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Subject: 
Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim
Date: 
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:52:09 GMT
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I wasn’t going to post this, but after John Neal complained (and accurately so) that it was too quiet in Lugnet.trains, I decided to go ahead.

As some may remember from the thread concerning my ten wheeler steam engine “Lady”, I was considering building the Blue Mountain & Reading #425 steam engine. The #425 is a Pacific class locomotive, and though I was excited about building it, I’ve already done a Pacific class, as well as a very similarly designed Hudson, so it wasn’t going to be a very exciting build unless I changed something.

So I decided to challenge myself and build it 7-wide with a SNOT boiler, going for as round a look as possible. Using ideas from Tim Gould and Benn Coifman, I was able to come up with a ~5-wide SNOT boiler I’m pleased with.

So far I think it’s coming along well.



And here’s a quick look at the design I used (click on the pictures to see details and notes):




Any comments and criticism is welcome.

So there you go, John. I’ve contributed to the activity to Lugnet.trains this week. :)

--Tony



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  Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
 
(...) Really nice work Anthony must have cost you a fortune in cheesebricks but the final effect is really good, I'm probably more inclined to use half cylinders and stay 6 wide but this look great,I must admit though I always admire Ben Beneke's 7 (...) (17 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
  Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
 
(...) Well, it has to be said, and I don't care who it offends. Altogether now... "What... ...a friend we have in chee-sers" Jason R (17 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
  Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
 
(...) I have to say that is really slick :) I think I'll have to use taht idea at some point. Thanks for sharing. (17 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim)
  Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
 
(...) It is indeed! It's looking great. I used a very similar technique for a German BR-52 locomotive. Where you used 1-stud width of tile I used two, so my boiler came out to be 6-wide. Based on your design it looks like you might have discovered (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
  Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
 
(...) ... (...) ... (...) Very nice. I saw your comment on flickr about the running boards. You might want to try what I did on my similarly snotted boiler. I used white for the running boards, but then right above I used 1x2x1 panels instead of (...) (17 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)

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