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Re: Massive 4-8-8-4 Steam locomotive pics posted
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:01:29 GMT
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Dan wrote:
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> As a direct result of Larry Pieniazek's off the cuff "couldn't be done" remark
> of a few days ago, I posted pictures of my massive steam locomotive with 4-8-8-
> 4 wheel configuration that I have just built over the weekend.
Sick, twisted (1) and strangely attractive. Very nice. Of course it's
all cheating, really, since none of your middle technic pulley wheels
actually are even close to being on the rails, but who cares? It looks
good.
What an exceedingly clever idea to micromotor power the drivers...
Move the front connection point to the boiler somewhat forward, though.
Prototypical articulateds and mallets (2) had sliders guides above the
front piston block for the smoke box to slide on. If you move the front
boiler attachment forward some, you'll stop that annoying gap over the
middle cylinders.
Now, who else can I go spur to greatness with an off the cuff remark.
Takers for topic areas? :-)
However, go review the archives, I think some nutty PNLTCer has a loco
as big or bigger than this one. I didn't think much of it either. :-)
Tell me again, you've been working on this for how long? Or did you
happen to troll bait me into an apparent egg-on for something you've
been up to for months? This model doesn't seem only a few days old, too
good. Needs more small detail though. Where is your valve gear? :-) And
the domes seem rather spartan. What, no elesco feedwater heater?
1 - especially on curves... Now don't get all steamed, that's the only
pun in the whole post. Honest.
2 - not all articulateds were Mallets and not all Mallets were
articulated. But most articulateds were mallets and vice versa.
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| (...) Yeah, the middle technic pulleys are offset to the track around corners, but all sit dead center in straight-aways. I originally had rubber Technic belts from axel to axel to keep all of the wheels in motion, but it caused too much friction (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| As a direct result of Larry Pieniazek's off the cuff "couldn't be done" remark of a few days ago, I posted pictures of my massive steam locomotive with 4-8-8- 4 wheel configuration that I have just built over the weekend. At 68 studs long (not (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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