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Pics: 0-6-0 Steam Engine
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Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:10:49 GMT
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My 12 year old son presented me with this loco for Christmas (which he secretly
built)-- I was, to say the least, quite impressed with it! Here is how he
describes it:
It is an 8 wide engine with a 5 wide boiler, with the six drivers powered by a 9
volt motor. He began with unpowered drivers, but found that the engine derailed
from the 9 volt train motor in the tender pushing too much. Then he tried
powering the drivers from a train motor, but found that the train motor once
again pushed too hard, so he finally ended up powering the motor with a battery
pack. The battery-powered motor running the drivers provides just enough forward
momentum to keep the train from derailing. He added another 9 volt train motor
to the tender for added traction.
What I find interesting about his design is that, basically, he has reproduced
the motive power configuration for a typical model railroad engine. The only
difference is that the motor is picking up power from a battery hidden in the
tender rather than from the rails.
The power for the motor is controlled from the stack, as shown in the last pic.
The pics are here, including one from a schematic he used to build it:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7051
Hope you are as impressed as I was:-)
-John
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Message has 10 Replies:
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| In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes: (snip) (...) Oh yeah! Congratulations to your son, he is a very good builder. Hope to see more of his stuff in the future! Pedro (22 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| WOW! I love how its powered (Chain drive...)! Did you notice missing parts!? Or are they his Personal parts? I think I'll hide my 4-4-0 American longer... Gotta catch some of that detail. Just wish those 9v motors came in red. Anyways, GREAT job! (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) My goodness that is an AMAZING present. I LOVE that engine. It REALLY looks good. It looks so AMERICAN. Excuse my foaming but wow. That is really GREAT. It REALLY raises the bar of small american steamers. (...) Um... I dunno, what do you (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| I'm really quite impressed with this. Now, if it were a 0-8-0, it would probably look more like a "real" loco than my Caribou that is downstairs! Please congratulate your son for the good work. (Caribou is a 0-8-0 3.5" gauge live steam engine-I joke (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| Wow, what a wonderful work! You must be a proud ol'man to have a son with that much talent. That's as good if not better than many AFOL train MOCs. BTW: How come none of us ever built a chain driven train before, or used a combo driver wheels (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| John wrote in message ... (...) secretly (...) Wow, John! That's one excellent engine! Congrats to your son! I have a question - I used that combo of pulley wheels with a tire on the rear one on a loco I built several years ago (URL) at the time I (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| Mighty impressed, congratulations are due. I think i may have to steal that idea for my future narrow gauge tank locos! (built to technic fig scale), at the moment I have been limited to locos with a four wheeled bogie (truck) at the front or back. (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) One question- do those wheels manage all track configs? Or does it have problems with switches or crossings? -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Yes! That is one SWEET loco. My kids are both much younger than yours, but I can only hope they enjoy building with Lego as much as your son does. It's obvious from the effort he put into it that he loves Lego and loves you. You must be one (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) John, Your son did an amazing job with this engine. I wish I could build this well. Just to clarify, when you say he tried powering the drivers from the train motor this means that he had a 9volt (technic style) motor attached to the accessory (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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