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Re: Pics: 0-6-0 Steam Engine
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Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:11:08 GMT
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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 -----
From: "Steve Barile" <steve.e.barile@intel.com>
To: <lugnet.trains@lugnet.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: Pics: 0-6-0 Steam Engine
> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The power for the motor is controlled from the stack, as shown in the • last pic.
> >
> > The pics are here, including one from a schematic he used to build it:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7051
> >
> > Hope you are as impressed as I was:-)
> >
> > -John
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