QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton QUOTE: Originally posted by Poppa_Zit QUOTE: Originally posted by Kurn Speaking of red wheels,I've heard most foreign locos had them to show up cracks in them.Seems grease and oil would leach into the cracks,and the red wheels would show this at a glance.Anyone ever heard of this? You're close, but no cigar. If that was true, they would have done it here. Aside from aethetics, railroads painted steam locomotive TIRES white so any cracks would show up. It would only show up cracks in the paint.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Poppa_Zit QUOTE: Originally posted by Kurn Speaking of red wheels,I've heard most foreign locos had them to show up cracks in them.Seems grease and oil would leach into the cracks,and the red wheels would show this at a glance.Anyone ever heard of this? You're close, but no cigar. If that was true, they would have done it here. Aside from aethetics, railroads painted steam locomotive TIRES white so any cracks would show up.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Kurn Speaking of red wheels,I've heard most foreign locos had them to show up cracks in them.Seems grease and oil would leach into the cracks,and the red wheels would show this at a glance.Anyone ever heard of this?
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98 i think they should be repainted..since they are chinese steamers...i think they should be painted in WALMART red blue and gray..with a BIG yellow smiley face on the tender to go with all the other chines imports that flooding the wamart stores.... csx engineer
If there are no dogs in heaven,then I want to go where they go.
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Well, Sadly, most of todays population here wouldn't know the difference between a Challenge, a Hudson, or the Texas type vs and American....so leave them just like they are. Shoot, just enjoy the fact that they made it here, and have a use and a place to run. Ed
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Quentin
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QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C . Equally you could remove the smoke deflectors, but the skyline casing includes an external main steam pipe (as used on the prototype Lima Berkshire A-1, although that wasn't in a casing) so you should probably leave that in place. M636C
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
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