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Re: New train
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Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:37:42 GMT
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Ben Fleskes wrote:
> >
> > We're starting to see a nice variety of "steamroller steamers", my newly • coined
> > term for steamers that use flangeless main drivers that extend back into the
> > interior of the engine.
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> > Anything that uses solid or boxpox drivers is a good candidate for this
> > approach.
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> ben>> Larry, would you please elaborate. I do not know what you mean by boxpox
> drivers? Would those be drive wheels that do not have spokes?
I think Boxpox was a brand name for cast drivers that had small round
holes as their cutouts instead of the more conventional spoked wheels. I
also think people started using the term for any solid (except for round
holes) drivers, deprecating the brandname.
But I am working from memory. I am sure James, who loves to try to catch
me in errors, will amplify.
> ben>> Thanks Larry! Is it save to say that I got the wheel arrangement right
> for this train? For if it was wrong, I'd normally expect you to comment as
> such.
On diesels, yes. Steam ain't my bag. So it's not safe to say that. I
didn't go look it up and I don't have it memorised.
> ben>> Was there any doubt? No sersiously, thanks for the compliments. And
> when I finish my roundhouse/turntable, I expect to impress you with my solid
> LEGO creation (Legomodular as I think you termed it). While it's only five
> bricks tall at the base (and not 16), it should still qualify.
You'll have some interface challenges but those can be overcome.
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| (...) Na, you got it just about right. I don't _know_ of any other makers of 'solid' wheels for railway engine use, so I think that it is right to call all wheels like that boxpox wheels. The only class of UK engines I can think of that used them (...) (27 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) touch. (...) ben>> It's a brick. (...) coined (...) ben>> Larry, would you please elaborate. I do not know what you mean by boxpox drivers? Would those be drive wheels that do not have spokes? (...) ben>> Thanks Larry! Is it save to say that I (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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