A cool website

[jguess733]

For all you steam lovers, I found a site that will let you "build" your own steam loco. You chose you boiler pressure, driver diameter, piston stroke, and so forth. It will give you a read out of how much tractive effort you will produce and how fast your speed will go. I recomend checking it out.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/TractiveEffort.shtml

[Anonymous]

I've seen that. It's cool, but it's too bad you can't see the locomotive. Someone needs to make one where you can choose the wheel arangement, boiler, driver height, paint, ect.

[SilverSpike]

Interesting site, thanks for sharing.

- Ryan

[jlcjrbal]

I had picked up a few steam books form Barns and Noble and they just did not give me the details I wanted. That night I came across this site and was just overwhelmed... I returned all the books Great site

[Anonymous]

Well, i played with it a little. I came up with this:

Boiler Pressure: 390 PSI
Driver Diameter: 40"
Cylinder Diameter: 39"
Piston Stroke: 39"
Cylinders: 4
Tractive effort: 1068709 yep 1,068,709
# of axles: 214 thats right 214

Not much of a real engine, just wanted to see the max tractive effort i could get