[modeleng] Re: Visit to Houston, now Steam turbines

Yes, those two ships are powered by turbines, and in
comparison with the "uppers-and-downers", are quite
petite.  In fact, if I remember correctly, the
reduction gears were actually larger than the turbines
themselves.  I have always wanted to do a scale model
turbine, but I have never felt that I had the skill to
do a job like that.

Al Messer

--- Jesse Livingston <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Glad you have enjoyed your visit, John.  Wish you
>  could stick around longer, at least long enough to
> pop
>  over to Wilmington, North Carolina and see a REAL
>  battleship, that is, one that has 16 inch guns--the
>  USS North Carolina.
> 
>  Al Messer, the transplanted Tarheel
> 
> Yeah Al, that ragged rustbucket of an old ship at
> Wilmington has a lil' old 
> turbine in it I betcha.  Nothing near as nice to
> look at as those big 4 
> cylinder triples in the TEXAS.  Looking at a turbine
> is sort of like 
> watching "diesels" run around the rails at MSLS! The
> USS Alabama has a 
> turbine also or so I have been told and if Auntie
> Fern hadn't got hot 
> walking the Alabama's deck one summer day,  I would
> have wasted my time 
> going down in there to see a big round steel barrel.
> 
> I am happy that John found some nice things to look
> at out in Houston.  BTW: 
> Fred Rorex is the one that provided me with the HALS
> site to send to John.
> 
> Jesse the REDNECK
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