 | | More obscure diesel variants (Was Re: BNSF new paint) —Tim David
| | | | Mark's (URL) mention> of the Fell led me to look it up. It seems needlessly complicated and basically the result of trying to prove a mistaken point (that mechanical transmission could be as good or better than electrical) (URL) If you're (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: More obscure diesel variants (Was Re: BNSF new paint) —James Powell
| | | | | (...) Actually, I tend to think that it was more along the lines of the original 1950 plan- try everyting, and see what works and what doesn't work. Just because the FT was great in NA did not mean that it was going to be the best way to dieselize (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: More obscure diesel variants (BoCo) —Mark Bellis
| | | | | (...) Not a real one, but (in a shameless self-plug) my model of one won a prize at Hull model railway show last November. Here it has red buffer beams, like the illustrations of BoCo in the Awdry books: (URL) For the official prize photo I changed (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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