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A two truck, two cylinder,
“Class A” Shay Locomotive
My BBB&C’s locomotive number 7
More pics and videos here.
and
The First Locomotive
of the First Railroad in Texas
The 4-2-0 named the “General Sherman”
(for Texas General Sidney Sherman)
was the first locomotive of the
Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway
More pics and video here.
enjoy
kurt
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In lugnet.trains, Kurt Baty wrote:
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A two truck, two cylinder,
“Class A” Shay Locomotive
My BBB&C’s locomotive number 7
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I should say that I built this MOC in response an article called “SELECTIVE
COMPRESSION APPLIED TO MECHANICAL DETAILS” by Steve Barile in
RAILBRICKS issue 3 on page 34-35
where it says:
“The Shay does not have traditional steam driver wheels but instead only front
and rear two axle trucks. What is tricky about modeling the Shay is the
rotating, bending, and changing length of the drive shaft, while maintaining a
90° crown gear connection to each axle as well as a connection to the vertical
piston rods. It barely makes mechanical sense while studying the real engine.
Trying to achieve this in a six wide (even eight wide) train with a pure LEGO
solution seems to be impossible (ha, a challenge!).”
I hope my 8-wide MOC answers this challenge!
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In lugnet.trains, Kurt Baty wrote:
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I should say that I built this MOC in response an article called “SELECTIVE
COMPRESSION APPLIED TO MECHANICAL DETAILS” by Steve Barile in
RAILBRICKS issue 3 on page 34-35
where it says:
“The Shay does not have traditional steam driver wheels but instead only
front and rear two axle trucks. What is tricky about modeling the Shay is the
rotating, bending, and changing length of the drive shaft, while maintaining
a 90° crown gear connection to each axle as well as a connection to the
vertical piston rods. It barely makes mechanical sense while studying the
real engine. Trying to achieve this in a six wide (even eight wide) train
with a pure LEGO solution seems to be impossible (ha, a challenge!).”
I hope my 8-wide MOC answers this challenge!
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Kurt, this is a superb MOC! Well done! I especially appreciate its 8widyness and
the vids of it in action! Bravo!
JOHN
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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Kurt, this is a superb MOC! Well done! I especially appreciate its 8widyness
and the vids of it in action! Bravo!
JOHN
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Thanks John!
I am very glad someone liked it!!
I posted my first train MOC here http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=30955
and no one liked it (well, not enough to post a reply).
So these are my first two locomotive MOCs.
so except for you...
thanks again
kurt
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In lugnet.trains, Kurt Baty wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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Kurt, this is a superb MOC! Well done! I especially appreciate its 8widyness
and the vids of it in action! Bravo!
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I am very glad someone liked it!!
I posted my first train MOC here http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=30955
and no one liked it (well, not enough to post a reply).
So these are my first two locomotive MOCs.
so except for you...
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Whoa, Kurt! Don’t suppose for 1 second that nobody likes something you’ve posted
because they didn’t respond! Things have changed since the early days of LUGNET
10 years ago, when people were very chatty and comments flourished. LUGNET has
become old hat as it were; people are chatting it up in different LEGO forums
now-- forums that didn’t exist 10 years ago.
But now that the LEGO train community has proliferated so much to the extent
that lugnet.trains is a ghost forum, I think that it is time to revive this old
and familiar forum, bringing it back to its former glory. And, in doing so,
maybe the LEGO train community will come back together again.
So I’m starting to do my part:-)
And BTW, I like your other MOC as well.
TRAINSTRAINSTRAINS
JOHN
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In lugnet.trains, Kurt Baty wrote:
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A two truck, two cylinder,
“Class A” Shay Locomotive
My BBB&C’s locomotive number 7
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More pics and videos here.
and
The First Locomotive
of the First Railroad in Texas
The 4-2-0 named the “General Sherman”
(for Texas General Sidney Sherman)
was the first locomotive of the
Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway
More pics and video here.
enjoy
kurt
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Hi Kurt,
Great work on making a small working Shay. Very impressive engineering
achievment. The models themselves pack in a lot of details too making them look
as good as they work.
One suggestion to invite people to look/comment on your model is to take better
photos. Your current photos make it very difficult to actually see the train and
thus difficult/unappealling to comment on. There’s various threads out there
discussing it and a search on ‘photographing lego’ should yield a wealth of
information.
Tim
PS. I’m writing this on Lugnet to be retro. There’s still a lot of discussion on
LEGO trains but Flickr has a lot of experienced train builders (and
inexperienced) and Eurobricks has a lot of people in their trains forum.
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Hi Kurt,
Great work on making a small working Shay. Very impressive engineering
achievment. The models themselves pack in a lot of details too making them
look as good as they work.
One suggestion to invite people to look/comment on your model is to take
better photos. Your current photos make it very difficult to actually see the
train and thus difficult/unappealling to comment on. There’s various threads
out there discussing it and a search on ‘photographing lego’ should yield a
wealth of information.
Tim
PS. I’m writing this on Lugnet to be retro. There’s still a lot of discussion
on LEGO trains but Flickr has a lot of experienced train builders (and
inexperienced) and Eurobricks has a lot of people in their trains forum.
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Thanks for the feedback Tim!
I am glad you liked the MOC!
I should have posted pics like these here?
I have only linked to “thumbnails” for posts here,
I got flack years ago for too large pics, maybe those days are over.
Also I have found that shooting black LEGO is hard (for me at least)
and I run photos through picture-it to touch-up their contrast.
I should make a better photo shooting setup... sometime.
