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Re: BR 9F steam engine
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
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Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:11:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Carl Greatrix wrote:
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Thought I’d post this up as dont see many U.K steamers on here.
It was originally built for a forthcoming show, and was intended to be the
“Evening Star”, but lack of availability for many of the parts in dark green
has led to it being built in black and will eventually be badged up after the
show as “Black Prince” one of the only other named 9F’s.
Its my first steamer built since being a kid, thus found it very challenging,
like a vertical learning curve in comparrison to modern engines but also very
rewarding, especially now seeing it in motion with all the valve gear working
quickly :) Link to the full gallery is here
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=342329
It has a seperate 9v battery box in the tender to constantly power the front
and rear lights along with a flashing light in the furnace appature in the
cab, to give the appearance of a flickering flame! A few teething problems
have been ironed out and it now runs very smoothly around all track geometry,
also the front buffers have now been attached to the front bogie to allow it
to straighten up to just within 8 studs wide, 15 studs after a bend.
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/carl/Train/Evening-Star/MainTrain/1a.jpg
<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/carl/Train/Evening-Star/MainTrain/dscn0250.jpg
Hope you like it, comments welcome.
Carl
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Carl, this has to be the best Lego steam engine I have ever seen (and six-wide
to boot!). There are just too many details to point out. Great work!
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| (...) Thanks for the comments guys....the main body and tender are actually 7 wide, it reduces to 6 (not including valve gear) at the front. Matt, I've also been pointed towards a nice review today done by yourself,thank you :) (16 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| Thought I'd post this up as dont see many U.K steamers on here. It was originally built for a forthcoming show, and was intended to be the "Evening Star", but lack of availability for many of the parts in dark green has led to it being built in (...) (16 years ago, 25-Sep-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
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