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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 by it's membership.

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

  Forum Last Post Threads Posts
Steam Engine Matters
For general discussions on all things Traction Engine related.
15,740 232,175
Forum dedicated to technical discussions.
2,217 24,419
Information and photographs about engines that members own, have owned or crew on.
by No.41
13th August 2024 06:40 AM Go to last post
360 5,256
Reports on Traction Talk members projects.
by hedge
Yesterday 07:26 PM Go to last post
268 10,838
For recording change of owners
27th September 2024 12:37 PM Go to last post
1 2
Forum for our members to introduce themselves and/or post a picture.
23rd January 2024 08:57 PM Go to last post
584 3,239
Related to steam on the road.
Yesterday 07:03 PM Go to last post
12 45
Collection of members working engine pictures.
8th October 2024 07:22 AM Go to last post
2,636 19,190
Discussions relating to the National Traction Engine Trust.
24th August 2023 10:53 PM Go to last post
130 1,376
Links to steam engine and related web sites
Sub-Forums: YouTube Videos
by werner
30th September 2024 04:25 PM Go to last post
316 1,155
Need something moving? Maybe a TT member will be able to help.
10th August 2023 07:06 PM Go to last post
158 347
Miniature Steam
Buying, building, and operating miniature steam engines
by tenor
Yesterday 11:34 AM Go to last post
4,217 59,898
Pictures of Traction Talk members engines
6th October 2024 03:04 PM Go to last post
195 3,088
Information and error reporting on the manufacturing drawings for model engines
by tenor
11th February 2024 11:40 AM Go to last post
89 622
Steam Rallies
Let others know about events in your area.
2nd October 2024 05:01 PM Go to last post
2,511 13,117
Reports and pictures from recent Steam events
by tenor
Yesterday 11:45 AM Go to last post
2,608 15,091
Area for members to post details of any roading that they are planning to undertake with their engine.
by Proff
30th July 2024 01:17 PM Go to last post
710 3,745
Advertisements
Steam items and equipment For Sale.
Yesterday 11:04 PM Go to last post
6,210 10,676
Steam items and equipment Wanted.
by SimonT
9th October 2024 03:49 PM Go to last post
3,730 12,215
Steam related items on eBay .
by No.41
Yesterday 10:12 AM Go to last post
2,332 5,285
Recommendations for, and requests for information about, suppliers.
10th August 2024 08:17 AM Go to last post
403 1,778
Resources
Area for members to post details of patterns they have and are willing to loan.
Sub-Forums: Wanted
by tenor
30th August 2024 11:55 AM Go to last post
136 361
Help & Feedback
FAQ on how to do things with this message board.
by Allbo
3rd April 2024 01:41 PM Go to last post
86 462
Suggestions, and ideas, on the setup of this board
17th September 2024 06:45 PM Go to last post
29 232
A forum for contributors to leave a message with the contribution.
by J5TPT
15th January 2023 07:03 PM Go to last post
2 14
Supporters - Restricted Access For Donating Members Only
Private 16 171
Reference documents and pictures.
Private 269 539
Section for members to post their Drawings for download
Private 24 72
General Discussion Topics
Subjects that are not related to TT's standard subject matter.
Forum to discuss everything apart from Traction Engines.
Private 2,166 20,586
What are you interested in apart from steam?
Private 196 1,894
Restricted Access off topic area.
Private 1,662 2,856


Top 10 Stats
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Old And now from...    14-10, 23:45  carl_byrne   Discussions
Old Scarifier    14-10, 23:04  craigctt   For-Sale Adverts
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Old fowler road loco 8669...    14-10, 19:26  hedge   Restoration Projects
Old DOY cutting.    14-10, 19:03  carl_byrne   Historical reports and...
Old Model engine wanted    14-10, 18:00  mclaren   Discussions
Old Sad news -Mamod the...    14-10, 17:12  Steamhead21   Discussions
Old Rivet temperature -...    14-10, 13:19  carl_byrne   Technical Topics
Old Sentinel S67 at Stotfold...    14-10, 11:45  tenor   Show Reports
Old Moving from full size to...    14-10, 11:34  tenor   Model Engines
Old Burrell valve timing    14-10, 11:24  tenor   Model Engines
Old Painting inside of water...    14-10, 10:20  HeritageSteam   Technical Topics
Old Auction Catalogue 1982...    14-10, 10:12  No.41   eBay
Old Too much poor advice. !    14-10, 09:43  Steamcar   Model Engines
Old Chimney Top    13-10, 19:38  craigctt   For-Sale Adverts
Old 'Passing on' engines.    13-10, 17:24  Earl Kitchener   Discussions
Old 6 ins scale 3 ton Burrell    13-10, 12:07  The Idle Fellow   For-Sale Adverts
Old Original Steam Roller...    13-10, 07:26  No.41   eBay
Old 6inch engines    12-10, 18:43  Stevesheds   Model Engines
Old Why did some engines...    12-10, 14:43  dave85   Discussions
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Discussions  230131
Model Engines  59898
Technical Topics  24419
Off Topic Discussions  20586
Historic Photograph...  16116
Show Reports  15091
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Wanted Adverts  12215
Restoration Projects  10838
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carl_byrne  477
SDSPS  468
MartinP  458
weidner  16514
8_10 Brass Cleaner  15027
00000  6204
Broken Firebar  4910
Steam Scenes  4857
Bosiboz  4852
the highwayman  4806
Steamcar  4584
buzzy bee  4551
Rod Boesing  4481
Steam Scenes  22358
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8_10 Brass Cleaner  12615
weidner  8847
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SDSPS  7741
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Steamcar  7125
Rod Boesing  6416
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Threads: 50,275, Posts: 452,275, Members: 11,900, Active Members: 791
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