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Re: Pics: 0-6-0 Steam Engine
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Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:36:16 GMT
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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 flange/sleeper (are those called sleepers, the wheels
with no flange?). Gotta depend on the young'ins to get out of the box!
SteveB
In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The power for the motor is controlled from the stack, as shown in the last pic.
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> The pics are here, including one from a schematic he used to build it:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7051
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> Hope you are as impressed as I was:-)
>
> -John
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| Could someone please unsubscribe me - I am really tired of not being able to do so from the web pages - And Dan Bodger has supposed tried twice now to remove me. PS Someone needs to look at your servers thanks Steve C. ----- Original Message ----- (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Pics: 0-6-0 Steam Engine
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| (...) No, sleepers are European for ties. Flangless drivers are called "blind" drivers (since they can't "see" where they are going and depend on other drivers to lead them aright), at least in US practice. (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Pics: 0-6-0 Steam Engine
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| (...) Yes, I am (except for the ol' part;-) That's as good if not better than many AFOL train MOCs. (...) No kidding. Sometimes he blows my mind. His last project was a working Gumball machine (using LEGO soccer balls), which utilized the Mindstorms (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Pics: 0-6-0 Steam Engine
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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