Would it be possible to tee off from the motor leads to say under the cab and make the connection there?
Not a problem I will be very busy for the next two weeks driving all over Fresno ( 2 hour’s away ) working for a change 11-12 hour day’s I can wait that much longer for the vidio. I did do a quick mesure of the back yard in reno the main town looks to be 15x18 with run around the grass and paver’s of about 210-230foot to the other side of the Reno house .
OK Dave here you go…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSY2Xj5UWEw
Ya happy? [;)][:D][swg][D)][:-,][(-D]
very cool i think it looks better than the accucraft (because i like kitbashes better[swg][swg])
Damm u. I was making an impression of “Thomas the thank engine” an half way threw cutting I began to realize that I was turning from blowing up this thing and making it a 2-6-0T&T. Ill post some pics as aoon as I find my camera. [banghead] where did it go?
Any new progress?
After all the discussion about the new USA and Piko docksiders valve gear, I added crosshead and stephenson valve mechanism, I think it looks the better for it.
vic, you do great work. Hope I can get that good some day. I just saw the video of it on your indoor layout. Very cool. dont know how i missed that video. I really like that layout. Have you been able to get anymore work done to it?
I second that motion! If anyone could do it, Vic would be my first choice.
Just the crossheads and I finished the backhead, which was very basic, nothing worth posting, just enough that it doesnt look empty, I still have alot of plumbing detail I want to add to this one to give it more depth, again in a simplified form, its already at a very basic level of detail, very apparent when you see it up close.
Try it, I started with using cheap disposable battery locomotives and cars. Not much to risk losing when your entire train set cost $40
But where would I run it? I’m R1 restricted.
I’ve considered joining a club like the Del Oro or the Fairplex so I could build and run a larger engine, I already have two pet projects, well 3 if you consider the Dean Single as well, the other 2 are both Russian, one being the AA20, the largest rigid frame locomotive ever built at a 4-14-4 wheel arraingment;
AA20
The other is my favorite apochrophylicly legendary long lost “Big Joe” atomic locomotive, built in the 1950’s for the Trans Siberian service, a massive articulated Garret 4-12-12-4 + 4-12-12-4 fueled by a dry graphite reactor, which was a disasterous choice as it got so hot it melted the permafrost under the artic circle test track and triggering a meltdown causing the whole engine to sink into the superheated mud, disappearing forever.
Please note the “Big Joe” exists today only in fiction and in legend. I would love to build a version of this maybe using a pair of Aristo Mallet’s as the basis.
http://gold.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Big%20Joe%20Model%20.pdf
Plan of the “Big Joe”
even if built as a 4-8-8-4 + 4-8-8-4 it would be a mighty impressive sight prowling the Fairplex
OK I’ve been lax in reviewing your vidio that I wyned about. It look’s alsome nothing but the best as per usal.
Dave soon to have an Outdoor RR
“If you dream it the engine will come” - unknown
Toad
I really like the engine, and I appreciate the photos, esp the valve gear.
2 questions: I note there are 2 sand domes with a centered steam dome. I assume that was because you were building something prototypical?
Other question: Apparently the ‘herky-jerky’ was cured by adding pickups from the tender?
(Free question [:P]) Have you ever tried flywheels to smooth out operation? Seems to me (in speculation) that a flywheel would tend to smooth out the roughness in some of the gear mechanisms. I’m also debating a huge capacitor across the power pack with a potentiometer for an adjustable ‘bleeder’ resistor to allow for slow starts/stops. Wonder if anyone else has gone down this road?
Les
Vic: Just a quick guess, but if you build a “Big Joe” will it run on anything less than an R50?
[(-D]Only if I build it to proto F scale[(-D]
I figure if the Aristo Mallet needs 8 ft dia, that I could built it to that standard, as a young Donald Trumph said to John Lennon “all you need is cash” [swg]
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If you have NOT figured out buy now this IS a JOKE your a idiot.
Toad
Yeah get me the whole DVD set of them ROFLMAO!!!
Toad
It doesn’t look as you described… it looks like a 4-12-12-12-12-4 I don’t see any trucks between the 4 sets of drivers… or am I confused?
YIKES! your right, I drew it up as a 4-12-12-0 + 0-12-12-4 Uber-Garrett, your correct![;)]
I cant even keep my own Apochrophia correct[(-D]