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You've seen my signature. You may have visited my site (with its 1 drawing!) Well now, you can see a real CLCo design. It obviously draws inspiration from the ACE 3000 if you've seen that, and it uses Bill Withuhn's compound design. On one side it looks like a 4-4-6-4, and on the other, a 4-6-4-4, with rods connecting the two inside. It has a return flue boiler (LOOK IT UP! Too lazy to explain another thingNick, let me know if you're ordering some.
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Comments: 17
TrainzMan14578 In reply to RailroadNutjob [2012-09-04 02:51:15 +0000 UTC]
Came up with a stronger version that's a 6-8-8-6. It and it's tender retain the 4-10-4's external looks.
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TrainzMan14578 In reply to RailroadNutjob [2012-09-04 03:15:13 +0000 UTC]
It popped into my mind. Inmagine see two lugging a 10,000 ton freight train back-to-back!
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RailroadNutjob In reply to TrainzMan14578 [2012-09-04 03:16:08 +0000 UTC]
Oh yeah.
Well, why not explaining to this fella here, ?
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Sampug394 [2009-08-27 21:51:56 +0000 UTC]
It Looks like a Peculiar Locomotive...
BECAUSE IT IS A PECULIAR LOCOMOTIVE
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Atticus-W [2009-08-27 16:28:40 +0000 UTC]
So this is the engine you were developing last night?? Looks pretty cool, if kinda similar to the ACE (boiler notwithsatnding). What was the thinking behind the divided drive train-- and staggered, at that? Wouldn't an all-outside-siderod-connected arangment have been simpler to build and maintain?
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simulatortrain In reply to Atticus-W [2009-08-27 16:40:15 +0000 UTC]
This is it, although I might change the design now to look more like a typical steamer.
The wheel arrangement was proposed in an issue of Trains magazine once by Withuhn, it was supposed to reduce pounding on the track somehow. I don't quite understand it.
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Atticus-W In reply to simulatortrain [2009-08-27 16:47:43 +0000 UTC]
Hm, interesting! Can't argue with that I guess.
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simulatortrain In reply to Atticus-W [2009-08-27 16:48:24 +0000 UTC]
I'm not even sure how the inside rod would connect, because of the axles.
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Atticus-W In reply to simulatortrain [2009-08-27 16:56:50 +0000 UTC]
Crank axles of some sort, I guess?
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Chakat-Railrunner [2009-08-27 01:19:05 +0000 UTC]
All ACEs in my book. Pun definitely intended.
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