Knott's Berry Farm Train #41 in 1:20.3 Live Steam

[TheDeputation]

dude i love this!!!!

[PHAEDRIDER]

very nice

[tbmccoywesterndesign]

Thanks so much, beautiful work! In 1971-73 I fired, robbed and for a short time engineered both #40 and #41. I Now live in Wyoming.Nice to see so many people who love an earlier Knotts as I do. We are lucky to have known it back then.

[DirtyAbner]

@tbmccoywesterndesign I'm glad to hear from you. It's even possible you may have robbed me when I was 8 or 9! I also made a live steam model of the #1 Calico mine engine and am working on the wooden mine cars to go with it. I'll post a video whenever I get that finished.  I've even collected drawings for "Old Betsy" hoping I can find a suitable chassis to start with. I still go back to Knotts every few years just to see how much of the original ghost town is left.

[pennyf9]

I like that! very accurate! did you scratchbuild the headlight and smokestack or did you buy them from Accucraft?

[DirtyAbner]

@pennyf9

Thanks, I had to work entirely from photographs I could find.  The stack, headlight, and pilot are all built from scratch.

[pennyf9]

@DirtyAbner That must have took you a while! it turned out nice!

[pennyf9]

@DirtyAbner nice, sorry for not replying, did you paint it also? the scheme looks sharp and clean.

[DirtyAbner]

@pennyf9 Yep, paint was tricky because it looks different in every photo, and it changed a little every few years.

[losangelesboys]

nice. how much for that loco ?

[DirtyAbner]

Accucraft sells them for around $2700. A lot of money, but way cheaper than other live steam models out there.

[CGiordano464]

very koo, altho they look alot cooler in my opinion wth their originl paint scemes they show today

[DirtyAbner]

Most people like trains in their original look because they're into trains. I liked it this way because I'm more into old Knott's Berry Farm than trains. Besides, if I didn't do it, who would?

[strokedmustang66]

thats cool, one of the guys from work just got one a few months ago