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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still playing with trains! No pretty pictures of the South Park (even though the Aspens will peak in about a week). But I did crawl through a teeny tiny hole into the firebox to weld together a new oil pan on the locomotive. Of note: The tube sheet is still dry! No leaks! #southparkrail

A smiling DSilbizzy inside a steam locomotive firebox wearing a flipped up welding helmet, a hi-vis yellow shirt and grey overalls, along with safety glasses and a confusingly tall Mohawk.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bonus pics. The night before after the rain I got a cool picture of 608 in front of the roundhouse lit only by the (replica) locomotive headlights that the South Park mounted on it to illuminate the turntable at night. And, the steam locomotive moving on the turntable to go back in the roundhouse.

DSP&P 608, an 1879 wooden boxcar sitting in front of stall 2 of the 6 stall stone roundhouse in Como, CO. It’s nighttime, and there are two lights mounted to the sides of the roundhouse, that are both pre-turn of the century steam locomotive box headlights that illuminate the radial tracks and the 1881 vintage girder turntable.

Klondike Mines 4, a 3’ gauge 2-6-2 that is undergoing restoration is pulled onto the turntable after heavy rail by Plymouth #4 “the Game Changer” at the end of Boreas Pass Railroad Day.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Who still plays with trains? I do, of course! Saturday was Boreas Pass Railroad Day in Como. I spent my normal day talking to people about the restoration of KMR 4, but before the public showed up boxcar 608 was looking amazing (and the lettering dates back to 1879 at least). Also: Rainbow!

Smiling middle aged DSilbizzy standing in front of a stone railroad roundhouse with an old boxcar sitting outside in the morning sun.

A smiling DSilbizzy with a Mohawk and Denver Summit FC sunglasses smiling with a brilliant double rainbow in the background above an old boxcar and the stone roundhouse.

DSP&P 608. An 1879 (or earlier) boxcar that somehow had its original paint survive, sitting outside the roundhouse in Como, CO.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Well I went up to a lake near Rollins pass and thought about how much AV would have enjoyed a place like this.

Forest lake, a high altitude lake near the continental divide in Gilpin county, CO. The water is insanely clear, and there are some coniferous trees on the surrounding hillsides. With one small patch of snow in the distance.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Still playing with trains! At my age! The boiler is holding water even better than it was, and by the end of the day it was up to 82°F. Which is good because as we put heat on it, the little weeps and leaks tend to take up and seal themselves. Also machining a steam manifold out of SA105.

A smiling DSilbizzy wearing safety goggles a little Mohawk, and a t-shirt standing in front of the left side of a steam locomotive with the boiler bare for inspection.

DSilbizzy taking a selfie while the lathe makes a facing cut on a 4.5” (11.43cm) SA105 high carbon steel forging that will one day become a steam manifold plumbed to the boiler of Klondike Mines No. 4, a 3’ gauge steam locomotive.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Yet more Trains! Another successful work week in Como, ending in the open house today. Notably we filled the boiler with water to check for leaks (we didn’t have any to speak of) and then at the end of the day we drained some of the water out, just proof of a full boiler really. Tubes are good!

A smiling DSilbizzy wearing blue overalls, safety glasses and a huge smile kneeling next to Klondike Mines 4, a narrow gauge 2-6-2 on a turntable being moved by a 25 ton Plymouth diesel locomotive which is painted green. KMR 4 (a steam locomotive) has a steady stream of water coming out of the left side blowdown valve, which just proves that the boiler is full of water.

A smiling DSilbizzy standing in front of the left side of a narrow gauge steam locomotive (Klondike Mines 4) pulled just outside of the Como, CO roundhouse on a sunny day.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Trains! Tube end beading is complete! Out of 136, I think I did 132. My arms sure felt it! Bonus pic of an ancient powered hacksaw we macgrubered together to make a cut in a 4.5” diameter piece of SA105 steel. Only took 1.5 hours to cut through there, which is faster than by hand!

A smiling DSilbizzy in the smokebox of a locomotive giving a thumbs up, showing the tube ends beaded over behind him.

An OLD (originally leather belt driven) powered hacksaw cutting through a 4.5” solid round bar of steel.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

More trains! I’ll definitely finish rolling the beads on the smokebox end tomorrow morning, and if you get the third picture you know how big of a deal that is!

A smiling guy with safety glasses and a little Mohawk inside the smokebox of a steam locomotive. With 100+ tubes beaded over.

