 | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | (...) It is very workable... I can't rattle off the URLs but I think several US prototype 6 axle locos have been done that use this sliding center wheel idea on their dummy trucks. Christopher Tracey??? Tom Cook? Not sure who. But it's in this group (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Reinhard "Ben" Beneke
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| | | | | (...) For e.g. the German 8-wide HoMa has done it: (URL) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | | | | (...) But I suspect that, given the height to the studs on top of the wheelblocks, these bogeys are taller than normal. Either that, or they don't pivot anywhere over the centre wheel. Not that either of these is a major problem. Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) (URL) the same DESERT EXPRESS project) STILL is something to stare at for long periods and get ideas from, even after some time has went by (was this 1999 or 2000 or earlier this year that this burst upon the scene, I forget...) If you like (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Reinhard "Ben" Beneke
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| | | | | | | (...) It is now nearly 1 year old: it has been published first in late 2000 and displayed then first time to the public at our christmas-train meeting in the airport of Braunschweig: (URL) this picture the train is set to the track (Homa is the man (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Holger Matthes
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| | | | | | (...) hi Larry, nice to read, that the Desert Express still is in mind of some AFOLs on the web. I build the loco as close to the real picture which is also in the gallery. I have no idea, if it's an american loco. The Desert Express operates in (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) They probably almost certainly did not build them. Building diesels is non trivial. That loco just LOOKS North American to me, it well could be an export model. I want to say it looked Alcoish but I could be wrong. (...) And a great first (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Holger Matthes
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| | | | | | (...) All inclusive: flight, Hotel and of course the trip on the real Desert Express. (...) I contacted them after reading about the DX for the first time in the newspaper (Aug. 2000) and I asked for some colored pictures, because there was just an (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Brickish Railways newcomer —Christopher Masi
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| | | | (...) I did a sliding center wheel set for a dummy SD locomotive, and a pivoting end wheel set for a powered SD locomotive (URL) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.trains)
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