-> "Early Engine Club" and I was told they took them into the
-> Henry Ford Museum after hours, hooked compressors to some of
-> the steam engines there and ran them from compressed air to
-> demonstrate how they worked. I have also been told that the
-> Henry Ford Museum will make copies of full sized blueprints for
-> early locomotives available to members of the "Early Engine
-> Club" here in Michigan. 

-> One of the men I worked with inherited a scaled down working
-> steam locomotive from his father (with tracks) that was large
-> enough to pull children on boxcars with seats on them around
-> his yard using steam power. ;-)

-> I found out about his locomotive when I recognized what he had
-> been working on after-hours as an 8" drive wheel for a
-> locomotive.  Some of his father's parts were wearing out. :-)

 In a park up in the Los Angeles Calif area they have a Live Steamers
Club that runs their minature Steam engines on weekends. After helping
restore a Real Steam engine, The SP 2353, those tooys are of little
interest to me. 
Unfortunatly the San Dirgo Railroad Museums SP 2353 is shut down becaue
of Boiler Cracks arround the Staybolts. First estimate is over $200,000
to fix .Since we are only a 1/2 step form Insolvency the future for Live
Steam is a bit bleak.
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