Enos Yoder - Revision history

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Reading 4-4-0

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	File:EnosYoder 4-4-0.jpg\|A 3/4 inch scale Reading 4-4-0 built by Enos W. Yoder.		File:EnosYoder 4-4-0.jpg\|A 3/4 inch scale Reading 4-4-0, boiler built by Enos W. Yoder.
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Reading 4-4-0

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	[https://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?p=310985&hilit=Enos+Yoder#p310985 Bill Yoder wrote on <i>Chaski.org</i>]:		[https://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?p=310985&hilit=Enos+Yoder#p310985 Bill Yoder wrote on <i>Chaski.org</i>]:

	: This Reading 3/4 inch scale 410-419 class 4-4-0 was bought by someone through the Discover Live Steam webpage some weeks ago. I owned this loco for more than 40 years, in fact, its new copper boiler was built by my dad, Enos Yoder, in the late 1960s. Dad only built the boiler, and that was around 1967. We bought it in Miami 22 November 1964. Had once been owned by Gordon Varney of electric train fame. Excellent chassis was built in the 1930’s, I believe in New Jersey. These Reading 4-4-0’s from 1914 were the heaviest Americans ever built. It never had a tender. We sold it around 2007.		: This Reading 3/4 inch scale 410-419 class 4-4-0 was bought by someone through the Discover Live Steam webpage some weeks ago. I owned this loco for more than 40 years, in fact, its new copper boiler was built by my dad, Enos Yoder, in the late 1960s. [[Enos Yoder\|Dad]] only built the boiler, and that was around 1967. We bought it in Miami 22 November 1964. Had once been owned by Gordon Varney of electric train fame. Excellent chassis was built in the 1930’s, I believe in New Jersey. These Reading 4-4-0’s from 1914 were the heaviest Americans ever built. It never had a tender. We sold it around 2007.

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Reading 4-4-0

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	[https://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?p=310985&hilit=Enos+Yoder#p310985 Bill Yoder wrote on <i>Chaski.org</i>]:		[https://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?p=310985&hilit=Enos+Yoder#p310985 Bill Yoder wrote on <i>Chaski.org</i>]:

	: This Reading 3/4" scale 410-419 class 4-4-0 was bought by someone through the Discover Live Steam webpage some weeks ago. I owned this loco for more than 40 years, in fact, its new copper boiler was built by my dad, Enos Yoder, in the late 1960s.		: This Reading 3/4 inch scale 410-419 class 4-4-0 was bought by someone through the Discover Live Steam webpage some weeks ago. I owned this loco for more than 40 years, in fact, its new copper boiler was built by my dad, Enos Yoder, in the late 1960s. Dad only built the boiler, and that was around 1967. We bought it in Miami 22 November 1964. Had once been owned by Gordon Varney of electric train fame. Excellent chassis was built in the 1930’s, I believe in New Jersey. These Reading 4-4-0’s from 1914 were the heaviest Americans ever built. It never had a tender. We sold it around 2007.

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Biography

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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

	~~[[Bill Yoder]] wrote the following, 27 March 2024:~~

	[[Enos Yoder]]’s (1927-2022) first steam project was a free-lance 1/3rd size traction engine on rubber tires with a V-belt drive started in 1955. Four years later it got a second, improved engine up on top by cutting an original upright engine from the 1930’s to fit. It was sold to Ohio around 1966. The marine-style boiler steamed poorly – we learn from our mistakes.		[[Enos Yoder]]’s (1927-2022) first steam project was a free-lance 1/3rd size traction engine on rubber tires with a V-belt drive started in 1955. Four years later it got a second, improved engine up on top by cutting an original upright engine from the 1930’s to fit. It was sold to Ohio around 1966. The marine-style boiler steamed poorly – we learn from our mistakes.
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	[[Bill Yoder]]		[[Bill Yoder]]

			27 March 2024

	== Obituary ==		== Obituary ==

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Obituary

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	[[File:Enos Yoder injector plunbing.JPG\|thumb\|center\|500px\|Injector designed by Enos W. Yoder]]		[[File:Enos Yoder injector plunbing.JPG\|thumb\|center\|500px\|Injector designed by Enos W. Yoder]]

			== Biography ==

			[[Bill Yoder]] wrote the following, 27 March 2024:

			[[Enos Yoder]]’s (1927-2022) first steam project was a free-lance 1/3rd size traction engine on rubber tires with a V-belt drive started in 1955. Four years later it got a second, improved engine up on top by cutting an original upright engine from the 1930’s to fit. It was sold to Ohio around 1966. The marine-style boiler steamed poorly – we learn from our mistakes.

			Visiting [[West Michigan Live Steamers\|John Pugh]]’s 1 inch scale track at Grand Junction MI in 1958 and 1959 convinced Enos to try his hand at railroading. The first locomotive was a 4-4-2 from Little Engines castings, built between 1958 and 1966. It went to Pennsylvania in 1973.

			An important interlude was a 16 inch gauge Canadian-Pacific-style 4-6-2 bought as a rusted hulk from [[Kenneth Stanaback]] (1915-88) in Grand Rapids MI in late 1959. Enos had it running within a year. He brought it along from Goshen, Indiana to Florida during the move of December 1960; he had hopes of setting up a small, commercial train park in Oneco, Florida. But he had bitten off more than a young family father can chew and sold everything off to Missouri in April 1961. It was later re-gauged to 12 inch and rejoined its sister at the [[Wabash, Frisco and Pacific]]. It was re-boilered and is now numbered #401. It has lost all of its CP appearance, but the sister at WF&P, #400, retains some of the original CP looks. These two British-built Pacifics had begun their careers running at the Canadian National centennial exhibition in Toronto in 1927. That makes them virtual sisters of the famous [[Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway]] locomotives.

