MODEL TRACTION ENGINES
Model of Avery Traction engine, 40 hp, cut and built to one inch scale. Drive wheels are cut to scale in width and height with gears cut and bolted to driver. Boilers on these engines are built to specifications excepting there are no flues. Fire-doors and water gauges are complete, also steam gauges and injector with tubing into and from boiler. Reverse and steam throttle are complete. Whistle and safety valve are on dome in the original place. Governor stream line to cylinder and main valve back of Governor are complete in every detail. All parts are cut and painted two and sometimes three coats before assembling.
Case 22-65 Model built 1 inch scale from wood, weight 8 lb., overall length 20 inches, width 10 inches. Height, 13 inches.
Avery and Case model weigh about eight to ten pounds.
Avery Traction Engine Model, 40 hp, being assembled by Ray E. Baer in his home workshop. All parts were cut to one inch scale and painted before assembling.
These models require about 300 hours to make. They are not working models but look very real and are so accurately assembled that all parts move. No glue is used, but small bolts and screws. Avery is 22" long, 11" wide and 13" high.
One Avery, two Hubers, two Case and one Twentieth Century Model Engines shown at National Threshers Assoc, Montpelier, Ohio. Models are built on a one inch scale and made of wood by Ray.
Besides this hobby, Ray also tends his flowers and lawn and directs a church choir of 35 adult voices.