Live Steam Engine Starting Out

The Spirit of Traverse City starting out. The Spirit of Traverse City is a 1:4 scale of an Atlantic steam engine. Is is located in Clinch Park in Traverse City, MI on sunny West Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan.

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Science & Technology

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• 15
• gauge
• narrow
• steam
• engine
• locomotive
• traverse
• city
• MI
• spirit
• of
• 1:4
• scale
• 1/4

[garbon2535]

The calculated tractive effort is 527 lbs.

[SUPERDAVIDLEVINE]

ohe thing I h ateee is thesepeople with live steam goes don,t know what to cal very pised off when I tell them I just like the eal thing with pride the call it a reall locmotive I asume itsin thre emagination I do not get ugly about it juststae facts,oh I wonder if ost ofthem have died off forit apeals to anolder person itmight be okay if they did not treat it lie the real thing full size

[manga12]

thats a big small scale locomotive and its is a shame they killed it, steam is not as easy to find as it once was, though there is plenty of traines and museums around the midwest, and a live big mainliner called the 765 around where I live only a 30 minute drive or so for me, but I have yet to ride on her.

[doerlidoe]

Wow, this is realy a big model loco !

very nice ! Live that

[paullubliner]

@mikado1555 Time to take it to the local TV and radio media people. Call it: "SAVE OR TRAIN HERITAGE!!"

[mikado1555]

My dad and I led the complete rebuild of the locomotive and cars and she has been running great since 2005.

I have been told that the dept of parks and rec is in charge of the train and they make the decisions about it, yet I know for a fact that they did not decide to remove it from Clinch Park. The Bay Front Planning committee decided it did not fit their idea of a multi-generational park and have not said why they think that.

The Traverse City politics have killed the train.

[mikado1555]

This is the last year for the train. The Bay Front Planning committee removed the train from the Clinch Park plans (construction will start this fall) with little or no discussion according to commissioner Jim Carruthers and Gary Howe. No one else on the Bay Front (T. Michael Jackson, Jennifer Jaffee, Nate Elkins, Michael Borer, Rick Shimmel and Russ Soyring) have responded to inquiries about the train.

[Dinosorable]

Beautiful engine!

[mikado1555]

The boiler can probably produce (calculated) around 6-9 horsepower.

[KenMacMillan]

How powerful are those engines? 30hp?