<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Tony, <div>What a great link. Winton Brown was a mechanical engineer and genius who lived in Danville on Alamantos drive. He was a past president of Golden Gate Live Steamers . He ran a business that made 7 1/2 & 15” gauge live steam locos and parts for 1 1/2 & 3 inch scale . His locomotives were of extreme quality based on 1880’s prototypes . Many amusement parks ran them . </div><div>In 1969 when I was 13 , I asked and was given a tour of his shop . It was spell binding ! Naturally , I asked if I could work for him for the summer because I wanted to build a live steam locomotive. </div><div>I’m sure he’d heard that a thousand times from starry eyed kids so he said no, he didn’t need an apprentice and to start off building a freight car first . He was genuinely surprised when I said I had already done that and unstrapped a Bentondoff truck I had made from my bike . (I was a pretty industrious kid considering I didn’t have a dad) . Winton looked it over and although it was wood, he was very impressed and gave me quite a quiz . He still didn’t hire me though. I hired out at a cabinet shop two days later … and Winton called me back the day after that and offered me an apprenticeship with pay! </div><div>I was full of high ideals and told him I’d feel bad about quitting the cabinet shop just days after them giving me a job. … I can still hear his voice on the phone kindly but firmly asking me “young man are you sure about this, what I’m offering you is very unusual. ” I said “I guess so.” That was unquestionably the stupidest thing I have ever done or said in my entire life . </div><div>The compressor is from his 3” scale line. It was his design and offered built up or plain iron castings and drawings . His dictations on boiler size and wall thicknesses along with steam power calculations that he published as a small book are still considered gospel by the live steam guys. Mr. Winton Brown passed away in the early 90ties . That compressor would have been designed or made in the 60ties . <br>His line of locos drawings and patterns were bought by Mammoth locomotive works but I don’t know if still available. <br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 11, 2023, at 6:24 PM, Tony Long <tony.long@outlook.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Message From: Tony Long tony.long@outlook.com</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br>
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