{"id":471,"date":"2016-01-03T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2016-04-18T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:00:10","slug":"thinking-about-live-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/03\/thinking-about-live-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about live steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking into live steam, having had my interest piqued by some posts on forums I&#8217;m reading. One possible choice for a first live steam loco would be the Roundhouse Billy as seen here;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-472\" src=\"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/roundhouse-billy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"roundhouse-billy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/roundhouse-billy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danzbb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/roundhouse-billy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danzbb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/roundhouse-billy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danzbb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/roundhouse-billy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Apparently it is very reliable, easy to learn on and run, and Roundhouse are known for their quality locomotives.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, two things are holding me back&#8211;the scale (it&#8217;s 1:19, much larger than the 1:22.5 G Scale I&#8217;m currently running) and cost. The loco pictured above is currently listed for $1800 on eBay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking into live steam, having had my interest piqued by some posts on forums I&#8217;m reading. One possible choice for a first live steam loco would be the Roundhouse Billy as seen here;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danzbb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}