had a fuel leak.
Haven't had too many issues with my LGB/Aster Frank S., but those had a lot of input from LGB to make them as user-friendly as possible, since the market demographic would be previous LGB customers that weren't used to live steam.
I know this is an older video. If you can buy one of the Aristocraft Mikados cheap it is a good project locomotives as the boiler and valve gear are sound. You could build a copper boiler jacket and metal cab.
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany Probably designed by Aster and made in China. I knew Louis Polk. He used to belong to Tradewinds and Atlantic Railroad before he passed. They didn't make many live steamers. I asked him about it once.
Accucraft has luckily gotten MUCH better with their products. I bought the kit for the little 0-4-0, Ruby and it runs pretty well. Valve timing was (is) a bitch though...
@@steambom3350 I'm pretty sure some of the tooling for AML and Aristocraft is being used by Accucraft these days. AML I know for sure. I could swear I saw something about Aristocraft tooling on Accucraft's website or in a newsletter email, too. Maybe you're right, I can't recall. Either way I guess I assumed they took over the company rather than them having gone out of business.
Test fire and run of Denver and Rio grande Standered guage mikado no.1204 after Restortion for a photo charter at the Death Valley lumber company senic railroad (GONE WRONG)
"I smell plastic burning again"
*Good sign*
So, you basically bought a suicidal live steam locomotive that catches itself on fire
Basically, it wants to commit self inflicted Alec Baldwin
That was an accidental gun firing. This is a locomotive that either doesn’t work, catches fire, or the plastic is melting.
Bruh the bell sounds like someone’s skull being caved in with a steel pipe wtf 😂
Because autism
Bruh I’m autistic 😂
5:57 peter sam said again and again "his new funnel will put ours to shame" he when into a tunnel and lost his old funnel. Now this new funnel is a drain pipe
Who on Earth would think that making a plastic shell on a live steam engine is a good idea? Polk must have been drunk af when he approved this, there's no other plausible explanation
I loved that you used there goes a train music
I'm glad sombody noticed it
This would work better as one of those battery powered g scale toy trains, not a live steam model.
Ewwww those are horrid
I'm too much of a steam Nazi to agree
I’ve always wondered why Aristo put in that ridiculous sound system. I did always want to smash it with a hammer just to stop that horrible whistle. But it was fun to run as long as you didn’t use the sound.
Ok... at least LGB had the sense to work with a company that knows how to make live steam locomotives when they produced their live steam Frank S. Aristocraft obviously had no idea what they were doing with this thing.
Yeah. My Aristocraft 0-4-0 live steam loco came of similar questionable quality. Before I even converted it to an 0-4-0 tank engine the @&$ plastic smoke stack caught on fire and burned bright before I could run across and put it out. I replaced it with copper pipe. Steam engines should not have plastic.
the fact that the designer thought using plastic as a jacket shows what hes been smoking, theres still lots to be had with them tho!
Many other manufacturers as far as I could see used metal Plastic is just a stupid idea because all they want is to make it cheap
@@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447 yet, my 0-4-0 has a great cross-tube boiler. It’s like they cheaped out in some ways to keep the price down but yet here is a great boiler.
@@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447
The plastic here doesn't even save them anything, most live steamers just use the modeled boiler as the boiler. And they also added an admittedly decent (not good) but completely pointless sound unit to it. It's pretty obvious they didn't know what they wanted to do with this thing.
I've recently modded my Mikado to have a brass boiler barol instead of plastic and it SHINES. It works really well and the model is very good.
So they just took their plastic models and shoved a copper boiler in it and called it a day? Goddamn.
Basicly
And then added unnecessary sound on a LIVE steam engine
I once had an Aster 2 truck Shay. It had a copper pot boiler with wick fed alcohol burners. If it wasn't dripping fire on the track it was steaming poorly. Two happy days were when I bought it and when I sold it. This one is worse.
yeah aster products are known for having difficulty. I was looking at an aster Reno at one point, decided against making an offer when I watched the guy steam it up and left a trail of fire behind it as it took off, it had a fuel leak.
Haven't had too many issues with my LGB/Aster Frank S., but those had a lot of input from LGB to make them as user-friendly as possible, since the market demographic would be previous LGB customers that weren't used to live steam.
You should strap some home made C4 on it. God that’s an awful live steamer.
It's a hybrid between a live steam train and a battery steam train the whistle was horrible in the bells is bad but it looks nice
And the whistle goes... Awwwwwwwoooowowooowowowowowowwwooooooo!!!
