[modeleng] Re: Mallets - am I missing something
- From: Jeff Dayman <jeffdayman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:46:45 -0500
Sorry, should have been addressed to Rich, not Ron.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Dayman" <jeffdayman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [modeleng] Mallets - am I missing something
> Hi Ron,
>
> I believe you are correct, the rear engine was rigidly mounted to boiler
> and frame on these Baldwin Mallets and only the front engine and frame
> pivoted. (and most if not all Mallets, as far as I know). Pivot of front
> engine on the Baldwin logging 2-6-6-2's was between last and middle
> drivers of the front engine. The rear engine had a saddle built as part of
> the cylinder casting which the boiler rested on, midway from front to back
> of the boiler. By the way, many of the Baldwin Mallets were not
> compounded, but had two sets of high pressure engines exhausting either to
> atmosphere via the stack or to the water tanks for some condensing
> effect/water conservation. By definition, some purists would argue that
> only a compound can be called a true Mallet type. (but that's nitpicking
> in my opinion)
>
> Bachmann may have made the back engine pivoted on their models to allow
> use on tighter radius track in garden railways. (Artistic license or
> butchery / sacrilege, you can decide)
>
> Cheers Jeff Dayman
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R.L. Roebuck" <rlr20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 1:14 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Mallets - am I missing something
>
>
>> Hi there All,
>>
>> I was just having a bit of a surf on the new, and came across this page:
>>
>> http://www.gscalecentral.co.uk/the-bachmann-2-6-6-2-logging-mallet
>>
>> In it we are shown a model of a mallet, but in the 4th picture down, we
>> are shown the on the model the rear set of drivers appears to pivot as
>> well as the front set.
>>
>> Am I missing something: I thought on a mallet only the front set pivotted
>> (about a point between the two sets of drivers I assumed)?
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>
>> Rich.
>>
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