[modeleng] Re: Winson Jubillee

Doug,

I believe you right about the funky looking valve gear on the switcher.  It
seems that someone told me that was what it was, but I done plumb fergot it.
Thanks for reminding me.  I wonder how many three cylinder locomotives there
were in the USA?  Not many I 'spect as I bet our machinists objected to
working on them.  I know I would have done so.

Jesse

 Jesse,
> The monkey motion you are referring to on the front of the switcher is
> the Gresley (sp?)
> valve gear.  Alco had the license for the gear over here, and the only
> other domestic
> examples I know of are the SP 4-10-2, and UP 4-12-2 on display east of
> LA.  The
> 4-10-2 in the Franklin institute has 3 sets of Walchearts to operate the
> valves.  I'm not
> aware of any other surviving 3 cylindered locos over here (aside from
> Willamettes and Shays).

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