A smiling DSilbizzy with safety glasses, a little Mohawk, and a Bravermountain Mushing shirt on stands in front of a steam locomotive undergoing a full rebuild.

Dirty water flowing out of the blowdown valve of a steam locomotive. This means that there is water inside the boiler.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Saturday June 20 is an open house, where we will have docents out and about to give tours, and I promise I won’t be doing deafeningly loud things in n Saturday. 🤣. Como, CO will be busy on Saturday! (Bonus pic of track crew laying a sixteenth radial from the turntable)

6 volunteers using rail tongs to move a rail into position on freshly placed railroad ties in Como, CO. The sky is deep blue with just a few clouds. On the other side of the turntable is a boxcar awaiting restoration, and the locomotive’s tender.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Who still plays with trains? This guy! It’s the summer work week in Como, so Saturday-Saturday. I’m spending a lot of quality time beading the tubes in the smokebox end. I’m going to do what I can to finish them up tomorrow. We might even put some water in this week!

Sunday shot of the front tube sheet about 1/2 full of tubes.

Monday evening shot showing all the tubes installed.

Tuesday afternoon. About half of the tubes have been beaded over with the big rivet gun, AND BOY ARE MY ARMS TIRED!

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

More train stuff! I’m quite sure @mtrainierrailroad.bsky.social knows what I’ve been up to, because they are doing it too! Just in a much bigger boiler than ours! I kind of like rolling tubes, it’s therapy, in a way.

Smiling DSilbizzy with a Mohawk inside the firebox of a steam locomotive with a handful of tubes rolled into the rear flue sheet. Start the clock for 15 years for the next time we have to do all this again!

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Get in nerds! We’re doing train stuff! All week long baby! Doing big stuff.

Smiling DSilbizzy with a medium sized Mohawk and safety glasses standing in front of a partially disassembled steam locomotive inside a roundhouse.

DSilbizzy smiles while pointing at the dry pipe sticking out of the front tube sheet of KMR 4, a 3’ gauge 2-6-2 undergoing restoration in Como, CO. Getting ready to install the dry pipe.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Old guy still playing with trains? Sure am! Last week and yesterday. With a whole lot more train nonsense coming soon! Bet @mtrainierrailroad.bsky.social knows what’s coming soon…

DSilbizzy with a little Mohawk and safety goggles standing outside in the rail yard in Como, CO with C&S boxcar 8311 in the background.

A smiling DSilbizzy with a little Mohawk standing inside the Como roundhouse, with C&S coal car 4319 and the beginnings of a pile of cut tubes for the boiler of KMR 4, which will be going in sometime in the next month…

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Who else still plays with trains? Just me? Can’t be just me. I thought I was about done inside the boiler. Turns out I was wrong.

A smiling middle aged guy with a sweet Mohawk and safety glasses inside a steam locomotive boiler. Behind him is the rear tube sheet, with the crown sheet, stat bolts and water space around the firebox clearly visible.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

More from last week. I even slept out under the stars outside the roundhouse (in march. In the South Park.) which was pretty cool. Pictures of the header and dry pipe adapter, and the T-brackets that the boiler braces will be attached to.

The Como roundhouse at night, with bright stars and a clear sky. Taken from inside a sleeping bag with the feet of the sleeping bag visible.

Machined steam locomotive header and dry pipe adapter. Ready to be installed later, but the spherical surface of the adapter will make a steam tight seal with the header when installed.

T-brackets installed on the back side of the front tube sheet. The hole at the top center is for the dry pipe.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

That said: All last week I was playing with trains! Drove the Plymouth diesel a bit, modified the oil quadrant bracket (chamfers are what separate us from the animals!), and we had NDT out to X-ray the welds in the boiler (it passed).

A smiling DSilbizzy inside the cab of a 20 ton Plymouth diesel locomotive, stopped while Sam flips a switch and closes a gate.

A cleaned up/trimmed bracket for the oil quadrant, clearanced to provide clearance for the water glass valve.

An X-ray of a welded seam held up to a light. On the right of the X-ray film is a rivet and a second sheet of metal. The weld is uniform and passed inspection.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Was I playing with trains today? Not directly. But I DID make some missing taper attachment parts for the Regal lathe…. Which will enable further playing with trains!

