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Welcome to the new Traction Talk

Traction Talk is the Messageboard Dedicated to Road Steam Engines

If you have an interest in Traction Engines, Minature Steam, Steam Engine Rallies or anything road steam related then Traction Talk is the place for you!

You need to register with us before you can see messages or post, this is easy to do and completely free of charge - you can be up and running in minutes by following the link below:

Register for Traction Talk

What We Talk About

Traction Talk is a thriving and growing community we have around 1,000 active members and a library of over 50,000 posts featuring many hundreds of pictures. Our members come from the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, Germany, Holland and a few more besides!

We have a couple of get-together's each year with the main one being held at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in August/September.

We feature pictures and discussion on all types of engines including, General Purpose Engines, Showmans Engines, Steam Rollers, Steam Lorries and historic pictures of engines during their working life.

Miniature Steam

If you are interested in building miniature traction engines we have a thriving model forum, where you can discuss building, buying and running minature engines:

Steam Rallies

We have a regularly updated list of road steam events taking place across the world and a calendar of events.

Also throughout the summer season we have rally reports supplied by members - Traction Talk is the first place to learn about what's going on in the rally scene.

Not Just Steam

In addition we have several other forums dedicated to non-steam topics:

Items For Sale and Wanted
Jokes and Off Topic Discussions

How Traction Talk is Paid For

Traction Talk is funded entirely by it's membership. We don't feature any advertising on the site.

For those who would like to make a voluntary donation to Traction Talk funds we provide an image hosting service and several supporter only forums. Once you are registered you can find out more about donating and the benefits.

Join Us Today

If any of the above sounds like it would interest you please join us, we welcome new members and in time hope you can become a valued contributer to the Traction Talk community.

Register For Traction Talk

Should you have any issues with signing up or further questions please email me and I will do my best to help out:
David Collidge, Traction Talk Administrator - david@tractiontalkforum.com

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Steam Engine Matters
For general discussions on all things Traction Engine related.
by mac917
Today 01:40 AM Go to last post
4,059 59,343
Forum dedicated to technical discussions.
by weidner
Yesterday 11:03 PM Go to last post
245 2,992
Pictures of Traction Talk users engines
by ronj
Yesterday 04:27 PM Go to last post
168 2,250
Reports on Traction Talk members projects.
by mac957
Yesterday 09:01 PM Go to last post
67 1,500
Forum for our members to introduce themselves and/or post a picture.
Yesterday 02:43 PM Go to last post
206 1,188
Links to steam engine and related web sites
6th February 2010 08:46 PM Go to last post
31 42
Collection of members working engine pictures.
242 2,086
Miniature Steam
Buying, building, and operating miniature steam engines
by 4040
Yesterday 11:36 PM Go to last post
1,027 13,454
Pictures of Traction Talk members engines
26th January 2010 11:09 AM Go to last post
39 123
Advertisements
Steam items and equipment For Sale.
749 1,198
Steam items and equipment Wanted.
7th February 2010 10:47 PM Go to last post
625 1,806
Steam related items on eBay .
7th February 2010 09:08 PM Go to last post
503 1,126
Recommendations for, and requests for information about, suppliers.
by Dave ©
19th January 2010 08:44 AM Go to last post
113 518
Steam Rallies
Let others know about events in your area.
7th February 2010 04:19 PM Go to last post
454 2,581
Reports and pictures from recent Steam events
by Wallace
7th February 2010 09:29 PM Go to last post
352 2,248
Area for members to post details of any roading that they are planning to undertake with their engine.
by kev-zoo
Yesterday 05:11 PM Go to last post
74 350
Resources
Area for members to post details of patterns they have and are willing to loan.
by ace1
18th January 2010 03:06 PM Go to last post
44 89
Help & Feedback
FAQ on how to do things with this message board.
6th February 2010 11:33 PM Go to last post
40 193
Suggestions, and ideas, on the setup of this board
8th December 2009 08:02 PM Go to last post
8 39
Supporters - Restricted Access For Donating Members Only
Private 10 78
Reference documents and pictures.
Private 200 327
Section for members to post their Drawings for download
Private 6 21
General Discussion Topics
Subjects that are not related to TT's standard subject matter.
Forum to discuss everything apart from Traction Engines.
Private 190 1,572
What are you interested in apart from steam?
Private 50 385
Restricted Access off topic area.
Private 990 1,858


Top 10 Stats
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Old Fowler 11982    09-02, 01:40  mac917   Discussions
Old Tensile strength in...    09-02, 01:27  andrew hawkswell   Discussions
Old Rakaia Run    09-02, 01:20  mac957   Discussions
Old Valve chest covers on a...    08-02, 23:36  4040   Model Engines
Old Reeves has met the...    08-02, 23:27  Davide L   Discussions
Old Fowler Canopies -...    08-02, 23:03  weidner   Technical Topics
Old Dive on a pair of Fowler...    08-02, 22:50  aussie road loco   Discussions
Old 1890 Clark Chapman...    08-02, 22:40  Young Buster   For-Sale Adverts
Old Transport and Rally Going    08-02, 22:02  Wallace   Model Engines
Old NZ engines in the UK    08-02, 21:52  aussie road loco   Discussions
Old Boys and their Toys!    08-02, 21:48  johnnycapone   Discussions
Old 6" Little Samson...    08-02, 21:46  davek0974   Model Engines
Old 6" Gold Medal Tractor...    08-02, 21:45  Julia   Model Engines
Old 4.5in...    08-02, 21:31  johnnycapone   Model Engines
Old 3" Mclaren build    08-02, 21:22  johnnycapone   Model Engines
Old Avoid this stretch if...    08-02, 21:02  davidje   Off Topic Discussions
Old McLaren tank    08-02, 21:01  mac957   Restoration Projects
Old Garrett 4CD drawings    08-02, 20:52  Bosiboz   Technical Topics
Old FREE - - - Quadtrac band    08-02, 20:38  weidner   For-Sale Adverts
Old 2/3 Berth Caravan    08-02, 20:27  guyoxon   For-Sale Adverts
Old 3" Mclaren build  668
Old 6" Little Samson...  373
Old Fowler Roller R.I.P  296
Old NTET and its time to...  295
Old few more funnies  277
Old Whose Engines are these?  269
Old Engine Owners and C of C  267
Old 4" Mac  260
Old sentinel 8827  257
Old FOWLERS vs BURRELLS  254
Old 3" Mclaren build  29166
Old Fowler Roller R.I.P  21595
Old sentinel 8827  20679
Old 6" Little Samson...  19659
Old Pickering - All Hell...  19027
Old burrell 3385  17692
Old 6" Gold Medal Tractor...  14354
Old Whose Engines are these?  13507
Old 4" Mac  12493
Old BSEPS Rally Old Warden...  12087
Discussions  59343
Model Engines  13454
Technical Topics  2992
Steam Events  2581
The Engines  2250
Show Reports  2248
Historic Photograph...  2086
Irreverent  1858
Wanted Adverts  1806
Off Topic Discussions  1572
Newest Members Top Posters Top Thanked
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weidner  3860
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Rod Boesing  1856
Steam Scenes  1641
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Threads: 10,576, Posts: 97,773, Members: 3,656, Active Members: 1,275
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