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Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
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Date: 
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:57:04 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Anthony Sava wrote:

   I was fortunate enough to recently get my hands on Big Ben Bricks new Medium Drivers, so I set out to build a Ten Wheeler based off of the Grapevine Railroad’s “Puffy”. “Lady” is fully track ready, easily negotiating turns and points with working pistons.

Looks great, Tony! Might be getting time for a cool GROUP SHOT of all of your steam engines.... I eagerly await MY order of medium BBB wheels.

There is one thing I’d like to say, and this isn’t to you specifically, but it is an appear to Ben himself. I really don’t like the choice of drive rods we have. They stick out like a sore thumb, and they detract from an otherwise smart MOC. But what other options are there? None, really, and so I appeal to Ben:

Please, cast us some driver rods to go along with the wheels, Ben!!!! They would add SO much! </begging>

Thanks for sharing, Tony!

JOHN



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  Drive Rods was... Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady"
 
(...) Gee John, Your not asking for much. :) More prototypical drive rods would certainly be welcome. They would need to be pretty versatile to cover a wide range of wheel arrangements. So far I've built an 0-6-0T, a 4-4-2, a 4-6-2 and a 2-10-0 as (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
  Re: Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
 
(...) Thanks John! She was a fun build, I started her the day I got the new drivers. I'm just a little disappointed that the new drivers can't be stacked close together like the larger versions, but only just a little. Overall they perform very well (...) (17 years ago, 26-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)

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  Sava Railways' #982 "Lady" (with Big Ben's Medium Drivers)
 
(2 URLs) Flickr Gallery> I was fortunate enough to recently get my hands on Big Ben Bricks new Medium Drivers, so I set out to build a Ten Wheeler based off of the Grapevine Railroad's "Puffy". "Lady" is fully track ready, easily negotiating turns (...) (17 years ago, 20-Nov-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !! 

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