Saw this on another forum, couldn’t pass it up
It appears to be MTH (teathers), However maybe it is a result of a merger.
Don,
Do you think it would navigate my O36 curves?[:D] I doubt there are many layouts that will work on.
Dennis
Don- I bet your son would love to take his Driver’s Ed in that engine if it was for real[;)][:P][:)][:o)][:D] Take Care.
Dennis, I think the curves would need to be more like 0360 & not 036.
Maybe GarGraves has a track to run that on as they have very wide radius curves for sale. Far as getting a switch for left or right turns would be very difficult!
Lee Fritz
Oh I love it, I haven’t laughed like this in awhile!
Joel
Ya know just the plain silliness of this pic made my entire week! Especially thinking about the chest pounding action of the actual Big Boy, can you imagine standing next to THIS THING at idle!!! It would probably knock you to the ground!
I once saw a toy train ad for the Big Boy that went something like this:
What’s better than a Big Boy? 2 Big Boys, of course, and there was an accompanying photo of a double-header.
Another ad I saw in the G-scale magazine for a ride-on train (made in Canada I think), showed some kids riding a miniature train and the caption read:
More fun than a barrel of monkeys (unless you happen to have a barrel of monkeys)[:D][:D][:D]
Curves? We don’ need no steenkin’ curves!
I don’t think that thing would run on full-size curves. What’s the name of that line Down Under that crosses some desert or another in a straight line? THAT’S the home for this beast. I bet it’d pull one heckuva train on that track!
Now this is just the kind of stuff that validates Union Pacific’s case. They have good reason to worry about thier reputation in light of the above! I have it from a good source who knows the physical laws of thermo-dynamics, and he says that for the beast to even work, that the boiler would have to have a small nuclear reactor in the fire box with a 32,000lb 98% efficient waste water recovery closed steam system. He estimates a top speed at MACH .75 with 400 loaded coal gondolas.
blabree11
The Trans-Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor plain with a 297-mile tangent.
I surely would buy one if Lionel made one.
Now, a nuclear reactor for this big boy? That would be interesting! Just think of all those folks that used to have sit ins outside the gates of naval bases because they have nukes. They could try to sit on the tracks while this baby barrells down. Then again, maybe not.
Dennis
I’ ll wait till the Railking version comes out! Wait a minute, even that would be too big!
Steve Tapper
Northern Central High Railers