[modeleng] Re: Steam loco configurations

Thank you for this reply Harry. As with all things, in respect of your
comment on the LBSC Virginia, it helps to know where to start, which I
simply didn't! I do now though .... <VBG> Since posting my request, I have
actually tracked down a scale drawing of a Roya Hudson, but it is a side
view only unfortunately and so open to too much interpretation however, but
it is a start at least, and could be highly "stylised" - being almost
reduced to a cartoon drawing! I think that I will start be leanring to walk
before trying to run, and do a search on the Virgina initially ....

Thanks again,

Tony.

PS, Looking at the Virginia, my wooden toy version really is very close in 
appearance, and so the tender should be ideal!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:34 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Steam loco configurations


> At 07:58 PM 8/28/07 +0100, you wrote:
>>I am currently making a wooden toy engine, in 4-4-0 configuration,
>
> Tony,
>      Quickly, the tender tank is not unlike some tanks in the UK.
> Rivetted steel, straight sided, rounded corners, and flared top plates
> (ie,
> coal rails).  Vintage tenders were typically built on a wooden frame
> covered by a wood plank deck upon which the tank was bolted.
>      The tender deck and the engine footplate were typically built to be
> flush although when laden with water and/or fuel there was often quite a
> difference in height as the tender sank on its springs.  Tanks could vary
> in length but were rarely more than about 60" high over the rails.
>      Wheels would almost always consist of two 4-wheel trucks/bogies and
> except in rare instances the solid wheels would not be more than 33"
> diameter.  Have you thought of having a look at the tender for the LBSC
> Virginia?  That might be appropriate for your purposes.
>
> Regards,
> Harry
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