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QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith www.gearedsteam.com I checked out this link. Very interesting, thanks. Trouble is, I'm still not quite getting it. For the most part, I visualize a geared steam locomotive as something like a granny-geared 4 wheel drive. They appear to be built for low speed hill climbing, on curvey rails. The sound of these things must be like a suzuki motorcycle on steroids. But.....What makes them work better than a steamer on those types of lines?........Why couldn't the same type of set-up been adapted to mainline locomotives?.....Why only 2 or 3 cylenders? Why not a v-8 or something? Thanks
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith www.gearedsteam.com
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QUOTE: Originally posted by trainjunky29 One of the things that made them able to climb those big grades was that 100% of the locomotive weight was on the driving wheels. Also, the gearing down gave a small engine relatively high tractive effort (on some Shay's, four times what the engine could achieve had it been rigidly connected).
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