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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 Matt S
Today 12:47 PM Go to last post
4,946 72,996
Forum dedicated to technical discussions.
Today 10:00 AM Go to last post
343 4,214
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.
by weidner
Today 09:57 AM Go to last post
87 2,119
Forum for our members to introduce themselves and/or post a picture.
by rs2000
4th September 2010 07:24 AM Go to last post
245 1,449
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.
Yesterday 08:56 PM Go to last post
361 3,020
Miniature Steam
Buying, building, and operating miniature steam engines
1,362 17,953
Pictures of Traction Talk members engines
Today 04:35 AM Go to last post
55 262
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.
4th September 2010 08:43 PM Go to last post
617 3,696
Reports and pictures from recent Steam events
by dumpy
Today 12:59 AM Go to last post
485 3,234
Area for members to post details of any roading that they are planning to undertake with their engine.
by wseward
Yesterday 04:29 PM Go to last post
127 582
Advertisements
Steam items and equipment For Sale.
988 1,537
Steam items and equipment Wanted.
786 2,334
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.
140 633
Resources
Area for members to post details of patterns they have and are willing to loan.
by wirro
28th August 2010 09:58 PM Go to last post
52 108
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 213 368
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 297 2,454
What are you interested in apart from steam?
Private 60 534
Restricted Access off topic area.
Private 1,127 2,051


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New Dorset McLaren Special    06-09, 12:47  Matt S   Discussions
New Back to work    06-09, 12:43  FTR3456   Discussions
New Sliding firedoors for 4"...    06-09, 12:31  Julia   Model Engines
New Onslow Park    06-09, 12:25  Foden NK5836   Discussions
New Beaulieu    06-09, 12:14  SDSPS   Discussions
New Gdsf pictures    06-09, 12:11  SDSPS   Discussions
Old Finger post at GDSF road...    06-09, 11:51  aligreen   Discussions
Old Brake confusion    06-09, 11:36  gmtbuilder   Model Engines
Old Dorset Thanks    06-09, 11:27  Seddon and Black   Discussions
Old Seddon and Black...    06-09, 11:24  Seddon and Black   Suppliers
Old 4" Mac    06-09, 11:12  staffordshirechina   Model Engines
Old John cook    06-09, 11:08  Thecoalman   Discussions
Old Arthur and Steve...    06-09, 10:50  8_10 Brass Cleaner   Discussions
Old Caravan spacing...    06-09, 10:22  suzukiman   Off Topic Discussions
Old bf chalenge no 3    06-09, 10:05  Broken Firebar   Discussions
Old burrell 4" single...    06-09, 10:00  rustysteel   Technical Topics
Old Fowler 4826    06-09, 09:57  weidner   Restoration Projects
Old Post GDSF -...    06-09, 09:57  Steam Scenes   Discussions
Old Gdsf 2010    06-09, 09:42  Burrell8   Model Engines
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Old FOWLERS vs BURRELLS  304
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Old few more funnies  277
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Old Cheffins Sale 25th...  19484
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Model Engines  17953
Technical Topics  4214
Steam Events  3696
Show Reports  3234
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The Engines  2568
Off Topic Discussions  2454
Wanted Adverts  2334
Restoration Projects  2119
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