Pajoma Thanks Harold - there is so much 30" modelling its great to see some of the real thing still going. What a great sound that loco had. Cheers.
Thanks Harold - there is so much 30" modelling its great to see some of the real thing still going. What a great sound that loco had. Cheers.
The locomotive is a Finnish version of a Brooks Catalog locomotive:
It is comparable to the On30 BLI C-16. When that model came out I was informed it was a "toy" by the "knowledgeable". Nice to know that there is "almost" a prototype for the BLI loco.
The On30 BLI C-16 with a Bachmann On30 tender shell on the BLI tender frame.
Harold
Hope you have good anti-malware software if you clicked on the Kiguchi video
Ver-ry interesting. Did you notice the outside Stephenson valve gear? (2 cams where the eccentric crank would usually be on the main crankpin.)
The associated links were interesting, too - even if not rail-related (Kiguchi-san is cute - but too young for my son and too old for my great-grandsons.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Found these short video's on the internet:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4yht7s-QoI&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GENdvQRgEUI&feature=relatedHarold