Shared by Karen Kline Monroe:
Model Locomotive is Subject of Talk Before Kiwanis Club, Brookfield,Illinois, Suburban Magnet,
3 February 1944;
A model locomotive scaled down from one of the giant engines purchased by the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney railroad in 1930, was the subject of an interesting talk which was given last Wednesday evening before the members of the Brookfield Kiwanis club.
The speaker was Mel R. Kline, of 8711 Rockefeller avenue, who is an electrical engineer with the Cook County Sanitary district.
Kline and five men, all of whom have about the same mechanical turn of mind, set about to reproduce 13 of these locomotives, and although the job has required considerable time, to say nothing of patience, they have carried on in their spare time, and the models are slowly but surely taking form.
Giant blue prints of the locomotives - 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide - are invaluable in scaling down the parts of the models, for every part is being reproduced, so that when the models are completed, they will be identical with the originals.
As Kline pointed out during his talk, this scaling down process becomes something more than routine when a cylinder, and the valves made for the models actually work. The five men do the machine work and the castings are made in Milwaukee.
Three-quarters of an inch to a foot is the ratio used in scaling down the various parts for the models.
Smokie' Kline to Operate Old 97 at Chi Rail Fair," The Brookfield
(Illinois) Magnet, 23 June 1949;
M.R. (Smokie) Kline, formerly of Hollywood, will haul passengers over a 900-foot run at the Chicago Railroad fair this summer.
Kline is an electrical engineer, but at heart he is a railroader, and he plans to operate his coal-fired, one ton replica of the high speed
passenger locomotive of the '90s right around the fairgrounds.
Each of the cars of the train carries eight passengers, and the locomotive was built in the basement of the Kline home while he lived in Hollywood. The neighbors had a hand in building Old 97, and she has been all over the country.
Kline is the engineer, fireman, conductor, construction gang, president, and what-not of the one-man railroad, and he has just about as much fun operating his train as the kids do who ride on it.
His locomotive kicks out smoke [becomes illegible here] steam, and puffs and snorts [illegible] to boot as it picked up six [illegible]cars, and hauls them. [illegible]
Model Locomotive is Subject of Talk Before Kiwanis Club, Brookfield,Illinois, Suburban Magnet,
3 February 1944;
A model locomotive scaled down from one of the giant engines purchased by the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney railroad in 1930, was the subject of an interesting talk which was given last Wednesday evening before the members of the Brookfield Kiwanis club.
The speaker was Mel R. Kline, of 8711 Rockefeller avenue, who is an electrical engineer with the Cook County Sanitary district.
Kline and five men, all of whom have about the same mechanical turn of mind, set about to reproduce 13 of these locomotives, and although the job has required considerable time, to say nothing of patience, they have carried on in their spare time, and the models are slowly but surely taking form.
Giant blue prints of the locomotives - 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide - are invaluable in scaling down the parts of the models, for every part is being reproduced, so that when the models are completed, they will be identical with the originals.
As Kline pointed out during his talk, this scaling down process becomes something more than routine when a cylinder, and the valves made for the models actually work. The five men do the machine work and the castings are made in Milwaukee.
Three-quarters of an inch to a foot is the ratio used in scaling down the various parts for the models.
Smokie' Kline to Operate Old 97 at Chi Rail Fair," The Brookfield
(Illinois) Magnet, 23 June 1949;
M.R. (Smokie) Kline, formerly of Hollywood, will haul passengers over a 900-foot run at the Chicago Railroad fair this summer.
Kline is an electrical engineer, but at heart he is a railroader, and he plans to operate his coal-fired, one ton replica of the high speed
passenger locomotive of the '90s right around the fairgrounds.
Each of the cars of the train carries eight passengers, and the locomotive was built in the basement of the Kline home while he lived in Hollywood. The neighbors had a hand in building Old 97, and she has been all over the country.
Kline is the engineer, fireman, conductor, construction gang, president, and what-not of the one-man railroad, and he has just about as much fun operating his train as the kids do who ride on it.
