Nooooooooo! Noooooooooooooooo!
I’m calling the The-Last-Thing-I-Need-Is-Another-Shay police!
Ahhh yeas…a $ truck Shay. When I built mine the three trck Shay hadn’t come out yet, so the biggest problem was sourcing two rear facing sliding shafts with universals. At the time you had to get those off broken crankshafts. The Engine driveline and trucksa are really all I used, I scratchbuilt the frame and everything above that. I can prolly dig up some pics if anyone is terribly interested…
I’m in
" Rooster " said:
I’m in
terested. (Also.)
I’m interested …
I had never seen a 4 truck Shay until now. Are there any 1:1 Shays like this still in existence?
From Wiki:
In 1903, Lima could claim that it had delivered the “heaviest locomotive on drivers in the world”, the first 4-truck (class D) Shay, weighing 140 short tons (120 long tons; 130 t). This was built for the El Paso Rock Island Line from Alamogordo, New Mexico to Cox Canyon, 31 miles (50 km) away over winding curves and grades of up to 6 %. The use of a two-truck tender was necessary because the poor water quality along the line meant that the locomotive had to carry enough water for a round trip.
Classes
Approximately 2770 Shay locomotives were built by Lima in four classes, from 6 to 160 tons between 1878 and 1945.
- Class A: two cylinders, two trucks. Weights between 6 and 24 tons.
- Class B: three cylinders, two trucks. Weights between 10 and 80 tons.
- Class C: three cylinders, three trucks. Weights between 40 and 160 tons.
- Class D: three cylinders, four trucks. Weights of 100 and 150 tons.
Note: Two 15 ton Shays were built with two cylinders and three trucks.
Twenty Class D shays were built. They were no more powerful than Class C, but had greater fuel and water capacity, resulting in improved adhesion.
Four Shays were built left-handed, all special ordered for the Sr. Octaviano B. Cabrera Co., San Luis de la Paz, Mexico.
No mentions of any operational or static 4 truck Shays.
Dennis
That is just patently weird looking!
Greg
There are 2, 4 truck shays for sale on Ebay right now.
Go to Ebay and copy and paste this in to the search. Logging Shay - custom weathered - 4 Tracks, DCC, smoke, sound, lights - G scale
I say go for it. You will have a really unique model.
I always thought it would be neat to build a Yahs.
Yahs=Shay running in reverse! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Joe, or a backward Shay. Or as Dennis says, left handed.
David Maynard said:
Joe, or a backward Shay. Or as Dennis says, left handed.
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David Maynard said:
I always thought it would be neat to build a Yahs.
Anybody remember John Allen’s Yahs for his railroad?
As long as we’re on the subject of locomotives with extra trucks…what the heck is this little devil? and I’ll be nobody’s ever modelled it. Can you imagine the radius you need to run it?
Bob McCown said:
Paging Bart Salmons! Bart Salmons to the forums ASAP, please.
Now you are paging Rooster to the forums ASAP, please.
John Passaro said:
As long as we’re on the subject of locomotives with extra trucks…what the heck is this little devil? and I’ll be nobody’s ever modelled it. Can you imagine the radius you need to run it?
Oh yes John. That fantasy locomotive would sure be a monster to build. But who would have curves large enough for it to actually run?
Strangely enough, I have wanted to convert a Bachmann 3 Truck into one, not sure if such a thing existed in NG though.
Someone has had the same idea and done just that: