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Re: What is the largest lego steam engine ever built?
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:51:44 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Daniel Siskind writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Stacy J. Bledsoe writes:
> > 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?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jonathan Wilson
> > > > wilsonj@xoommail.com
> > > > http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > 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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> Hello Stacy!
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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 weekend and was even involved in a minor crack-up when one of the
> lead wheels pulled free and was ran over by the rest of the locomotive!
> Hopefully the pics will turn out and I can post the completed version (of • course
> just in time to rebuild it to 8-wide scale!).
>
> Dan
Hello Dan,
I think that building the big boy into an 8-wide would be great example of why
8-wides should be considered. My big boy is 7-wide, boiler is 5-wide plus
walking rails, and I found it difficult to get the driver sets to fit under
the boiler proportionately. If you look at an elevation of the front of any
steamer, the bioler and the drivers are in line, even the valve blocks and
drive gear are in line, in most cases. With the lego track being its width,
my 7-wide snugs in the drivers just fine, but the drive gear, push rods and
valve blocks stick out a half a stud on each side. Not to mention the fact
that I have articulating steam tubes and the saddle on the front smoke box,
like the real item, to sqeeze into a 4-wide space. Also, the 8-wide would
allow bigger trains to have a more advanced driver articulation arrangment
allowing one to slide translate the 9V motor like on HO guage trains. This in
turn would pull the entire body of the train in line with the drivers better.
Oh well, I look forward to seeing it. I off to build the Jawn Henry.
Stacy Bledsoe
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