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  1. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    Can we use a boy scout code? British unbraked goods is 15 mph Half CoT is 50 mph Half down Duck is 62 mph Etc? We die without a steady supply...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 20, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  3. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    OK Will start new thread and see if I like prison food.
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 20, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  4. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    Hear,Hear, Me too
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 20, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  5. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    Mr Riddles was not impressed by LNER Pacifics in a foreword for a Pacific book 1961.To big wheels and boiler.Is a book from 1961 still copyrigth?
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 20, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  6. Hermod
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    Saint Class 135 ish mph

    What source?
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 20, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  7. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    Thank You for writing wisdom from riding engines and not reading Cox-books. What is the fastest You have run on a twocylinder-engine? Especially...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 20, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  8. Hermod
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    Saint Class 135 ish mph

    Gravity assistance or mortgaging boiler as mr Cox used to express it?
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 19, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  9. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    Much trouble with british piston valves stemmed from using plug valves and worse . The Prussians put five narrow 6 times 6 mm rings on...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 18, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  10. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    According to John Bellwood writing in Steam World issue 144 LNER A2 were Best British passenger locomotives. Same issue contains a letter from...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 18, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  11. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    Let me try. Two outside cylinders,Belpaire boiler and a decent swiveling truck aft?...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 18, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  12. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    Best British locomotive has not been made yet. Riddles is quoted at least three times for saying as old man that 4-8-0 had been best. Two times...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 16, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  13. Hermod
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    Best British Locomotive

    Many. This one was bult by Neilson for Danish State Railways and the valve gear is Allen/(Trick) http://www.jernbanen.dk/Fotos/Damp/DSB_K501_1894.jpg
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 15, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Saint Class 135 ish mph

    Another source says 90 tons for locomotive so we have 205 tons going down with 0.45 meter per second on a 1:100 incline with 100 mph. This is 905...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 13, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Saint Class 135 ish mph

    Volvo is chineese these days and they are next on moon(If the indians do not beat them).
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 13, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Best British Locomotive

    Two throw crankshaft making half power instead of one throw making one third?...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 13, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Saint Class 135 ish mph

    Are the Mallard Dyno rolls visible on web (free for all to see)? How long and heavy was City of Truro train and how steep the hill?
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 13, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Saint Class 135 ish mph

    A Danish IC 3 train is 60 meter long and is 100 tons and use 1600 horsepower to go 180 kmh.A 100 tons A4 plus 3 cars are longer (80m?) and not so...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 13, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    The Churchward 4-4-0 Counties had technology as a pre US Civil war locomotive: Short wheelbase,4 eccentrics on driving axle transfereed with...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 9, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    KPEV S6 from Germany served in Belgium and Poland until mid fifties. Seven feet drivers and very little fore and aft balance. Powerfull and very...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 7, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    6023

    Steam locomotives 2017 is a virtual world anyway . Take some angle grinders to Settle- Carisle and cut platforms edges 1 or 2 inches back. A...
    Post by: Hermod, Oct 7, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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