I have been interested in steam all my life. I started driving my Dad’s Aveling steam roller when I was 18 months old, but today I’ll be talking about model steam engines that are like the full sized ones, but smaller. I’ve been collecting these models since I was 2 years of age, when I was given my brass Wilesco roller by my Dad that was not running at the time. When I was 10 years old I bought all the parts for it and repaired it, it now runs beautifully. 

In 2007, I got my green Wilesco roller; this was when I seriously started c