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Subject: 
building a 4-4-0 American with BBB wheels, advice wanted
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Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:15:38 GMT
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I am thinking about building a 4-4-0 American in 6-wide using BBB wheels.
Can anyone suggest what size wheels I should use for the various wheel sets
(front truck, driving wheels, tender) to make it look true-to-prototype?.
Can use any of the BBB wheels as well as the tiny LEGO train wheels.

In case it matters, the "prototype" I am planning to use as a reference is
the 4-4-0 seen in Back To The Future 3.



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  Re: building a 4-4-0 American with BBB wheels, advice wanted
 
(...) I had very good luck using small and large BBB wheels for my 4-4-0 American on my Christmas Train project. See what I did here: (URL) the tender I just used a 9V engine, but if you had some other power method then two bogies with a total of 8 (...) (17 years ago, 22-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains)

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