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Published: 2008-09-05 00:32:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 2040; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 19
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For what started out as a rather whimsical concept, this turned out fairly realistic, if I may say so myself. A Pacific with a rather French flair to it... inspired by a garden wheelbarrow.Drawn back in late July.
EDIT: 12/15: Today I learned a bit about vacuum brakesβ I'm rather surprised that no has pointed out my confusion of a vacuum brake exhaust pipe with the feedwater pipe in this picture!
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The vacuum brake exhaust pipe is the long, straight pipe that travels down one side of the boiler and then bends into the side of the smokebox on most British engines... you can see it here on the Flying Scotsman: [link] . It's the pipe that travels forward from the cab and ends at that brass flange above the builder's plate.
A vacuum brake system is "charged" by blowing a jet of steam across an air nozel piped to the brake system, thus sucking air out of the brake pipe and creating the titular vacuum. That nozel fitting is in the cab, and the vacuum brake exhaust pipe sends the jet of steam forward to blow out of the smokestack.
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Yeah.
You could say that again....
LOL
XD
...Maybe.
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Looks good!
Strangely, to myself, this is what would European-style Hyrulian trains should've looks like.
Whoops, new ideas pops up!
One idea says I would see this SAME old European 4-6-2, only except with a new look, Hyrulian-style, almost looks Zelda Deluge-yish, entitled "MUCH MOAR Spirit Tracks".
New idea, for the win!
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A European locomotive with bar frames? What a rarity!
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Hmm... ahaha, looks like you got me. XD Just goes to show that there are some things I'm so used to in the US that I don't even think about them when it comes to trying for a European design! (Another "mistake" of mine... I made the smokebox too small! I'm guessing the smokebox diameter would be larger than the boiler diameter on a real European engine.) Let's just say it's an American-built engine with a European-built tender (which looks more British than French, but at least it seems to have plate frames! XD)
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O.o Looks like a Swedish class B 4-6-0 on steroids, what did they put in that water?
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Salt.
And I have to admit, you have a point! Funny, as I wasn't thinking of that engine in the slightest when I drew this. (Though I wouldn't have been able to draw one of those from memory anyway. XD)
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They are, they are. I've always wanted to see the one in Belfast, Maine, but I haven't gotten the chance yet.
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Not anymore, the one in belfast went up on the RR market for sale. In fact, that entire railroad is slated for sale!
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Aw, really? 
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[link] are the two steamers. Sidelined, futuer unknown.
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[link] is where you can find the equipment. Seems the whole railroad is up for grabs. Allthough the imigas show some intersting Ero-american meging (US Switchers with buffers, knuckle cuplings, and the shuch) anyway, look around a bit
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Crying shame... looks like it was a fascinating railroad.
Funny thing is, I actually visited the place once when I was a little kid. They weren't running at the time, but I got a wall pendant (like the ones for sports teams) for the railraod that I still have.
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Actually, you'd be better off comming here and see one in original condition and in it's natural habitat. A 3-chime and bell just isn't right, I know it's because of US regulations but they should have a screamer whistle. [link]
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Yeah, those screech whistles are darn cool, but I think my chances of winding up in Europe anytime soon are remarkably less than my chances of winding up in Belfast. XD
And it's really because of regulations that they can't use the proper whistle? I mean, some folks might not like them, but to make them illegal... that's kinda silly. XD (Do you know if the folks who run the Swedish 2-8-0 on the HCW line have the same problem? That's another one on my "want to see" list...)
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It becuse its near impossible to use screech whistles for anything but well....screeching! Whistle signels (outside of the commenly used Two for forward, three for reverse, and one for stop) are indistiguisable.
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I believe it's US regulations, line locomotives don't have high-pitch whistles. The 2-8-0 is an E2 class, based on the E class 0-8-0 freight engine who some were given a pilot truck.
Some people claim the engine is built in canada but that is false, she was most probably sold when the steam reserve in Sweden was dismantled.
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Yeah, it would be encredibly silly to claim that that engine was built in Canada. 
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Go on youtube and search E1153 and you'll se one.
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Very Nice! Like the touch of weathering to!
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Thanks!
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It was very subtle but it looked really good to me!
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Yeah, I can't even see it on the monitor I'm using now. XD I'm glad someone could, though!
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Oh God... 
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Oh yes, lawnmowers most definitly turn into locomotives... they make fine diesels! And thanks!! Mr. Chapelon might have tried to pack a few more cylinders in there, but hey.
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Mines an Alco...it spues smoke when I don't oil it!
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Yeah, Chapelon could've made a Steam Locomotive with 6 Cylinders if he stayed around long enough...
I'm trying to think about what other Yard Machines/Tools/Appliances would resemble Trains...
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Hehe, no doubt. XD
And how about snowshovels... it doesn't take much imagination to turn one of them into a snowplow... so long as you aren't too focused pretending to be a fireman. XD
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Ha, No kidding, It's like shoveling too much White Coal around; It doesn't warm up the Area 'cause it doesn't get Burned!
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Well I know mine's big, loud, and sounds like a Conrail locomotive! xD I just need an airhorn for her.
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Excellent idea! XD
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and I though my imagination took flight when I used to pretend Wheelberrows were hopper cars! You found a steamer in one!
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Ah yeah, I pretend they're hopper cars, too.
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lol!!! Yah, when i was younger me and a ferand used to hook wagens together and run them up and down the woods, digging up clay, filling them, and running back. We would pretend we were histlers and/or Shays and we were making mining runs on the "K&S Railroad"
K&S became KR&SR...the initals of both our names...KR&SR was the forunner of the WOLF. The green collors on WRR's locomotives are reminders of the green wagons!
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Oh wow, I used to do stuff like that, too. It's so good that you can preserve the childhood roots in your current railroad. That's solid stuff to build on.
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0725? hmm.......
great pacific by the way!
i love the semi-streamlined cab!
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0725=July 25, or the day I sketched this. (I often number my engines with the date I drew them.
And thanks! I always thought those cabs were kind of cool...
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A garden wheelbarrow? You have 4-6-2 Wheelbarrows?
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