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Re: TSRR #500 and the Texas State Railroad Project
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.general
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Fri, 5 Jan 2007 21:14:30 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ben Fleskes wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote:
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Of course credit where it’s due: my #500 uses the awesome BBB wheels, as
well as a wheel configuration suggested to me by Ben Fleskes himself.
Because Pacific types, and any other 4 wheeled pony truck locos, have a hard
time negotiating their pony truck around their own pistons, I’ve split the
pony truck in half. The rear wheels of the pony truck are fixed to the
locomotive, while the front wheels move independantly. Since there is only
one pair of flanged drivers, the locomotive rotates using the fixed pony
truck wheels. It’s a great design.
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Nice work. Looks like the suggestion worked well. The idea of combining one
axle of a leading truck into the same truck with the driving wheels has a lot
of potential for creating big steam engines. Of course, it is only possible
with blind drivers. The technique gives a lot of flexibilty that simply
wouldn’t exist otherwise.
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Thanks! There are a few quirks with the design, but they’re not hard to
overcome. With my locomotive, the center of rotation is forward of the center
of gravity, so without the rear blind drivers and the load-bearing rear truck,
the locomotive would tip backwards. Aside from that I haven’t found any flaws,
the design runs points and curves great.
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Credit goes to you for putting your model out there for people to critique
and comment on, before it is done. But then again, that’s the great thing
with LEGO, I find that very few creations are ever done, they just keep
getting better and better with each rebuild. That is one of the things that
make LEGO railroading so much better then typical ‘Model’ railroading (like
HO gage).
Cheers,
Ben Fleskes
Big Ben Bricks LLC
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Well, I don’t consider myself as experienced or talented a train builder as I do
myself a castle builder, so I’m always ready to listen to advice. I’ve not been
building trains for a full year yet.
I still have the reminents of my HO train stuff, and I agree, LEGO railroading
is so much better. A standard rail hobbyist builds a building or railcar for
his layout and he’s stuck with it. If he doesn’t like something, he’s forced to
break/cut/glue/paint it to where he likes it. Us LEGO fans just have to pop in
a new piece and we’re done. If a standard rail hobbyist doesn’t like his
building altogether, he’s got to throw it away. For us, we just turn it into
something else.
Now if I can just get my trains on one of those ‘world’s largest LEGO train
layouts’ for five minutes...
Thanks for the reply and all your help!
--Anthony
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