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| | | Of course, more wasn't better. More wheels meant less weight per wheel thus protecting rails which couldn't support that much weight. Generally speaking, this is why Euro..er stuff has more wheels per pound than US stuff. So actually, less is (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —James Powell
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| | | | | (...) It doesn't matter! It is FOA which matters, if you have 100 powered wheels or 2 powered wheels, if you have the same weight above them, you can deliver the same torque to the track to start the train. (FOA=Factor Of Adhesion, Tractive (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) I wasn't referring to power so much as overall weight bearing down upon the rails themselves. So if you had rails on a soft bed, you couldn't utilize engines whose weight wasn't distributed over X amount of drivers/and or unpowered wheels; it (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | | | (...) rails (...) wheels; (...) things? (...) for (...) Picking up on what James has written, the uneven power pulses of a traditional steam engine hammer the track - this eventually pushes the rails apart/sinks them. It's quite amazing to witness (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Matthew Karius
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| | | | (...) actually, (...) I'm not I understand why you say less is better. Your point about spreading the weight over more wheels to protect the track is correct. The Garratts are used on narrow guage as well as standard guage track. To run that big an (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Sorry, it's a running joke about American superiority over "Eurotrash"-- it wasn't meant to make sense... -John (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | (...) thus (...) speaking, (...) wasn't (...) Running Joke? EuroTrash? Of course, As a responsible adult I would NEVER entertain the prolification of such a damaging line of conversation...Hmmm... ...who was it who invented the steam engine and the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Your trains are dinky. There isn't much else that needs to be said, really. :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | (...) Europeans actually use their trains, though :) If there's anything dinky in Europe, it's there trucks. No king-of-the-highway road-hogging 18 wheelers :) --Bram (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | | | :-) (...) Our Version is called the Reliant Robin Van, and has three (wheels, that is) Jon . (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | Jonathan Reynolds <scorch@tinyworld.co.uk> wrote in message news:FsM7IH.An2@lugnet.com... (...) conversation...Hmmm... (...) was (...) to (...) As they no longer make steam engines as the industry standard, it is unlikely to be broken. (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —James Powell
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| | | | | (...) Wellllll....now, my handy dandy books show Mallard at 126 MPH and... In 1906 a steam powered car built by the Stanley brothers of Newtown, Massachusetts, and driven by Fred Marriott, set a new world land speed record of _127.66 mph_ at Ormond (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | (...) Errr...what have I started here? I'll say this in my best US accent "chill out, man" (hope that sounds like the real thing). All meant in jest, maybe us Brits are not the ones with the 'stiff upper lip' after all! Jon (ps British humour is (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) I agree. There's really no need to detail in depth the many ways the Brits have messed up the entire world in this group. :-) We can take that up in off-topic.debate or off-topic.fun (depending on your perspective (1) ) Seriously, when I say (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | (...) have (...) Yes, I'm actually a real live minifig and your big huge trains scare me (too many echos). Jon Ps We call Joe Lucas "The Prince of Darkness" over here! (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Stupid question about steam engines —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Right. I have an MG Midget and I used to have an E-Type Jaguar. So I am well acquainted with the evil that Lucas has perpetrated. Two quickies Q:Why do the British drink warm beer? A:Because they like it? Q:WRONG. It's because they have Lucas (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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