			After the move to El Dorado, Arkansas in 1974, Enos got into 2 ½ inch scale and [[Allen Models\|Allen]] cylinders. The first result was a 2-4-2, #4, with a thin 8-inch boiler and inside Marsh gear. Completed in 1976, it was sold off to Texas the following year. This loco began his series of popular 2 ½ inch scale, 7 ½ inch gauge 2-4-2’s with Southern valve gear, of which at least four or five copies have been built by other parties. Enos retained the 10 inch boilered 2-4-2 #5 a good while. Completed in El Dorado in 1981, it was sold to the Baumgardners of North Carolina in 1996. Only #12, a 2-6-0 completed in 1999 and last in his line of 2 ½ inch scale, US-style locomotives, remains in the family.

			An incomplete-but-running Romulus 0-4-0 is also in the family. It was brought up to running order by Fred Veenschoten of Pensacola in 2016-17. Florida water did a number on #12’s boiler and it got a new steel boiler from Tennessee’s Scott Reedy in 2018. Enos built around 15 locomotives and two traction engines; about five of the total remain in the family, in Florida. George Johnson from the Parrish, Florida club has Enos’ 0-4-4T Chloe.

			Enos worked on the projects of a number of other people. They included a 1 inch scale 0-6-0 and a Minnie traction engine in the same scale.

			Several of his last projects, a Little Engines 4-4-0, Romulus and a Wren 0-4-0, were done to use up castings long owned by a friend in Miami. The Wren, which has [[Hackworth valve gear\|Hackworth gear]], was completed and sold in 2008.

			Returning to Florida in 1982, he set up a new layout on his property east of Sarasota. One creation during this period was a Swiss Crocodile electric. He was the founding president of [[Florida Live Steamers]] around 1970 and was a part of Larry Smith’s layout at Parrish, Florida from its inception.

			Rest in peace, Dad, at least we still have fond memories and several of your grand locomotives.

			[[Bill Yoder]]

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Atlantic

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	File:Enos yoder1 wildacres rr.jpg\|Wildacres Railroad # 1 built by Enos W. Yoder.		File:Enos yoder1 wildacres rr.jpg\|Wildacres Railroad # 1 built by Enos W. Yoder.
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	== Romulus ==		== Romulus ==

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Atlantic

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	File:Enos yoder5.jpg\|Miniacres Railroad #5 built by Enos Yoder		File:Enos yoder5.jpg\|Miniacres Railroad #5 built by Enos Yoder
	File:Enos-larry blecha.jpeg\|A 2-4-2 Atlantic built from Enos Yoder drawings		File:Enos-larry blecha.jpeg\|A 2-4-2 Atlantic built from Enos Yoder drawings
			File:Enos yoder1 wildacres rr.jpg\|Wildacres Railroad # 1 built by Enos W. Yoder.
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Atlantic

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	== Atlantic ==		== Atlantic ==

			[https://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?p=191721&hilit=Enos+Yoder#p191721 Jeff Dute wrote on <i>Chaski.org</i> 13 October 2010]:

			: That engine was the design of [[Enos Yoder\|Mr. Yoder]] of Sarasota, Florida. I know 3 of these engine built. Mr Yoder built 1 and I know the Mr. Charlie Fair of Ohio built 2 over the years. The first one, which I think is the one running at Apex in the video (not positive though) was sold a number of years ago. Then Mr. Fair built a second which I think was finished last year or year before.

			: Based on my conversation a number of years ago, Mr. Yoder based the model on Redwood Valley Railroad #4. He used Allen Models wheels, cylinder and construction methods to build the engine. If I remember correctly he used Southern Valve Gear.

			: Mr. Yoder had sketches for this engine but no formal drawing. I have copies of the sketches somewhere I will try to locate them. Hope the information helps.

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			File:Enos yoder5.jpg\|Miniacres Railroad #5 built by Enos Yoder
	File:Enos-larry blecha.jpeg\|A 2-4-2 Atlantic built from Enos Yoder drawings		File:Enos-larry blecha.jpeg\|A 2-4-2 Atlantic built from Enos Yoder drawings
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Mogul

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 [[File:Enos-yoder-sarasota-fl-obituary.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Enos W. Yoder]]
 [[Enos Yoder]] was active in Live Steam since the 1950's.  He is the father of [[Bill Yoder]]. Enos was a founding member and the first president of the [[Florida Live Steamers]] club.
 == Mogul ==

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Mogul

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	File:Enos MV12.120221.Parr2-k.jpg\|One of the many 2-6-0 Moguls built from Enos Yoder's drawings		File:Enos MV12.120221.Parr2-k.jpg\|One of the many 2-6-0 Moguls built from Enos Yoder's drawings
	File:EnosYoder MV12.120221.Parr-Dad1024.jpg\|Enos Yoder at the throttle of his 2-6-0 ~~Mogule~~ "Nicole".		File:EnosYoder MV12.120221.Parr-Dad1024.jpg\|Enos Yoder at the throttle of his 2-6-0 Mogul "Nicole".
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