Category Archives: 6″ Traction Engine

I started building the 6″ scale version of the Little Samson traction engine shortly after finishing the 3″ one. I liked it so much that i felt it would be really nice to have an identical pair of engines, albeit in different sizes: quarter scale and half scale. I am expecting this … Continue reading… →

The boiler on its delivery pallet, around 250kg of boiler steel! There is a 12″ rule on top for scale. As this build was now being sold as a buy-per-chapter book, the web log here was stopped, sorry. The book is still on sale in my shop.