Leyland Society of Model Engineers model trains - GIF

[Hoosiersmoker]

My father-in-law had me take a car to his buddy Fred's house to look at it. It had a ticking sound that I was sure was a lifter sticking (Buick Limited). He told me as soon as I pulled up it was an exhaust leak. I disagreed and he walked into his shop and got an oil can. He opened the air filter cover and dribbled oil into the carburetor and smoke poured off the side of the motor out of the hole in one of the exhaust recirc tubes that had a small hole in it and was leaking! I walked back to his shop and he had a nearly completed steam locomotive on a work table. I asked about it and he told me it was a small one he was finishing up. It was about 36" long and he rode it around his property. The big one he took to the Hesston Steam Locomotive Museum(?) when they had shows and such (it was nearly 8' long!). He pulled back a tarp and there was a beautiful locomotive and about 5 wooden cars for riding in. All built by him, by hand! He was a cool old guy! I was about 30 then and he was about 80-ish so he's long gone but I bet all his locomotives still work just fine!