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Finally a steamer I want to model

Prototypes
#1

Found this on a Facebook post, hope the link works - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=456879127679489&set=a.154861237881281.37204.100000722164973&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf

#2

Well, Mark, I went for it but Facebook told me that content was unavailable. I wouldn’t mind looking over your shoulder at that lok… Oh dear, I’ve broken into German…:rolleyes:

#3

Sorry - even if logged in to FB it fails.

#4

ok lets try it this way

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#5

Way cool… Someone spent some time in Photoshop, but way cool. Someone needs to look up the DB on WWII armor plating. And the Sand domes do what?

#6

I think it’s been done. Some guy over on MLS was into all kinds of live steam steam punk type stuff…It was at least a couple of years ago but he did post pics of a live steam tank.

#7

Hmmm, not sure who the buider is…But it’s clearly a ‘tank’ locomotive.

#8

Glad I didn’t have to drive THAT thing around in VietNam…:wink:

#9
Ken Brunt said:
Glad I didn't have to drive THAT thing around in VietNam........;)
Loading *AND* stoking.
#10

It was a monster truck built in 1986 for crushing cars and monster truck show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-6rvEvc3IE&feature=player_detailpage

1:09 is another one
1:45

#11
Bob McCown said:
Ken Brunt said:
Glad I didn't have to drive THAT thing around in VietNam........;)
Loading *AND* stoking.
That's the "Loader" and "Stokers" job, not the drivers..........;)
#12

It’s Thomas, the Tank Engine …!

#13

Yea, zooming in, its clearly shopped, not one of the car crusher ones.

#14

Yes, it is Photoshopped… http://steampunkcostume.com/2011/11/11/steampunk-tank-photoshop/

#15

Definitely a chop job. I used to run the top half in that photo at the W, K&S RR in Kempton, PA, but that was 35 years ago now. Petulia was definitely top heavy, and you didn’t want to get the water sloshing around in her saddle tank too much. As long as you ran her with a little bit of common sense, she was a good-pulling engine.

Those caterpiller tracks may have helped the top heavy problem, but then she would have really torn up the track whenever she tried to pull a train. I think she is just fine as an 0-6-0st.

Oh yeah, we also had no provision for turning our locomotives, so the traditional engineer’s bandana became a coal dust filter when running bunker-first to Wanamakers. It also meant that the hogger had to run the locomotives as well with his right hand as with his left hand.

Have fun,
David Meashey

#16
Dave Meashey said:
Definitely a chop job. I used to run the top half in that photo at the W, K&S RR in Kempton, PA, but that was 35 years ago now. Petulia was definitely top heavy, and you didn't want to get the water sloshing around in her saddle tank too much. As long as you ran her with a little bit of common sense, she was a good-pulling engine.

Those caterpiller tracks may have helped the top heavy problem, but then she would have really torn up the track whenever she tried to pull a train. I think she is just fine as an 0-6-0st.

Oh yeah, we also had no provision for turning our locomotives, so the traditional engineer’s bandana became a coal dust filter when running bunker-first to Wanamakers. It also meant that the hogger had to run the locomotives as well with his right hand as with his left hand.

Have fun,
David Meashey


Good post, David!