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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

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Steam Engine Matters
For general discussions on all things Traction Engine related.
by RWHB1
Yesterday 08:00 PM Go to last post
15,826 233,129
Forum dedicated to technical discussions.
by RWHB1
Yesterday 07:53 PM Go to last post
2,236 24,577
Information and photographs about engines that members own, have owned or crew on.
8th February 2025 09:23 PM Go to last post
363 5,274
Reports on Traction Talk members projects.
by RWHB1
4th March 2025 09:36 AM Go to last post
269 10,855
For recording change of owners
by UJ2225
11th November 2024 02:38 PM Go to last post
2 9
Forum for our members to introduce themselves and/or post a picture.
6th February 2025 05:10 PM Go to last post
584 3,242
Related to steam on the road.
21st February 2025 07:27 AM Go to last post
19 73
Collection of members working engine pictures.
2,732 19,714
Discussions relating to the National Traction Engine Trust.
by NTET
2nd January 2025 06:55 PM Go to last post
133 1,392
Links to steam engine and related web sites
Sub-Forums: YouTube Videos
2nd December 2024 09:17 PM Go to last post
317 1,156
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
Yesterday 09:03 PM Go to last post
4,232 60,263
Pictures of Traction Talk members engines
13th March 2025 09:22 AM Go to last post
196 3,120
Information and error reporting on the manufacturing drawings for model engines
by iain
19th October 2024 12:13 PM Go to last post
89 628
Steam Rallies
Let others know about events in your area.
by RWHB1
Yesterday 07:34 PM Go to last post
2,537 13,144
Reports and pictures from recent Steam events
28th March 2025 07:41 PM Go to last post
2,614 15,113
Area for members to post details of any roading that they are planning to undertake with their engine.
by RWHB1
16th March 2025 07:24 AM Go to last post
721 3,763
Advertisements
Steam items and equipment For Sale.
Yesterday 09:21 AM Go to last post
6,272 10,795
Steam items and equipment Wanted.
by jmayna
Yesterday 11:19 AM Go to last post
3,748 12,278
Steam related items on eBay .
29th March 2025 07:57 PM Go to last post
2,347 5,312
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.
7th March 2025 11:17 PM Go to last post
87 486
Suggestions, and ideas, on the setup of this board
9th March 2025 09:02 PM Go to last post
29 244
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 2,185 20,700
What are you interested in apart from steam?
Private 196 1,894
Restricted Access off topic area.
Private 1,663 2,857


Top 10 Stats
Latest Posts Hottest Threads Most Viewed Threads Most Popular Forums
Thread    Date, Time  Posted By   Forum
Old Portable with flywheel...    02-04, 00:11  Singlecrank   Historic Photograph...
Old Another 6" Savage,...    01-04, 21:03  stovepipe   Model Engines
Old The late Peter...    01-04, 20:00  RWHB1   Discussions
Old Restoring a Pressure...    01-04, 19:53  RWHB1   Technical Topics
Old Same engine direct...    01-04, 19:51  RWHB1   Historic Photograph...
Old RAF Wittering steam...    01-04, 19:49  RWHB1   Discussions
Old Shanes castle may day...    01-04, 19:34  RWHB1   Steam Events
Old FE559 Bowman of York...    01-04, 11:47  Snail Trail   Historic Photograph...
Old Small Riveted Water Tank    01-04, 11:19  jmayna   Wanted Adverts
Old FREE Magazines    01-04, 09:21  Arfursteam   For-Sale Adverts
Old when did you first drive...    01-04, 08:15  Steamhead21   Discussions
Old Antigua, Guatemala...    01-04, 07:37  C.M.FANCE   Discussions
Old Spectacular steam rally...    01-04, 06:18  RWHB1   Steam Events
Old Garrett Showmans Tractor...    01-04, 05:33  RWHB1   Historic Photograph...
Old Traction engine in...    30-03, 21:01  dave85   Historic Photograph...
Old Wonderful roller gang...    30-03, 11:33  tenor   Historic Photograph...
Old Wonderful roller gang...    30-03, 04:05  C.M.FANCE   Historic Photograph...
Old Burrell catalogues for...    29-03, 19:57  The Idle Fellow   eBay
Old Some more random pics    29-03, 10:21  RWHB1   Historic Photograph...
Old NTET raffled engine    29-03, 07:57  Simplex   Discussions
Old Then and Now  2153
Old burrell 3385  1372
Old 6" Gold Medal Tractor...  1183
Old 3" Mclaren build  1129
Old Burrell 4" SCC Build...  761
Old 6" Burrell DCC Road Loco...  692
Old fowler road loco 8669...  689
Old Happy New Year at...  683
Old Transportation  618
Old 6" Little Samson...  615
Old Welland Steam Rally 2013  18642698
Old Cromford 2013 Saturday  3608350
Old South Cerney Saturday  2044510
Old Herts Steam and Country...  592953
Old NTET Road Run - 27...  592322
Old What Kills Rallies?  364662
Old Welland Steam & Country...  346577
Old Bristol Model Exb  335800
Old Then and Now  334822
Old Lister CS6/1 wanted  326829
Discussions  231084
Model Engines  60263
Technical Topics  24577
Off Topic Discussions  20700
Historic Photograph...  16566
Show Reports  15113
Steam Events  13144
Wanted Adverts  12278
Restoration Projects  10855
For-Sale Adverts  10795
Top Thread Starters Top Posters Top Thanked
RWHB1  1554
Steam Scenes  880
Rod Boesing  795
davidje  735
Bosiboz  619
Steamhead21  531
carl_byrne  496
buzzy bee  478
SDSPS  468
MartinP  458
weidner  16658
8_10 Brass Cleaner  15117
00000  6204
Broken Firebar  4914
the highwayman  4879
Steam Scenes  4857
Bosiboz  4853
Steamcar  4653
buzzy bee  4551
Rod Boesing  4491
Steam Scenes  22358
Bosiboz  20008
8_10 Brass Cleaner  12615
weidner  8847
davidje  8538
SDSPS  7741
Arfursteam  7520
Steamcar  7125
Rod Boesing  6416
martin hunt  6332

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Threads: 50,667, Posts: 454,831, Members: 11,955, Active Members: 697
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