His locomotive kicks out smoke [becomes illegible here] steam, and puffs and snorts [illegible] to boot as it picked up six [illegible]cars, and hauls them. [illegible]
Shared by Karen Kline Monroe:
Model Locomotive is Subject of Talk Before Kiwanis Club, Brookfield,Illinois, Suburban Magnet,
3 February 1944;
A model locomotive scaled down from one of the giant engines purchased by the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney railroad in 1930, was the subject of an interesting talk which was given last Wednesday evening before the members of the Brookfield Kiwanis club.
The speaker was Mel R. Kline, of 8711 Rockefeller avenue, who is an electrical engineer with the Cook County Sanitary district.
Kline and five men, all of whom have about the same mechanical turn of mind, set about to reproduce 13 of these locomotives, and although the job has required considerable time, to say nothing of patience, they have carried on in their spare time, and the models are slowly but surely taking form.
Giant blue prints of the locomotives - 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide - are invaluable in scaling down the parts of the models, for every part is being reproduced, so that when the models are completed, they will be identical with the originals.
As Kline pointed out during his talk, this scaling down process becomes something more than routine when a cylinder, and the valves made for the models actually work. The five men do the machine work and the castings are made in Milwaukee.
Three-quarters of an inch to a foot is the ratio used in scaling down the various parts for the models.
Smokie' Kline to Operate Old 97 at Chi Rail Fair," The Brookfield
(Illinois) Magnet, 23 June 1949;
M.R. (Smokie) Kline, formerly of Hollywood, will haul passengers over a 900-foot run at the Chicago Railroad fair this summer.
Kline is an electrical engineer, but at heart he is a railroader, and he plans to operate his coal-fired, one ton replica of the high speed
passenger locomotive of the '90s right around the fairgrounds.
Each of the cars of the train carries eight passengers, and the locomotive was built in the basement of the Kline home while he lived in Hollywood. The neighbors had a hand in building Old 97, and she has been all over the country.
Kline is the engineer, fireman, conductor, construction gang, president, and what-not of the one-man railroad, and he has just about as much fun operating his train as the kids do who ride on it.
His locomotive kicks out smoke [becomes illegible here] steam, and puffs and snorts [illegible] to boot as it picked up six [illegible]cars, and hauls them. [illegible]
Model Locomotive is Subject of Talk Before Kiwanis Club, Brookfield,Illinois, Suburban Magnet,
3 February 1944;
A model locomotive scaled down from one of the giant engines purchased by the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney railroad in 1930, was the subject of an interesting talk which was given last Wednesday evening before the members of the Brookfield Kiwanis club.
The speaker was Mel R. Kline, of 8711 Rockefeller avenue, who is an electrical engineer with the Cook County Sanitary district.
Kline and five men, all of whom have about the same mechanical turn of mind, set about to reproduce 13 of these locomotives, and although the job has required considerable time, to say nothing of patience, they have carried on in their spare time, and the models are slowly but surely taking form.
Giant blue prints of the locomotives - 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide - are invaluable in scaling down the parts of the models, for every part is being reproduced, so that when the models are completed, they will be identical with the originals.
As Kline pointed out during his talk, this scaling down process becomes something more than routine when a cylinder, and the valves made for the models actually work. The five men do the machine work and the castings are made in Milwaukee.
Three-quarters of an inch to a foot is the ratio used in scaling down the various parts for the models.
Smokie' Kline to Operate Old 97 at Chi Rail Fair," The Brookfield
(Illinois) Magnet, 23 June 1949;
M.R. (Smokie) Kline, formerly of Hollywood, will haul passengers over a 900-foot run at the Chicago Railroad fair this summer.
Kline is an electrical engineer, but at heart he is a railroader, and he plans to operate his coal-fired, one ton replica of the high speed
passenger locomotive of the '90s right around the fairgrounds.
Each of the cars of the train carries eight passengers, and the locomotive was built in the basement of the Kline home while he lived in Hollywood. The neighbors had a hand in building Old 97, and she has been all over the country.
Kline is the engineer, fireman, conductor, construction gang, president, and what-not of the one-man railroad, and he has just about as much fun operating his train as the kids do who ride on it.
His locomotive kicks out smoke [becomes illegible here] steam, and puffs and snorts [illegible] to boot as it picked up six [illegible]cars, and hauls them. [illegible]
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