Saturated Steam

History

GWRDriver posts:

Years ago, a company called Small Parts had an employee named Leo LaFond who was interested in live steam and model engineering. He talked the owner into entering that market and started Saturated Steam. Things went well, they mostly had run of the mill stuff, Stuart castings, Fyne Fort Fittings, and the other usual stuff, but they made a contact in England and produced designs and castings for at least three really superb projects, the 1.5" scale PRR E-6 Atlantic, and the Tangye Mill engine in two scales. Two things happened to upset the apple cart, first there was a falling out of some kind between their UK contact and their source for lost wax iron castings for the E6 and Tangye engines disappeared, and not too long afterward Leo passed away. Since there was no one else in the organization who knew the live steam business they closed it down. This has been before 1991 so I would doubt that any of the stock remains. I was once in Miami and stopped in to see Leo but he was out and not another single soul knew a thing about the "steam engine stuff". There was no Saturated Steam "store", no showroom, no office, just shelf space in the back of the Small Parts warehouse.

Pennsy E6 Atlantic

Drawings for the Saturated Steam Pennsylvania E6 Atlantic were printed over several years in Modeltec magazine. Here is a complete list of issues that contained the drawings.

• Oct 1987 p10–14
• Nov 1987 p42–51
• Dec 1987 p48–55
• Jan 1988 p26–32
• Feb 1988 p35–39
• Mar 1988 p11–15
• Apr 1988 p19–27
• May 1988 p44–48
• Jun 1988 p32–37
• Jul 1988 p29–33
• Aug 1988 p51–54
• Sep 1988 p32-35
• Oct 1988 p43–47
• Nov 1988 p49–53
• Dec 1988 p26–32
• Jan 1989 p35–37
• Feb 1989 p34–35
• Mar 1989 p44–50
• Apr 1989 p35–38
• May 1989 p19–22
• Jun 1989 p27–29
• Jul 1989 p31–34
• Aug 1989 p22–26
• Sep 1989 p25–28
• Oct 1989 p14–17
• Nov 1989 p44–47
• Dec 1989 p34–37
• Jan 1990 p23–25
• Feb 1990 p34–37

External Links

• The former official website for Small Parts, now redirects to Amazon.com