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	: This was Gene Stevens' track. The track with 1/4" square rail, drilled and nailed from the top. Must have been like riding down a highway warning strip. He built big boilers and hideous cabs. He was also the police chief of Oxford, Maine.		: This was Gene Stevens' track. The track with 1/4 inch square rail, drilled and nailed from the top. Must have been like riding down a highway warning strip. He built big boilers and hideous cabs. He was also the police chief of Oxford, Maine.

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	The track at Oxford was built by the Lake Thompson Fish and Game Association. Being sportsmen, they seem to have decided that a sporting track was needed, so they provided stiff enough grades to test the hauling capacity of any locomotive and the handling skill of experienced engineers. If there are any weak points in either the design of the engine or the technique of the engineer, they will eventually be shown up. When a successful run is completed, there can be no doubt as to the capabilities of either man or machine.		The track at Oxford was built by the Lake Thompson Fish and Game Association. Being sportsmen, they seem to have decided that a sporting track was needed, so they provided stiff enough grades to test the hauling capacity of any locomotive and the handling skill of experienced engineers. If there are any weak points in either the design of the engine or the technique of the engineer, they will eventually be shown up. When a successful run is completed, there can be no doubt as to the capabilities of either man or machine.

			== Gene Stevens ==

			From Cap Purinton, 27 January 2014:

			: This was Gene Stevens' track. The track with 1/4" square rail, drilled and nailed from the top. Must have been like riding down a highway warning strip. He built big boilers and hideous cabs. He was also the police chief of Oxford, Maine.

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	by G. A. Olmstead, <i>Model Craftsman</i>, August 1936		by G. A. Olmstead, <i>[[The Model Craftsman]]</i>, August 1936

	Courtesy of [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98267 Steve Bratina, <i>Chaski.org</i>]		Courtesy of [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98267 Steve Bratina, <i>Chaski.org</i>]

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	by G. A. Olmstead, <i>Model Craftsman</i>, August 1936		by G. A. Olmstead, <i>Model Craftsman</i>, August 1936

			Courtesy of [http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=98267 Steve Bratina, <i>Chaski.org</i>]

	<i>The live-steamers hold their summer meet up in Maine. A neophyte writes in wondering how to change tinplate to live steam and this department editor ends up with about five hundred pounds pressure and no safety valve.</i>		<i>The live-steamers hold their summer meet up in Maine. A neophyte writes in wondering how to change tinplate to live steam and this department editor ends up with about five hundred pounds pressure and no safety valve.</i>

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	The two gauges, 2-1/2 inch and 3-1/2 inch, are laid in the shape of an ellipse, about 1,000 feet in circumference. There are up grades and down grades, curves and tangents, so that the engine which holds both its speed and steam pressure must not only be well built and of excellent design, but it must also be handled by a man who understands the art of making steam and keeping up his water level.		The two gauges, 2-1/2 inch and 3-1/2 inch, are laid in the shape of an ellipse, about 1,000 feet in circumference. There are up grades and down grades, curves and tangents, so that the engine which holds both its speed and steam pressure must not only be well built and of excellent design, but it must also be handled by a man who understands the art of making steam and keeping up his water level.

	To the man in charge of a free steaming engine, a run on this track means unalloyed pleasure. The long pulls up grade, when the exhaust is clear and loud and the fire becomes white, give him a feeling of ~~exhiliration~~ which can never be obtained from short runs on level track. The sensation of power which comes from always having a little more steam than the engine uses,--the hurried firing while drifting down grade--watching the water level and handling the throttle to the best advantage, these are the pleasures which can only be had on a track of sufficient length to permit performances comparable to those of full size locomotives.		To the man in charge of a free steaming engine, a run on this track means unalloyed pleasure. The long pulls up grade, when the exhaust is clear and loud and the fire becomes white, give him a feeling of exhilaration which can never be obtained from short runs on level track. The sensation of power which comes from always having a little more steam than the engine uses,--the hurried firing while drifting down grade--watching the water level and handling the throttle to the best advantage, these are the pleasures which can only be had on a track of sufficient length to permit performances comparable to those of full size locomotives.

