SlideValve
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What was your first engine?What was your first engine, what was the engine that started the collection  ? Mine was a Wilesco D6, and i still love it
Connor
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Wallace
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Mine was a SE2a. Still a favourite engine of mine
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Ross
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Mamod TE1A
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verithingeoff
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Early SR1, still my favourite---
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Bugsy
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Wilesco D6, my neighbour was about to take it to the tip. 
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TE1DRIVER
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TE1/A i love it dearly cracking engine
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Sandman
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Wilesco D146 Black and brass TE Kit.
One of the missus favourites as well.
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Roly Williams
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Re: What was your first engine? | SlideValve wrote: | What was your first engine, what was the engine that started the collection ? Mine was a Wilesco D6, and i still love it
Connor |
That's two questions for me. My first engine was a SEL Major, but that was 50 years ago and is long gone. The first in my current collection was a Mamod SL6 Jubilee edition.
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gd9704
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Jensen 65.....had it for all of 2 weeks now! 
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johnreid
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A new Wilesco D10, I am so glad I hot a Jensen 25 weeks later as I would have given up on the hobby, the D10 was JUNK
I have owned a few decent Wilescos since, not all are Junk
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redryder
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First one I played with was my Dad's Weeden 14.
First steam engine that was mine was a Christmas gift around 1960. It was a black firebox Jensen 55. I still have it and I brought it back to life a few years ago.
Gil
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Minor1PJG
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No surprises - A Mamod Minor 1.
Aah, a lovely little engine, I remember seeing it in the toy shop window in 1977. Insufficient funds in my pocket, a sigh as I walked away to start saving up the money. I didn't manage to save up for it but Father Christmas had enough and the rest as they say is history!!
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Les
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A Cheddar Pipit Steam Plant.
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WeedenSteam
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Mamod minor 2 when I was around 10 years old, some 56 years ago, it was in my parents basement for years then it disappeared. I bought another one, newer model, off eBay a few years ago and the rest is history.
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Celsius 100
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A Mamod Goliath piston valve traction engine. One seems to become two ...................and so the collection grows.
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scalex
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Mine was the Bowman Braint valvless twin that has now been passed onto Mooseman
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nissan boy
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my first engine was a wilesco d40
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dervard94
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Home-made traction engine, had it for 12 years now, and can still remeber the day I got it!
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dampfmaschinenjoe 1967
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Mine was the Wilesco D 365 Steam Roller I own until today, nearly unused but slightly converted to butane fireing !
cheers Joe
P.S. For heavy use I bought a similar one and it causes some attraction when I use it on steam rallyes
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simon hudson
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mine was a 65-67 SR1 the first of quite a few. I got wrong a couple of weeks ago the other half couldn't get into the shed!!.Not that I took any notice OUCH!!-Si
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Burnmafingers
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My uncles early 70's TE1A, love it dearly 
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marc robson
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mine was an se2 flat base bought at a boot sale for £15 pounds
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BK
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Wilesco D 9 kit. Have been battling small nuts and bolts ever since.
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Caprice
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A Midwest Heritage! Less than a year ago I saw a video of a steam engine and thought it would be nice to have one... then I bought one and another one and one more...
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igy569
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Jensen 76. First engine I modded too (about a week after I got it). 
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RocDoc
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My first engine was (in) a boat, Bowman Seahawk. My first proper steam engine was a Burnac Vulcan.
Pete
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johnreid
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Was the Seahawk improper?
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MooseMan
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| scalex wrote: | | Mine was the Bowman Braint valvless twin that has now been passed onto Mooseman |
Wow, what a start!
I love that engine so much.....might be my favourite.
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robertosala
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A Jensen 75. Bought it a few months ago. Sold it then bought a Jensen 25, then another 75, then a Jensen 45 brass boiler, then a Jensen 10-1951 all in a few months.
Very soon instead of blood will have steam running in my veins!
First steam engine I saw was almost 275 years ago, at school in 1975, the image has been in my head forever. Never thought I will ever have one.....now have 4 and scaryly growing.
Rob
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johnreid
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275 years ago, you must be almost as old as I am 
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robertosala
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Yeap! almost as old as the picture in your avatar.... was that Back to the Future I II or III?  wouldn't like to be the cause of an off topic...
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redryder
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| johnreid wrote: | | 275 years ago, you must be almost as old as I am |
And you don't remember what you saw 275 years ago ?
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Kev&Mel
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My first engine was a TE1a with log trailer I wanted one when I was 8 and finally got one when I was 42 I can afford better toys now
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27ace27
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Wilesco D10!
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Lenny
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Wilesco D10 and still have it. Runs great with metho burner
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Paul H
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Mine was an early 60s Jensen 75 given to me by my great uncle. Then I got in to locomotives, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Steamfan
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Wilesco D10, ran it to near death. Still have it.
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hansdampf
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it was a shitty d406 in brass/black from Wilesco.
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pauly
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wilesco showman
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Lozza1
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A Renown vertical 101
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bowman
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luton bowman pw203, played with it since i was old enough to play with anything, i am 44 !!
sandy
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IndianaRog
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Fleischmann 122/3...got it in 1961, still have it and still run it.
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jakesm
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mm2 (loaner as a kid)
followed thirty years later by a new
te1a
(bought direct from the factory)
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Swift Fox
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A Wilesco D365 Steamroller, which is still my favourite engine amongst my others.
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jakesm
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 & hellooooo from south africa to swift fox! 
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KMV
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Hello,
a Wilesco D20, from my family. My first eingine i bought was a Wilesco D12. I was 10 years old.
Andreas
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Alf
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Wilesco D6
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