These few pages are all about my Feldbahn 0‑6‑0 from Station Road Steam and the
’little’ side projects associated with it. The creation of this website was highly inspired by
reading Gentoo’s Journals from time to time. Their field reports and little
stories helped me to figure out some difficulties or even prevented mishaps from happening in the first place. So
if you haven’t been there already, I would like to encourage you to at least take a glimpse.
The first letters contributing to the Feldbahn Journal were typed on 10 May 2022, in expectation to steadily build up a
compendium of helpful and perhaps even entertaining articles over time.
The engineer’s little helper to get things started.
Starting out this hobby nearly from scratch, a steam raising blower was needed for the Feldbahn 0-6-0. As of so often there are many offers to be found on the internet – and just as reliable, either they don’t fit the engine or the engineer’s purse. And so it starts – an own 12V DC steam raising blower project.
BTW, this blower should also fit a Stafford or General Gordon....
Some say the injector is probably the most mysterious part engineers have ever come up with.
In this article I’m not going to cover the technical details and functionality of an injector, as others have already covered this subject very well. I’d rather like to share my experiences with them, specifically on the Feldbahn, so you get the chance to experience a much quicker start than I did.
The cover image shows an Injector No....
After I’d seen pictures of other Feldbahns on the internet with having derailing bars attached to them, I thought to myself it might be wise to have one too.
I figured the most vulnerable parts must be the cylinder drain cocks because they were pretty much the lowest – and additionally – one of the more ‘fragile’ parts on the loco. So in case of a derailment, it would be very likely that they would be damaged....
As an engineer of a steam engine, one must be able to feed and keep up with a well-set fire – or even start one at first. Unfortunately, since the 7¼" Feldbahn 0-6-0 is my very first steam locomotive, I’m not equipped with such tools.
Even after hours and hours of extensive search through the internet I couldn’t find firing irons that satisfied my needs. I wouldn’t say there weren’t any, but either they had the wrong dimensions or they were far too expensive for the purpose for which they were intended for....
