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Re: My "Legends" building spree
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 21 Oct 2002 20:25:50 GMT
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Jason J Railton wrote:
> Just to prolong the issue for no good reason (apart from perhaps stopping
> newbies asking the same question again ;-) my Dad reckons that the MOT train
> set/bundle from Shop@Home looks like the sort of thing you get chugging
> around Africa. So, there's a whole continent we missed.
Yea, they do bear some resemblance to a Beyer-Garrat, but if we look for
weird things they might look like, they actually look most like a Shay,
Heisler, or Climax (or a few other less well known geared locomotives).
Of course without the cylinders of such, the resemblance is only in
passing.
They don't look too much like a Beyer-Garrat because Beyer-Garrats are
actually a three part articulated engine. The front and back parts carry
water and fuel tanks, and sit on sets of drivers (which look pretty much
like a more normal steam engine). The center part carries the cab and
boiler, and is suspended between the front and rear sections. I also
have yet to see one which had a separate tender (whereas the Shay and
Climax do come in versions which have three trucks, with the third truck
being a tender).
The real problem is that with the current set of 9v parts, it is
impossible to build anything which bears more than passing resemblance
to a steam engine.
Frank
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 | | Re: My "Legends" building spree
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| (...) True. Very few steam locos didn't have _some_ exposed motion. (...) (URL) a separate tender, no. But a canteen car, yes. (URL) for all kinds og Garratt photos/info. (URL) for NA geared steam locos. (does not include the Sentinel of ANDco, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My "Legends" building spree
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| (...) Just to prolong the issue for no good reason (apart from perhaps stopping newbies asking the same question again ;-) my Dad reckons that the MOT train set/bundle from Shop@Home looks like the sort of thing you get chugging around Africa. So, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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