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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 Bosiboz
Yesterday 10:06 PM Go to last post
4,930 72,861
Forum dedicated to technical discussions.
Yesterday 12:27 AM Go to last post
341 4,204
Pictures of Traction Talk users engines
by 00000
27th August 2010 08:53 PM Go to last post
187 2,568
Reports on Traction Talk members projects.
Yesterday 07:48 PM Go to last post
86 2,116
Forum for our members to introduce themselves and/or post a picture.
by SDSPS
27th August 2010 08:14 PM Go to last post
245 1,448
Links to steam engine and related web sites
by Matt S
30th August 2010 02:45 PM Go to last post
50 94
Collection of members working engine pictures.
30th August 2010 09:00 PM Go to last post
360 3,017
Miniature Steam
Buying, building, and operating miniature steam engines
Yesterday 10:50 PM Go to last post
1,356 17,904
Pictures of Traction Talk members engines
by JasonB
Yesterday 07:44 PM Go to last post
53 254
Information and error reporting on the manufacturing drawings for model engines
25th August 2010 12:26 PM Go to last post
15 73
Steam Rallies
Let others know about events in your area.
615 3,691
Reports and pictures from recent Steam events
Yesterday 11:04 PM Go to last post
481 3,227
Area for members to post details of any roading that they are planning to undertake with their engine.
18th August 2010 11:40 AM Go to last post
126 581
Advertisements
Steam items and equipment For Sale.
986 1,535
Steam items and equipment Wanted.
Yesterday 05:22 PM Go to last post
785 2,327
Steam related items on eBay .
by tef 20
31st August 2010 04:42 PM Go to last post
636 1,406
Recommendations for, and requests for information about, suppliers.
1st September 2010 09:38 PM Go to last post
140 630
Resources
Area for members to post details of patterns they have and are willing to loan.
53 109
Help & Feedback
FAQ on how to do things with this message board.
13th August 2010 07:32 PM Go to last post
44 212
Suggestions, and ideas, on the setup of this board
21st April 2010 06:34 PM Go to last post
9 49
Supporters - Restricted Access For Donating Members Only
Private 10 82
Reference documents and pictures.
Private 213 367
Section for members to post their Drawings for download
Private 7 23
General Discussion Topics
Subjects that are not related to TT's standard subject matter.
Forum to discuss everything apart from Traction Engines.
Private 296 2,441
What are you interested in apart from steam?
Private 60 534
Restricted Access off topic area.
Private 1,125 2,049


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Old many years in bbs in...    03-09, 03:15  Manfred_Kreuzwirth   Aveling Baford
Old Standing in the...    02-09, 23:04  The Pirate   Show Reports
Old Nickel plating    02-09, 22:50  frequentflyer   Model Engines
Old Foden loco - See Ebay...    02-09, 22:06  Bosiboz   Discussions
Old Nutrition    02-09, 21:40  MartinP   Irreverent
Old Big One    02-09, 21:14  contractor   Irreverent
Old Confession    02-09, 21:11  contractor   Irreverent
Old Harewood    02-09, 21:11  AndyBoz   Show Reports
Old Tractor/Steam Engine...    02-09, 20:55  Ruston Boy   For-Sale Adverts
Old Gdsf pictures    02-09, 20:30  MG   Discussions
Old Dorset McLaren Special    02-09, 20:20  MG   Discussions
Old Bicker near Boston Steam...    02-09, 20:16  jameswaterfield   Steam Events
Old Boston Steam Sat Sun 4th...    02-09, 20:14  jameswaterfield   Steam Events
Old Onslow Park    02-09, 20:09  AndynMags   Discussions
Old malpas yesteryear rally...    02-09, 19:56  davidje   Steam Events
Old sentinel 8827    02-09, 19:48  buggeroff   Restoration Projects
Old Allchin royal chester    02-09, 19:44  JasonB   The Models
Old bf chalenge no 3    02-09, 19:32  marshall8hp   Discussions
Old The Archers    02-09, 19:06  Pedlers mate   Show Reports
Old Not quite on topic but...    02-09, 19:00  Pedlers mate   Discussions
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Old 6" Gold Medal Tractor...  406
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Old 4" Mac  333
Old FOWLERS vs BURRELLS  304
Old NTET and its time to...  295
Old few more funnies  277
Old Whose Engines are these?  269
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Old Fowler Roller R.I.P  32680
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Old Cheffins Sale 25th...  19406
Old Pickering - All Hell...  19373
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Old 6" Burrell DCC Road Loco...  14798
Discussions  72861
Model Engines  17904
Technical Topics  4204
Steam Events  3691
Show Reports  3227
Historic Photograph...  2743
The Engines  2568
Off Topic Discussions  2441
Wanted Adverts  2327
Restoration Projects  2116
Newest Members Top Posters Top Thanked
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6" Wallis - Colin &...  02-09
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NefOstins  31-08
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weidner  5016
8_10 Brass Cleaner  4621
Lancashire Lad  2492
Broken Firebar  2249
Rod Boesing  2080
Steam Scenes  1963
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YA1177  1607
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Rod Boesing  761
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Traction-Talk Statistics
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Threads: 13,298, Posts: 124,245, Members: 4,399, Active Members: 1,409
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