CHUFF CHUFF CHUFF
DING
I know this is an older video. If you can buy one of the Aristocraft Mikados cheap it is a good project locomotives as the boiler and valve gear are sound. You could build a copper boiler jacket and metal cab.
I believe the chassis was made by aster which proves why it preformed so well
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany Probably designed by Aster and made in China. I knew Louis Polk. He used to belong to Tradewinds and Atlantic Railroad before he passed. They didn't make many live steamers. I asked him about it once.
Can you upload a sequel
😈
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany its been a year
At first I was going to comment at the stack talk coming from the locomotive until I heard the intro to There Goes a Train lol ya got me
Live steam is awesome when it works and not when it has electric sounds
I'm trying to scratch build a live engine
Accucraft has luckily gotten MUCH better with their products. I bought the kit for the little 0-4-0, Ruby and it runs pretty well. Valve timing was (is) a bitch though...
Yeah I had one when I was younger, mine was timed really advanced so it waisted alot of steam
@@steambom3350 pretty sure accucraft bought them out though
@@steambom3350 I'm pretty sure some of the tooling for AML and Aristocraft is being used by Accucraft these days. AML I know for sure. I could swear I saw something about Aristocraft tooling on Accucraft's website or in a newsletter email, too. Maybe you're right, I can't recall. Either way I guess I assumed they took over the company rather than them having gone out of business.
@@steambom3350 Maybe that's who I was thinking of. Too many companies that start with the letter A. Someone get creative already!!
@@steambom3350 You have learned me today, as I've only heard two of those names before - Roundhouse and Mamod.
The bell sounds like that metal pipe falling meme lmao
I have a question about the train from the house fire. Are there any electronics or is it pure steam?
No
I remove the electronic shit off all my Steam engines after buying them
If you weather them enough they can be very attractive locomotives. However the sound is possibly the worst thing ever.
The sound it’s the first thing that’s to be removed
The owner wants to make a Santa Fe prototype out of it
At the end of the day, at least it makes a nice chuffing sound. That is, when it's chuffing.
Lol that image though
guess im not going to be suprised when my plastic smoke box door burns alive.
Run it long enough there won’t be much of a locomotive left 😝
$h1t whistle that haunts my dreams, a diesel locomotive bell.
You forgot the concrete in the boiler!
Engines been drugged definitely
but what if
it is a drug...
Jesus does that thing seriously have a PLASTIC BOILER JACKET??
THERE GOES A TRAIN!
The train gonna explode!
Nvm it funnel on fire!
pERCy
I got mine for $800. I’m not spending over 2k on a live steam engine lol.
this must be an older model??
No such thing as a new Aristocraft. They went bankrupt in 2013.
What a disgrace to USRA locomotives everywhere.
The fact that the boiler jacket was made of plastic is all one needs to know
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany Plastic steam locomotives are shit regardless if they be actually powered by steam or an electric motor.
@@Steamer96 this
Who the hell decided trains should be made out of PLASTIC smh
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany A person who smoked crack as a child.
Trying to fix the worst live steam loco
Test fire and run of Denver and Rio grande Standered guage mikado no.1204 after Restortion for a photo charter at the Death Valley lumber company senic railroad (GONE WRONG)
spirit of sclavi.
automotive COLORS
Ted Kaczynski could use that thing for one if his projects and not need to change much
Who dat
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany Unabomber
The thumbnail locomotive is like: NANI
!1!1!1!1!1!!!1
Mmmmmmmm Smokey
Its whistle sounds like siren head
What's truly baffling about this video is how they are able to keep the women away.
Well atleast you have spare parts
Although half of it is plastic
It can also be used to light aa coal burner
I’m amazed we didn’t really damage anything that wasn’t already damaged, we could easily light a fire in it right now and it’ll go
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany i hhave a question about that engine that survived a house fire
Is there a vid of it?
@@laaity I have not made a video on that one yet as I haven’t completed my plan with it, I’ll answer anything hit me
@@DeathValleyLumberCompany ok
How damaged was the engine
@@laaity cosmetically destroyed,
Mechanically untouched
I basically cleaned it up and away it went
Hey I have a Facebook now ok
I'm pretty sure that's not a live steam engine and if it was then 🤔 sh*t
It was made by aristocraft
It is live steam but it's a piece of shit
Nothing but the best on the Rio Grande
Terrible express
Wow that's bad
thats the point