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Published: 2009-08-27 01:15:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1696; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 25
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Description 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 thing !) Coal fired, and I'd say around 6000 hp. Left unit is the engine (obviously,) right one is the tender. The trucks can have traction motors with a turbine in the loco powering them, it's optional.

Nick, let me know if you're ordering some.
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Comments: 17

Rockyrailroad578 [2014-05-22 23:56:28 +0000 UTC]

No Giesl ejectors then?

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dinodanthetrainman [2012-10-14 18:57:28 +0000 UTC]

I had a similar idea

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RailroadNutjob [2012-08-29 13:13:08 +0000 UTC]

Holy gravy.

Amazing.

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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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RailroadNutjob In reply to TrainzMan14578 [2012-09-04 03:13:56 +0000 UTC]

Huh, really?

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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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simulatortrain In reply to Sampug394 [2009-08-27 22:21:45 +0000 UTC]

YUS

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Sampug394 In reply to simulatortrain [2009-08-27 22:51:16 +0000 UTC]

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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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simulatortrain In reply to Atticus-W [2009-08-27 17:00:12 +0000 UTC]

Maybe.

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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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