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Re: Waterspout for steamtrains
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:42:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Frank Buiting writes:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=22766
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> Decidedly european, but nifty (double articulation/swivel points on the
> spout are not common IS practice IIRC (1), it was usually just a swivel(2)
> (if a standpipe) or a boom dropping down from the side of the water tank )
I have a few pictures in books which I used as examples. I found a picture
of an articulated waterspout online here:
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0011377/Galerie/Bw/Fotos/402-27.jpg
> For your next trick, please build a functional track pan! (3)
> 3 - an arrangment for gathering water at speed. Long (1/2 mile or more) pans
> of water are between the rails on tangent(4) track and scoops are lowered
> from the tender to scoop up water while going 30 mph or more. This allowed
> crack passenger trains to keep running longer... (why not water the tender
> at station stops? Because of the spotting(2) problem, if you have a heavy
> train attached, it's much harder to make that precise of a stop without
> bunching slack and spilling passenger coffee)
I didn't know this way of taking water existed! I couldn't find pictures
online and my trainbooks don't mention this (then again, my books only
describe European trains...)
-Frank
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| (...) Google is your friend. Try a search with these keywords, about 1/2 of the first page is relevant references steam water track pan railroad This is not a bad reference (URL) and NYC (mad competitors on the NY-Chicago run) both used them to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Decidedly european, but nifty (double articulation/swivel points on the spout are not common IS practice IIRC (1), it was usually just a swivel(2) (if a standpipe) or a boom dropping down from the side of the water tank ) For your next trick, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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