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Now I've firmly decided to model a timber tramway in 1:20.3 scale I've been on the hunt for smaller sized prototypes that would best suit the picture I have in my mind's eye of how a light laid timber tramway should be. I've decided my brand new 'Heritage' 2-6-2 loco No:8 will be dubbed the 'Big Lokey' by the workers on my line, - which means that everything else has to be smaller. This is entirely practical since I don't have a lot of space for railway building. I like geared lokeys, but some of them were a bit on the big side and I don't really want to have one of the standard 'big three' (Shay, Climax, Heisler). I could build one of the classic New Zealand bush lokeys built by Price Engineering, but I don't want to tackle one of those just yet. So I decided it was going to have to be something essentially simple, not entirely common, maybe a wee bit obscure ......., BUT it did have to be small and run on two 4 wheel trucks. Then I found a picture of a Dunkirk Class B (rays of light burst thru the clouds to the sound of a full symphony orchestra). Wow, perfect was my immediate thought. Have a look for yourselves and I';m sure you'll agree. [img]http://locomotiveannie.homestead.com/files/fox-crainDunkirkB.jpg[/img] Isn't it a nice lokey? The mechanical layout is just the sort of thing I like too. [img]http://locomotiveannie.homestead.com/files/cylinder-back-patent-dwg.jpg[/img] [img]http://locomotiveannie.homestead.com/files/class-b-patent-dwg1.jpg[/img] Has anybody on the forum built a Dunkirk class 'B'? It looks like a perfect prototype for a small logging tramway and I'm sure a few more folk than me must think so too. Annie
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