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Re: What is the largest lego steam engine ever built?
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:22:20 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Daniel Siskind writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> > What is the largest lego steam engine ever built and who built it?
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> > --
> > Jonathan Wilson
> > wilsonj@xoommail.com
> > http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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> I would say my Big Boy model would be a fair contender - the locomotive is 64
> bricks long and the tender is an additional 33 bricks, making a grand total of
> 97 bricks. The wheel arrangement for a Big Boy is 4-8-8-4 plus another 7 • axels
> on the tender. There is a picture of a very early prototype on my web site,
> but I will be posting pics of the radically different final model soon.
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> Dan
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> Brick Mania!
> Unofficial LEGO website and online store
Hello Dan,
Your not alone anymore in the Big Boy locomotive world. I enjoyed seeing pics
of your big boy on your web site. Great castles by the way. Nicely done.
Please visiit the NGLTC website by James Trobaugh. www.ngltc.org
go to images, Pedimont, second page of pics, top center. Tell me what you
think.
Thanks
> http://www.visi.com/~blackened
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| (...) I just actually visited the site a few minutes before your post - nice job on your Big Boy! It's too bad pictures of black bricks turn out so poorly as it's hard to see the details. Mine just made a cameo on the GMLTC layout in La Crosse last (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) bricks long and the tender is an additional 33 bricks, making a grand total of 97 bricks. The wheel arrangement for a Big Boy is 4-8-8-4 plus another 7 axels on the tender. There is a picture of a very early prototype on my web site, but I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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