OK I've been lax in reviewing your vidio that I wyned about. It look's alsome nothing but the best as per usal.
Dave soon to have an Outdoor RR
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
"If you dream it the engine will come" - unknown
Toad
I really like the engine, and I appreciate the photos, esp the valve gear.
2 questions: I note there are 2 sand domes with a centered steam dome. I assume that was because you were building something prototypical?
Other question: Apparently the 'herky-jerky' was cured by adding pickups from the tender?
(Free question ) Have you ever tried flywheels to smooth out operation? Seems to me (in speculation) that a flywheel would tend to smooth out the roughness in some of the gear mechanisms. I'm also debating a huge capacitor across the power pack with a potentiometer for an adjustable 'bleeder' resistor to allow for slow starts/stops. Wonder if anyone else has gone down this road?
Les
Tom Trigg
ttrigg wrote:Vic: Just a quick guess, but if you build a "Big Joe" will it run on anything less than an R50?
Only if I build it to proto F scale
I figure if the Aristo Mallet needs 8 ft dia, that I could built it to that standard, as a young Donald Trumph said to John Lennon "all you need is cash"
Have fun with your trains
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If you have NOT figured out buy now this IS a JOKE your a idiot.
user="ToadFrog&WhiteLightn"] $10.00 - will get you 5x8 photo with seal$100.00 - will get you a 8x10 photo signed by Vic and seal$1000.00 - will get you 8x10 photo signed by Vic and seal with a Tee ShirtToad
I dunno, them seals might be a little tricky...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZibmYIcKo
Yeah get me the whole DVD set of them ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vsmith wrote:The other is my favorite apochrophylicly legendary long lost "Big Joe" atomic locomotive, built in the 1950's for the Trans Siberian service, a massive articulated Garret 4-12-12-4 + 4-12-12-4 fueled by a dry graphite reactor, which was a disasterous choice as it got so hot it melted the permafrost under the artic circle test track and triggering a meltdown causing the whole engine to sink into the superheated mud, disappearing forever. Please note the "Big Joe" exists today only in fiction and in legend. I would love to build a version of this maybe using a pair of Aristo Mallet's as the basis.http://gold.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Big%20Joe%20Model%20.pdfPlan of the "Big Joe" even if built as a 4-8-8-4 + 4-8-8-4 it would be a mighty impressive sight prowling the Fairplex
The other is my favorite apochrophylicly legendary long lost "Big Joe" atomic locomotive, built in the 1950's for the Trans Siberian service, a massive articulated Garret 4-12-12-4 + 4-12-12-4 fueled by a dry graphite reactor, which was a disasterous choice as it got so hot it melted the permafrost under the artic circle test track and triggering a meltdown causing the whole engine to sink into the superheated mud, disappearing forever.
Please note the "Big Joe" exists today only in fiction and in legend. I would love to build a version of this maybe using a pair of Aristo Mallet's as the basis.
http://gold.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Big%20Joe%20Model%20.pdf
Plan of the "Big Joe"
even if built as a 4-8-8-4 + 4-8-8-4 it would be a mighty impressive sight prowling the Fairplex
It doesn't look as you described... it looks like a 4-12-12-12-12-4 I don't see any trucks between the 4 sets of drivers... or am I confused?
YIKES! your right, I drew it up as a 4-12-12-0 + 0-12-12-4 Uber-Garrett, your correct!
I cant even keep my own Apochrophia correct
Apocrophia, a collection of information being of dubious origin, being of the base word: apocryphal
1: of doubtful authenticity : spurious2often capitalized : of or resembling the Apocrypha synonyms see fictitious - apoc·ry·phal·ly \-fə-lē\ adverb - apoc·ry·phal·ness noun
The "Big Joe" was related to me by a freinds old Ruskie grandpa, who told some very tall tales that would have made Baron Munchuesen dubious, but I loved the tale and havent forgotten it.
time for some changes.....
Changes afoot, converting to tank engine, the tender version is just too big to work on the layout. Cut over one inch off the rear boiler, re-epoxied the cab back on, added the fuel bunker, undercab framing next, then tanks last.
Rear beam added w/ Bachmann wide swing coupler
Steps added
Cab underside framing
Sidetank fabrication begun, these will be styrene sheathed
Sidetanks fleshed out of balsa and styrene sheathed
Next up, adding rivet strips, then painting
Painted, looks alot nicer than I ever hoped!
Still needs a Matte finish coat, weathering to follow...after decals
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