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Re: A4 Class Locomotive teaser & Wheel count designations
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Wed, 26 May 1999 22:59:18 GMT
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Doug Glasnapp wrote:
> Also, about the wheel count designations, I saw someone counting the
> number of axles to designate the loco(2-3-1 if you counted this loco
> that way) and i am used to the counting of the actual wheels to
> designate things(such as 4-6-2). I do get my ideas from European model
> catalogs and they count the wheels. Is counitng axles the American
> way? or is there any standard way for the world?
Well it's correct for steam locomotives and shunters (switchers)
(counting the wheels) but there is a newer system for diesel and
electric locomotives:
Powered Axles are given letters A=1, B=2, etc.
Unpowered axles are given numbers for each axle.
For example the power car on the Metroliner would be 2-B or it could be
2-Bo - the 'o' stands for some sort of linking I forget what.
Most common designations are Bo-Bo, Co-Co, then the stranger ones,
1-Co-Co-1 and 1-A-1 1-A-1
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 | | Re: A4 Class Locomotive teaser & Wheel count designations
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| US does not use the "o" part. There was a long thread on this in RTL I think, where I pontificated at length. Some US examples: A (GM) DD40AX is a D-D (hence the model designation) 2 trucks, 4 axles each. I think the trucks have steerable outer (...) (27 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: A4 Class Locomotive teaser & Wheel count designations
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| (...) It actually depends on the country as to what system is used. Germany used a number-letter-number designation for steam engines (2-c-1 would be a 4-6-2). The US tends towards using a name for them (a Pacific) the UK uses (4-6-2 or Pacific) And (...) (27 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | A4 Class Locomotive teaser & Wheel count designations
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| I have completed my first atempt at creating the British A4 Loco. It's the streamlined A4 class british loco steam 4-6-2. I have the pictures developed, and my the redesign of my site is almost complete. Once i get the pics scanned, i will finish (...) (27 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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