A smiling DSilbizzy with safety glasses and a Mohawk points at the bed clamp and bar he just made for the lathe’s taper attachment.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

A day late. But played with trains yesterday. And will all week next week! I’m incredibly lucky to get to do stuff that I find interesting and lets my mind have to work a bit (I’ll be making a taper attachment bed clamp from scratch, for instance).

A smiling DSilbizzy stands in front of the South Park Plymouth on the turntable in Como. Blue skies, a few snow capped peaks, and another volunteer walking in the background.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Also good guess. But this is a metal lathe. And mostly unrelated to the use of the logs.

LeBlond Regal 19” lathe in the roundhouse in Como. Behind it is a Bridgeport knee mill.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Couple days of hectic train playing. Well, gathering supplies for future train playing. You win a railroad preservation prize if you can guess what the logs might be about, and otherwise I worked on a lathe. Getting ready for lots of screwing around with trains next week.

Smiling DSilbizzy standing in front of a log truck loading medium sized (for Colorado) Doug fir logs to take to Como.

Smiling DSilbizzy next to a mostly disassembled steam locomotive.

The Como roundhouse and turntable. Blue skies above, and a little bit of snow in the turntable pit.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Surprise train working day! Wanted to redo some measurements inside the boiler (thats what the string line is for). But it was a nice day in the South Park! I even had the roundhouse doors open for a few hours.

A smiling DSilbizzy with a real nice Mohawk stands in front of a stone roundhouse, with snow capped peaks in the distance.

DSilbizzy crammed inside the boiler of Klondike Mines No. 4, with a string line running between the tube sheets to measure the location of the dry pipe.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Who plays with trains? I do. It’s me. Today we got the WW2 vintage Regal lathe in service, and then spent some quality time inside the boiler measuring to fabricate a new dry pipe.

A smiling DSilbizzy with mohawk and safety glasses in front of a Regal 19” lathe, inside a stone roundhouse.

A smiling DSilbizzy with a Mohawk sitting inside a steam locomotive boiler to measure parts of it. Behind him is the front tube sheet, with its 136 tube holes.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

As promised: Played with TRAIN! Obligatory selfie, plus some details. Mounted the oil firing valve, relocated the hydrostatic lubricator, among other things today.

A smiling DSilbizzy standing in front of a steam locomotive undergoing restoration.

An oil firing valve attached to the boiler of a steam locomotive with a cutout for the water glass valve.

Inside the cab of a mostly disassembled steam locomotives. The hydrostatic lubricator has been relocated higher up and farther forward to aid in the lubrication of the cylinders, and improve the ergonomics of the cab.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Well preparing to play with trains more today. Today I hauled a donated old lathe, a really nice Regal LeBlond 19” lathe up to the roundhouse. Tomorrow we will unload it and start setting it up, plus other train fun!

A smiling DSilbizzy with a Mohawk stands in front of a decent sized lathe on a trailer, in front of the stone Como roundhouse. There is a little snow on the ground (about 1”) and the roundhouse doors are all closed.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

One more day or trains! First, the sunset in the South Park was unreal tonight. The new front tube sheet is fully welded in. And bonus selfie while Scott welds a stud on the backhead for me.

A crooked smile from DSilbizzy with a gorgeous pink sunset over the South Park, with Kenosha Pass in the distance. In the foreground, there’s a turntable, and some railroad tracks. Twobold railroad cars are also in the background.

Looking in the front of a steam locomotive boiler. The front tube sheet has 136 holes for flues, and the sheet has just had its welds completed.

A smiling guy wearing safety glasses and a little Mohawk stands in front of a narrow gauge steam locomotive undergoing restoration. On the backhead, a guy is welding or grinding on the boiler.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

More roundhouse shenanigans! More welding on the tube sheet by the welding crew, and meanwhile I did somebody’s and ends, like finished making tapered wedges for the valve stem rods.

A smiling DSilbizzy standing in front of a partially disassembled steam locomotive undergoing a rebuild.

DSilbizzy (with a Mohawk and safety glasses) pointing out the tapered valve stem rod wedge.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Today’s Roundhouse shenanigans. If you know—you know today was a big day. Literal months of planning and work came together for this picture.

A smiling guy named Dan with safety glasses and a Mohawk standing in front of a boiler with a front tube sheet about to get welded in.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Yep! Old guy playing with trains pretty much all week!