Anyway food for thought!
thanks
kurt
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In lugnet.trains, Kurt Baty wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Hi Kurt,
Great work on making a small working Shay. Very impressive engineering
achievment. The models themselves pack in a lot of details too making them
look as good as they work.
One suggestion to invite people to look/comment on your model is to take
better photos. Your current photos make it very difficult to actually see
the train and thus difficult/unappealling to comment on. There’s various
threads out there discussing it and a search on ‘photographing lego’ should
yield a wealth of information.
Tim
PS. I’m writing this on Lugnet to be retro. There’s still a lot of
discussion on LEGO trains but Flickr has a lot of experienced train builders
(and inexperienced) and Eurobricks has a lot of people in their trains
forum.
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Thanks for the feedback Tim!
I am glad you liked the MOC!
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I should have posted pics like these here?
I have only linked to “thumbnails” for posts here,
I got flack years ago for too large pics, maybe those days are over.
Also I have found that shooting black LEGO is hard (for me at least)
and I run photos through picture-it to touch-up their contrast.
I should make a better photo shooting setup... sometime.
Anyway food for thought!
thanks
kurt
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I more mean that your ‘invitation’ shot (like you posted) needs to be a lot
clearer. The modern internet user is a lazy beast and easily distracted so
giving a nice clear picture for them to immediately grasp is one way of ensuring
that their attention is held.
Shooting black is hard. If you invest in a large piece of white cardboard (a
light grey could be even better) you will end up with significantly clearer
pictures.
That is taken with a cheap camera in sub-tropical daylight with no props other
than the piece of card. You also need to make sure that you have your camera
settings right.
Sorry for the lecture but I feel it’s a shame when good models are presented in
a way that makes them less inviting. An extra half hour or so at the end if the
build can make a huge difference to the attention, and this model deserves
attention.
Tim
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Kurt Baty wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Hi Kurt,
Great work on making a small working Shay. Very impressive engineering
achievment. The models themselves pack in a lot of details too making them
look as good as they work.
One suggestion to invite people to look/comment on your model is to take
better photos. Your current photos make it very difficult to actually see
the train and thus difficult/unappealling to comment on. There’s various
threads out there discussing it and a search on ‘photographing lego’ should
yield a wealth of information.
Tim
PS. I’m writing this on Lugnet to be retro. There’s still a lot of
discussion on LEGO trains but Flickr has a lot of experienced train
builders (and inexperienced) and Eurobricks has a lot of people in their
trains forum.
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Thanks for the feedback Tim!
I am glad you liked the MOC!
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<< SNIP >>
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I should have posted pics like these here?
I have only linked to “thumbnails” for posts here,
I got flack years ago for too large pics, maybe those days are over.
Also I have found that shooting black LEGO is hard (for me at least)
and I run photos through picture-it to touch-up their contrast.
I should make a better photo shooting setup... sometime.
Anyway food for thought!
thanks
kurt
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I more mean that your ‘invitation’ shot (like you posted) needs to be a lot
clearer. The modern internet user is a lazy beast and easily distracted so
giving a nice clear picture for them to immediately grasp is one way of
ensuring that their attention is held.
Shooting black is hard. If you invest in a large piece of white cardboard (a
light grey could be even better) you will end up with significantly clearer
pictures.
That is taken with a cheap camera in sub-tropical daylight with no props
other than the piece of card. You also need to make sure that you have your
camera settings right.
Sorry for the lecture but I feel it’s a shame when good models are presented
in a way that makes them less inviting. An extra half hour or so at the end
if the build can make a huge difference to the attention, and this model
deserves attention.
Tim
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Just to add to the discussion, I find that if your camera supports it, long
exposures can really make taking pictures of a primarily black MOC much easier.
Regardless, the more light the better. Not only do white backdrops help clean
up the background of the image, they also reflect light onto the subject and
help create more ambient light. Shooting outside but in the shade can also help
reduce glare and excessive contrast.
--Tony
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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PS. I’m writing this on Lugnet to be retro. There’s still a lot of discussion
on LEGO trains but Flickr has a lot of experienced train builders (and
inexperienced) and Eurobricks has a lot of people in their trains forum.
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Curse you, evil Timmy (and your nefarious sidekick Timmy, too!) for calling
those who continue to choose to post on LUGNET dinosaurs!! I deeply resemble
that remark! 
That is what you meant, right?
JOHN
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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PS. I’m writing this on Lugnet to be retro. There’s still a lot of
discussion on LEGO trains but Flickr has a lot of experienced train builders
(and inexperienced) and Eurobricks has a lot of people in their trains
forum.
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Curse you, evil Timmy (and your nefarious sidekick Timmy, too!) for calling
those who continue to choose to post on LUGNET dinosaurs!! I deeply
resemble that remark!
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I’ve probably posted here more recently than you ;)
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That is what you meant, right?
JOHN
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But of course.
I’ve been almost tempted to post a few of my latest trains here (especially the
CAD ones for old times sake) but I wasn’t sure if there was anyone still reading
.trains.
Tim
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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I’ve been almost tempted to post a few of my latest trains here (especially
the CAD ones for old times sake) but I wasn’t sure if there was anyone still
reading .trains.
Tim
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Oh yeah, there are folks still lurking about over here. I’ll occasionally glance
at those fancy new “forums”, but there are way too many to keep track of. I
depend on the RailBricks bloggers to point me to the best that’s out there that
hasn’t shown up here.
Benn
PS, and now that John is back in town, I’m sure this forum will crackle to life.
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In lugnet.trains, Benn Coifman wrote:
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PS, and now that John is back in town, I’m sure this forum will crackle to
life.
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LOL It takes a village, Benn! It would be great to have the Old-Timers back and
chatting again!
JOHN
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