" I don't know what will happen in the next year or two as my heart heals, but currently I can't do much, not because I physically can't, but because I'm on disability and I don't want to do something that loses me that" Had no idea you were broken-hearted, but, shit, that happens to lots of us. Now, if that statement don't utterly piss you off, be aware, please, I'm just joshing with you. Hang in there with the rest of us old farts! WTF? Knowing me by now as you must, do you think I would mess with building something that didn't "work" mo.
" ..... do you have any videos" Back in 2002, when I started building, I didn't even have Internet! Not available in the middle of 7 million acres of National Forest in the Ozarks. Folks were getting pissed, though, at General Telephone & Telegraph, and finally, Century-Tel, which bought them out, offered dial-up service. Video? Hell we couldn't even receive email worth a shit, unless it was only text! So, no, sorry, no video. I loved the challenge of designing and building that beast, started work before any kind of income was available, my wife, bless her, must have seen the importance of it to me, went along with it. 9 years in building, not unusual for 1/8 scale live steam. mo.
Century-Tel...is that the same as Century Link? To which the Seahawks' home stadium is nicknamed "The Clink?" Anyway, that loco would be cool to see running and pulling a string of freight cars and a silver-painted Burlington waycar.
CenturyTel became CenturyLink, yes. They had bought the telecom rights to our location in the Ozarks from ITT. mo.
Full-size, they don't make one big enough! Scale-models, I suppose the original I bought back in the '60s would work. Nothing really critical to be torqued on my model, anyway. mo.
In the Dynamometer room at Victor Gasket, Dee Atchley had the biggest torque wrench I could imagine, it was about 4-feet long, with a big dial-indicator read-out which went to 500 ft.lbs.! mo.