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HO Scale "Big Bad John" B-D-B+B-D-B Bipolar Diesel Boxcab

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Posted by tstage on Saturday, January 6, 2018 4:01 PM

Okay.  How 'bout making a full mockup of the entire shell in that current scale then the exact same thing in HO.  That would be a start...

https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling

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Posted by ATSFGuy on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 6:19 PM

Still working on that mockup?

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Posted by NWP SWP on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 6:22 PM

Not at the moment now working on another project... I sent you a PM if you would like to discuss it...

Steve

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Posted by NWP SWP on Monday, January 22, 2018 5:31 PM

Here's another possible inspiration...

Steve

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Posted by Clutch_Cargo on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 1:07 PM

NWP SWP

Here's another possible inspiration...

 

That's two independent locomotives coupled together. CNR 9000/9001

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/Various/early_diesels.htm

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:38 PM

Clutch_Cargo
That's two independent locomotives coupled together.

And two of the very first practical mainline diesel locomotives in North America (or, really, anywhere).  Notable among many things for the use of relatively lightweight dirigible engines in an era when compression-ignition engines and their peripherals were generally too heavy for their horsepower even when giving full allowance for adhesion ballasting.

Baldwin had a relatively similar design (1500) at right around this time, and Clessie Cummins in his autobiography indicates some of the excitement in road-diesel development up to the late 1920s.  An important detail, though, is how very different the successful EMC/EMD "locomotive" designs were from these, and not incidentally how the whole of electric locomotive design switched within just a few years from heavy cast underframes to trucks and span bolsters...

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Posted by tedtedderson on Thursday, March 15, 2018 3:13 PM

Any updates on this project?  Seems like this is going to be a mean machine! 

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, March 15, 2018 3:56 PM

tedtedderson

Any updates on this project?  Seems like this is going to be a mean machine! 

T e d  

Oh boy.  ConfusedConfused

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Posted by maxman on Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:59 PM

richhotrain

 

 
tedtedderson

Any updates on this project?  Seems like this is going to be a mean machine! 

T e d  

Oh boy.  ConfusedConfused

Rich

This is like the Whack A Mole game.  Every couple days a new, figment of the imagination from an idle mind, mole is shoved up through one of the arcade game holes and everyone who should know better wastes time responding.

As someone else said, there are lawns out there that need mowing.

I'm sure there are contrary opinions.

 
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Posted by NWP SWP on Thursday, March 15, 2018 5:21 PM

I didn't dig up this thread! Right now I'm working on an A-B-A set of P42s.

Lawn business, joint chiefs (my parents) said I can't start a business or even get a learners permit to drive till graduation. So I am stuck till late April early may.

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Posted by tedtedderson on Thursday, March 15, 2018 5:36 PM

NWP SWP

I didn't dig up this thread! Right now I'm working on an A-B-A set of P42s.

Lawn business, joint chiefs (my parents) said I can't start a business or even get a learners permit to drive till graduation. So I am stuck till late April early may.

 

Nah this was my bad. I skimmed and missed the "I'm working on a different project" response. 

Lucky for me there's still a little snow and my grass is still brown! 

Live off the P's dime as long as you can!

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Posted by mbinsewi on Thursday, March 15, 2018 8:39 PM

tedtedderson
Live off the P's dime as long as you can!

Well, that's just wrong.  

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 15, 2018 8:48 PM

mbinsewi

 

 
tedtedderson
Live off the P's dime as long as you can!

 

Well, that's just wrong.  

Mike.

 

 

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