Silly season? - The K3 project

http://k3steam.com/

Need more be said?

.....good luck with a 140mph K3, a poor rider at the best of times. Bizarre.

 

Where in the UK would they be allowed to break 126?

 

Not worth a comment - not a printable one, anyway.

 

Wheres Mr Reeder?

 

Couldn't see the flux capacitor on the drawing.

Bob.

 

'Captain, she'll no take it,the dilithium crystals are overloaded'.

 

Presumably the locomotive will be named Mountain King...

 

Can't be serious! If you wanted to build a record-breaking loco which would be an updated version of an existing design, why on earth choose a K3? A Porta/Wardale-ised version of a Duchess or an A4 probably would manage to break Mallard's record if it was given the chance to do so, or if you wanted to build a souped-up version of an extinct class rather than one where examples have survived, a large-wheeled 4-4-0 or 4-4-2 would be a better bet as your starting point than a 5' 8" mogul.

 

Can't quite make out the detail, but the boiler does look a wee bit Porta-ish........

Cheers,

Alan

 

This is too silly even for him; last time I heard, he had a faceache page for an industrial he didn't own but would like others to buy for him. No, silliness on this scale can only be the product of one man... The infamous ALF ROBERTS!!!!!

 

This one? Thought he was dead

 

I couldn't make head or tail of it so assumed it was some Drummond contraption involving water tubes.

 

To be fair, some of Mr Drummond's contraptions could spin their drivers pretty rapidly. The only problem being that the leading drivers would be spinning forwards while the trailing ones were spinning back...

I'm just off to set up www.faceache.com/crowdfundmydoublesingle ...

Tom

 

Is it April 1st?.............

 

Well I'm taking this proposal very seriously. It's a well thought out plan that has a great chance of success.

 

I thought that only Mr Webb's with the slip eccentric for the middle cylinder achieved that.

 

Possibly so. You could get them to slip independently on each set of drivers though, not helped by having completely different valve gear for the inside and outside cylinders, with different cut-off characteristics etc.

Coming back to the OP: isn't there a group in America attempting something similar? So I see it now: Bonneville Salt Flats, lay about ten miles of track dead straight across the salt, USAC timing for a measured mile mid way. Recreate the glory days of Cobb and Campbell against Arfons and Breedlove, and no silly arguments thereafter about whether a mile really was a mile, or locos only hitting high speeds when dropped over the edge of metaphorical cliffs (no names, no pack drill...)



Tom

 

Ah, I see!

So, entering fully into the spirit of this, is there any chance the NRM would lend me the Duchess of Hamilton's bathtub for my new build Turbomotive?

 

May God bless all who sail in it.