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  1. LesterBrown
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    Silly season? - The K3 project

    Serious thread drift .... but does any one know is Lady of Legend getting bogie brakes?
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 19 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  3. LesterBrown
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    Silly season? - The K3 project

    The Great Bear had ten of its twelve wheels braked, it was intended to fit brakes to all twelve but the whole contraption was becoming seriously...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 19 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  4. LesterBrown
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    Silly season? - The K3 project

    Re American groups the CSR 130 project to rebuild ATSF locomotive No. 3463 of 1937 to burn biocoal and run at 130 mph seems to have gone quiet....
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 17 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  5. LesterBrown
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    Silly season? - The K3 project

    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...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 8 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  6. LesterBrown
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    Silly season? - The K3 project

    I thought that only Mr Webb's with the slip eccentric for the middle cylinder achieved that.
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 8 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  7. LesterBrown
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    Favourite loco type

    Hymek
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 8 авг 2015 в разделе: Diesel & Electric Traction
  8. LesterBrown
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    Silly season? - The K3 project

    I couldn't make head or tail of it so assumed it was some Drummond contraption involving water tubes. [emoji1]
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 7 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  9. LesterBrown
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    More Victorian/Edwardian Steam - The Alternative Way Ahead?

    Lovely looking loco, in a similar vein I think a S&DJR small Johnson 4-4-0 would be a nice new build project. For heritage line use it had...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 5 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Sir William A. Stanier, FRS

    But what would be the point? Surely a replica of 6202 should be just that. A radically new efficient form of traction ultimately leads to the...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 5 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  11. LesterBrown
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    Sir William A. Stanier, FRS

    I'm not sure any significant improvements would be necessary, other than those made to it when in service (I think the reversing clutch and some...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 4 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  12. LesterBrown
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    Sir William A. Stanier, FRS

    Might not recreating 6202s turbines be less problematic than redesigning the P2's valve gear? [emoji1]
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 2 авг 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  13. LesterBrown
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    Next New Build to be completed

    I saw parts of a model Dean Single he was building about 30 years ago, it was an absolutely perfect scaled down replica precise in every detail.
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 15 июл 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  14. LesterBrown
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    GWR Streamlined Castle : 5005 Manorbier Castle

    I think the GWR streamlining just wasn't carried thoroughly enough. Obviously a very different approach to the overall casings adopted by Gresley...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 20 июн 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  15. LesterBrown
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    MR Design Philosophy; Henry Fowler, ex-42424 - New Build Fowler Tank

    I agree, the Claughtons were very much a near miss. Certainly some of the problems including the piston rings might well have been sorted out...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 5 июн 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  16. LesterBrown
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    Steam loco survival myths

    This site http://www.railalbum.co.uk/mystery/mystery05.htm has a photo of Mountaineer and says it's boiler was still there in 2004.
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 4 июн 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  17. LesterBrown
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    Steam loco survival myths

    Wrong "Mountaineer". That photo is the second experimental Fairlie built in 1866 for the Anglesey Central Railway. The one at Burry Port was...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 4 июн 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  18. LesterBrown
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    Steam loco survival myths

    I wouldn't expect the firebox to have been much use in a culvert, particularly as the dome aperture was in the top of it. Probably just the two...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 4 июн 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  19. LesterBrown
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    What were the 4s for?

    I thought the 6100s were 4MT?
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 4 июн 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  20. LesterBrown
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    Steam loco survival myths

    The boiler shells of "Mountaineer" an 0-4-4-0 built in 1870 by the Fairlie Engine & Rolling Stock Co. reputedly used as a culvert at West Dock,...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 4 июн 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
  21. LesterBrown
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    Power Classifications, how and why?

    They might havr been on use on the Midland but some of the Western Region classifications were clearly nonsense, the 4MT prairies ranged from the...
    Сообщение от: LesterBrown, 2 июн 2015 в разделе: Steam Traction
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