	The Brotherhood of Live Steamers is composed of those who build or have built live steam models. This necessarily limits their membership, in fact, they are the elect among ~~modelmakers~~, along with the men who build three foot boats which travel twenty times their length in a second, though this is not meant to disparage those who build accurate, scale, non-working models. The Live Steamers must be more than good machinists, capable draftsmen and practical engineers. They must have patience, ambition and experience, qualities which make a visit to one of their meets an event to be remembered with pleasure and looked forward to with an ~~anticipication~~ of meeting again one of the finest groups which it has been the writer's privilege to know. The next meeting will be at Marblehead in September. I shall have the date in time for the next issue.		The Brotherhood of Live Steamers is composed of those who build or have built live steam models. This necessarily limits their membership, in fact, they are the elect among model-makers, along with the men who build three foot boats which travel twenty times their length in a second, though this is not meant to disparage those who build accurate, scale, non-working models. The Live Steamers must be more than good machinists, capable draftsmen and practical engineers. They must have patience, ambition and experience, qualities which make a visit to one of their meets an event to be remembered with pleasure and looked forward to with an anticipation of meeting again one of the finest groups which it has been the writer's privilege to know. The next meeting will be at Marblehead in September. I shall have the date in time for the next issue.

	The track at Oxford was built by the Lake Thompson Fish and Game Association. Being ~~sprotsmen~~, they seem to have decided that a sporting track was needed, so they provided stiff enough grades to test the hauling capacity of any locomotive and the handling skill of experienced engineers. If there are any weak points in either the design of the engine or the technique of the engineer, they will eventually be shown up. When a successful run is completed, there can be no doubt as to the capabilities of either man or machine.		The track at Oxford was built by the Lake Thompson Fish and Game Association. Being sportsmen, they seem to have decided that a sporting track was needed, so they provided stiff enough grades to test the hauling capacity of any locomotive and the handling skill of experienced engineers. If there are any weak points in either the design of the engine or the technique of the engineer, they will eventually be shown up. When a successful run is completed, there can be no doubt as to the capabilities of either man or machine.

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BLS Summer Meet 1936

by G. A. Olmstead, Model Craftsman, August 1936

The live-steamers hold their summer meet up in Maine. A neophyte writes in wondering how to change tinplate to live steam and this department editor ends up with about five hundred pounds pressure and no safety valve.

On the 7th day of June (1936) the Brotherhood of Live Steamers held their Summer meet at Oxford, Maine. This event was of more than ordinary importance to the owners of the engines, as the track is one which tests the capabilities of even the best locomotives.

[[File:BLS Summer Meet 1936.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The BLS 1936 Summer Meet was held at Oxford, Maine at the track built by the Lake Thompson Fish and Game Association.]]

The two gauges, 2-1/2 inch and 3-1/2 inch, are laid in the shape of an ellipse, about 1,000 feet in circumference. There are up grades and down grades, curves and tangents, so that the engine which holds both its speed and steam pressure must not only be well built and of excellent design, but it must also be handled by a man who understands the art of making steam and keeping up his water level.

To the man in charge of a free steaming engine, a run on this track means unalloyed pleasure. The long pulls up grade, when the exhaust is clear and loud and the fire becomes white, give him a feeling of exhiliration which can never be obtained from short runs on level track. The sensation of power which comes from always having a little more steam than the engine uses,--the hurried firing while drifting down grade--watching the water level and handling the throttle to the best advantage, these are the pleasures which can only be had on a track of sufficient length to permit performances comparable to those of full size locomotives.

The Brotherhood of Live Steamers is composed of those who build or have built live steam models. This necessarily limits their membership, in fact, they are the elect among modelmakers, along with the men who build three foot boats which travel twenty times their length in a second, though this is not meant to disparage those who build accurate, scale, non-working models. The Live Steamers must be more than good machinists, capable draftsmen and practical engineers. They must have patience, ambition and experience, qualities which make a visit to one of their meets an event to be remembered with pleasure and looked forward to with an anticipication of meeting again one of the finest groups which it has been the writer's privilege to know. The next meeting will be at Marblehead in September. I shall have the date in time for the next issue.

The track at Oxford was built by the Lake Thompson Fish and Game Association. Being sprotsmen, they seem to have decided that a sporting track was needed, so they provided stiff enough grades to test the hauling capacity of any locomotive and the handling skill of experienced engineers. If there are any weak points in either the design of the engine or the technique of the engineer, they will eventually be shown up. When a successful run is completed, there can be no doubt as to the capabilities of either man or machine.