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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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