Bay Area Garden Railway Society Live Steam Group

Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

May 20th-22nd

Exhibit Engineering

We construct and run gauge one live steam railway locomotives. These locomotives are scale versions of actual prototype locomotives and, in some cases, are completely scratchbuilt. The engines are run on a portable track.

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Bay Area Garden Railway Live Steamers

We are a group of people belonging to the Bay Area Garden Railway Society (BAGRS) who run gauge 1 live steam locomotives. Gauge 1 refers to the distance between the rails of the track on which the loco runs - 45mm or about 1 3/4".

Categories: Engineering, Craft, Kinetic Art, Science

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