Middle aged guy with a small Mohawk, wearing safety glasses standing in front of a steam locomotive getting rebuilt.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Who is an old guy still playing with trains? Me. It’s me. RGS20 in Durango is an amazing this to experience.

A selfie of a middle aged buy smiling in front of Rio Grande Southern 20, at Cascade wye on the Durango & Silverton, wearing his late friend Dean’s denim jacket. Miss you Dean!

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Played with trains a lot this week. It was a lot warmer in the South Park earlier this week. Made a wedge for a valve rod (notice the BLW standard practice behind it), worked on the main rods (not pictured) and found more crap. This had a galvanised pipe attached to it. Should be SCH160!

Just me standing in front of the Como roundhouse and turntable. Mountains of the South Park are in the background.

A wedge newly machined per the Baldwin Standard practice for the steam chest valve rod.

Mitutoyo calipers measuring A pipe coming out of a steam dome. It’s FAR too thin to be safe, so it will get replaced sometime.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Just a guy playing with trains (yesterday). The picture of me pointing to the boiler shows why mechanical standards are really important. On the boiler—The two studs on the bottom: 1912. Never leaked. The holes on top? Someone put in straight bolts. They leaked, chewed up the threads.

A middle aged guy wearing a work jacket and safety glasses points at a steam locomotive boiler, with two holes showing signs of leaking, and two studs below that showing no signs of leaking.

A South Park sunset. Picture of the Como turntable, with two railcars on the other side of the turntable, and snow capped peaks with sunset light on them.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Just me playing with trains again! This crosshead took nearly a year to get installed. Careful measuring, shimming, reaming tapered holes, making tapered bolts, and then after all that it goes together in about 10 minutes. Very satisfying.

DSilbizzy pointing at the right side crosshead of a steam locomotive (Klondike Mines #4)

The finally assembled right side crosshead guides and crosshead installed on Klondike Mines #4, a 36” gauge 2-6-2 inside the roundhouse. The locomotive is partially disassembled, as part of a thorough overhaul.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Best part about being an adult? Probably playing with trains. Today we mounted the left main rod to measure some things to manufacturer thevtaoered bolts for the crosshead guides). Pretty great seeing all the rods on one side!

A smiling DSilbizzy pointing at the main rod installed on Klondike Mines 4, a 3’ gauge 2-6-2. Much of rest rest of the locomotive is partially disassembled.

The main/drive rod and connecting rods installed on the left side of a 3’ gauge 2-6-2 locomotive showing that they all fit together nicely!

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is objectively not enough FIF.

Not enough Five Iron Frenzy. All the Hype, Between the Pavement and Stars, Until This Shakes Apart, and When They See you. That’s all that populates through iTunes today.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Who still plays with trains? I do! Today started out with the South Park Zephyr doing its thing, but it got to be a manageable temperature in the roundhouse, eventually. Among other things, we finally cut a hole in the oil bunker for human access. And then I welded the access riser on.

A kind of dirty DSilbizzy popping out of an oil bunker in a steam locomotive tender, with the steam locomotive in the background partially disassembled.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

6th picture. That tracks. She is ferociously good and getting under our feet in the kitchen. 😂

An old (16+ year old) kitty curled up in a heated kitty bed. Her fact is tucked into her tail, and she has wedged her body into one side of the kitty bed.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Who still plays with trains? Yep. I do! Finished making a bracket for the firing g valve handle. Fly cut a surface on the angle steel, bored out a hole for the shaft, and generally made it WAAAAY fancier than it needs to be. But I like it. Nobody will ever see it, but it’s cool.

A middle aged DSilizzy standing in front of a partially disassembled steam locomotive, smiling. And wearing fancy new prescription safety glasses!

DSilbizzy in the cab of KMR 4 pointing at the oil firing quadrant. Attached to a bracket he made, that is way too fancy, but sure is cool!

The oil firing valve bracket DSilbizzy machined to make excessively pretty and closer tolerance than it really ought to be.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Another pretty fun day for me. At work, with a layover in Anchorage, so I ran up to Wasilla and put in a day of work on 557. Today I used the mill to make a throttle lock (so it can be locked closed when she it at rest), and the lathe to make a pin to hold it in place on the throttle.

DSilbizzy (me) on the left side of a steam locomotive (Alaska 557) resting a hand on the oil quadrant, while Pat Durand sits in the engineer’s seat.

