Ten bucks sez my tin foil hat will. [8-|]
Overmod;
Please excuse my ignorance. I must have been mis-lead.
john
Actually, [ -beeeep- ]
Hand firing large locomotives has been illegal since the 1930s, and the very small required mass of plutonium fuel led to the development of appropriate-scale stokers. There is plenty of room for combination lead/slag-loaded concrete/paraffin neutron blanketing on the outside of the proposed N-scale Standard HT stoker, with appropriate shielded waldoes to operate the tiny valves and jet controls. Surely someone has a picture of the arrangement (even if it is a photomicrograph)…
Thanks to all for continuing while I was away -
with best wishes for a mint 2014 !
… and lest we forget :
keep on steaming !
Regards
Juniatha
And my best wishes for
“Good Luck !”
to all of those caught in this bitterly biting winter frost -
may springtime release you early this year !
Re: wheel “hunting”:
A lot depends upon some of the suspension built into trucks, learned in passenger truck design down through the ages. If you want to experience what it is like to ride a 4-wheel truck not properly designed for even moderate speed, take a ride on the MBTA Riverside Line out of Boston.
See the Handbook of Railway Vehicle Dynamics (Iwnicki, ed.; 2006), section XII, p.19ff. In my opinion that should address any questions you may have about hunting on a mechanical level, at least for purposes of a discussion like this one.
(The relevant text is accessible on the Google Books preview, accessible here in the United States, for those who can’t get access to a printed copy…)
@ users Overmod and dinodanthetrainman
You are - again - hiking the thread !
To repeat what can be read in my intro :
This thread is not about unconventionals !
Your posts should have appeared in the thread ‘Extreem Steam - about unconventionals II’ - which I had especially set up for Overmod to blow his mind about plenty of unconventional and extra drives , Bowes and Besler , Cunningham and what have you applications , auxiliaries and appurtenances .
The following posts diverting from the theme of this thread have thus been moved to a new thread .
Because of this hiking I have given up posting anything in this thread anymore , especially I see no use in posting some conventional ( i.e. in lin with 1940s Super Power steam as built ) designs of mine like the 4-10-6 I wanted to post if discussion would have proceeded in the direction described in my intro to this thread .
Since nothing about conventional or classic steam is coming forward in this thread I will herewith close it .
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the theme .
Regards
= J =