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Now this end is the interesting end. During designing the loco is immensely large yet it still did not have a place to put dynamic brake grids. The solution was to put them on a second, perminently coupled unit. This would allow space for a second cab and more fuel capacity to be taken on long haul trips too, double bonus! The weight of the thing seemed like a bit of a pain to drag around until I remembered road slugs, locos that fed from the power of a mother locomotive for their own traction. Thus was created the 'fuel slug'. A perminently coupled unit that got rid of need to turn to loco around a the end of a trip and for refuelling part way through a long run. Lets face it, the main loco is so long it wouldn't fit on a turntable and using a 'reversing triangle' with tight curves would be out of the question.

The two are connected by a solid drawbar and a small bridge is there to allow one to walk from one end of the monstrocity to the other without ever having to touch the ground.

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Loco design and model was created by me and is copywrite

Description
Now this end is the interesting end. During designing the loco is immensely large yet it still did not have a place to put dynamic brake grids. The solution was to put them on a second, perminently coupled unit. This would allow space for a second cab and more fuel capacity to be taken on long haul trips too, double bonus! The weight of the thing seemed like a bit of a pain to drag around until I remembered road slugs, locos that fed from the power of a mother locomotive for their own traction. Thus was created the 'fuel slug'. A perminently coupled unit that got rid of need to turn to loco around a the end of a trip and for refuelling part way through a long run. Lets face it, the main loco is so long it wouldn't fit on a turntable and using a 'reversing triangle' with tight curves would be out of the question.

The two are connected by a solid drawbar and a small bridge is there to allow one to walk from one end of the monstrocity to the other without ever having to touch the ground.

Other views of it:

Loco design and model was created by me and is copywrite