We recieved delivery of a Wilesco D5 steam engine today – and right after dinner, set it up!  The above picture is it up and running (and it goes at some pace).

For more photos (of the work in progress of assembling it too), see…

• The full packaging.
• Work In Progress 1
• Work In Progress 2
• Assembled and ready to go
• Boiler flames
• Full speed engine

I can recommend a steam engine to people who’d like to know how those big engines work – they’re surprisingly simple to begin with (though I’m sure adding gears to them will make them a lot harder to understand).  Great to learn from though.  I’m out of esbit tablet fuel now though, so until I can find some more, there’ll be no more sputtery, steamy, whistles for me