The completed throttle lock block pinned in the quadrant, which holds the throttle lever in the closed position, of Alaska 557.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Who still plays with trains? Me. I do.

A smiling DSilbizzy standing in front of a partially disassembled narrow gauge locomotive.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Breaking: Middle aged man still plays with trains! Got interviewed for a short film, saw a rainbow, and finished mounting the throttle body into the steam dome.

DSilbizzy standing in front of a steam locomotive inside a stone roundhouse. The locomotive is partially disassembled as part of an extensive overhaul.

There are cameras set up, to record an interview with the guy taking a selfie.

A double rainbow over the Como turntable, a C&S boxcar in need of restoration, a P-Box, and the South Park.

Inside the boiler of KMR 4, showing a freshly mounted Throttle valve body. There are no flues in the boiler, and it is obviously under restoration.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Who was playing with trains today? Hint: it’s me! Fabricated a new throttle valve bracket (attaches to studs inside the steam dome). This weekend we should mount the throttle valve assembly. Old, gross, booger welded junk that came out of this locomotive also pictured for comparison.

A smiling DSilbizzy inside the boiler of a steam locomotive.

We spent a few hours today fabricating this bracket. It is made of 3/8” steel bent to match the curve inside the steam dome. Soon the throttle valve will bolt to it.

Here’s the crap that was in there. The welds are boogers. Lucky it didn’t break!

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Just a cool little Gentian! We saw quite a bit last week backpacking the CDT. Don’t think we saw it below 11,300’ MSL or so, but it sure was pretty!

Some Parry’s Gentian from the CDT last week.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Haha! It’s a good question. I tend to work one long trip per month, so when I’m off for a few weeks I get to play trains a lot! I also visit trains when I’m at work. I kind of bid overnights just for the trains (like these).

A smiling guy in front of an 1880 Porter Mogul in Saitama, Japan.

A masked guy in sunglasses in front of a steaming JNR locomotive in Kyoto.

A smiling Dan in front of a Chinese mikado locomotive in Guangzhou, China.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Playing with trains yet again today! New addition to Como: Board member Tom Lawson’s Plymouth critter has arrived! It’s so cute! But it will make moving rolling stock around much, much easier!

A green and yellow Plymouth diesel locomotive site in from of a steam locomotive and tender inside a stone roundhouse. A smiling guy with a safety yellow “South Park Rail” shirt is in the immediate foreground.

A green and yellow Plymouth diesel locomotive passes the “Red Hill” sign next to the in progress water tower reconstruction in Como, CO.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Haha! I appreciate that. One of these days I need to figure out a way to do more detailed steam locomotive maintenance posts. It’s interesting stuff! Speaking of which…. Still playing with trains last Saturday! Rolled her out into the sun and found out how odd mud ring stud sizes are!

A middle aged guy smiling with a “South Park Rail” safety shirt on, and small Mohawk for hair, and squinty eyes from the sun standing in front of a steam locomotive standing outside of the Como, CO roundhouse on a sunny day. The locomotive is Klondike Mines Railway 4, and she is in the middle of an extensive rebuild, so a lot of parts are not on the locomotive in the picture.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

No cheating. Post the last picture you took of your pet.

A black cat peeks out from inside a mushroom shaped kitty house.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Played with trains a lot this weekend! Boreas Pass Railroad Day was yesterday in Como. So on Friday we pulled the locomotive out of the roundhouse, and yesterday I spent all day talking to people about the locomotive and the rebuild process, even out on my South Park Rail shirt to talk to folks.

A smiling guy in front of a partially disassembled steam locomotive in the high mountain town of Como, Colorado. Wearing a black T-shirt.

A smiling guy in a safety yellow “South Park Rail” T-shirt standing in from of boxcar Colorado & Southern 8311, and coal car Colorado & Southern 4319. In front of the cars site the steam locomotive Klondike Mines Railway 4, and in front of that on the turntable is boxcar DSP&P 608. The sky is beautifully dramatic with clouds, and a blue sky behind the clouds.

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Dan Silbaugh @dsilbizzy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

#internationalcatday from George the station cat??? How about this enigma of a Dirt? They showed up at the Como Roundhouse for a marathon that was ending at the roundhouse, and escorted every runner he could across the finish line. Haven’t seen him since that weekend….

A black cat walking next to a picnic table, next to the Como Roundhouse. It was a very friendly cat, some say descended from Dirt, or the Nevada Northern (look it up!).

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