Mike, as I read in the books the right measurement for the drivers would be 68" but my TRIX Big Boy's drivers are just 18.6mm in diameter - if I did no ...
First, the cabooses. The Train Cellar owner told me that his information was for the cars to come in February. I'll post here as I can't afford the engine...
Greetings! My guess that the flanges on Big Boy and the cars will be to RP-25 standard, if not to European NEM standard. With NEM standard, the equipment will...
My Christmas present to myself was OMI HO scale UP 250 ton crane and a converted passenger boom car. Now I need pictures. Anyone know of websites or magazine...
Florian Griessenboeck Florian Griessenboeck writes: but my TRIX Big Boy's drivers are just 18.6mm in diameter - if I did no mistake, that would be almost 64"....
The problem here is the size of flanges. If the wheels are made to the correct diameter the the flange size would force them to space the wheels to far a part....
Come on, Mike. You and I have too many steam locos to not understand the huge RP-25 flanges (as compared to the real world) will not allow exact scale size ...
Gary Binder writes: Drivers, it is the fate of mass-produced steam to be stuck with slightly undersized drivers. Mostly due to the fact that our flanges (even...
Stephen Solombrino says: Come on, Mike. You and I have too many steam locos to not understand the huge RP-25 flanges (as compared to the real world) will not...
See, we agree on a lot here. I haven't measured the P2K 2-8-8-2 as it look great to me. I'm glad to see it seems to be in range. I feel encouraged about the...
Mike, Steve and others After all that I can say so far, that Big Boy is going to be the Champion of any pulling contest. It would be nice if you veteran...
My method of determining practical train length was based on the lengths of my staging tracks. On my ultimate layout which was a 12-ft X 30-ft walk-in...
Alfred A Fickensher Jr
alfickjr@...
Jan 1, 2002 11:09 pm
1980
Anyone have or know of good sources, print or pixel version:-), of photos and information about UP's 2-8-0s? I just got a couple of the new N scale Bachmann...
First of all, what's this steam thing. If steam was any good, the real railroads would still be using steam engines. I model modern UP, with lots of Kato...
Back in early July 2001, thre was a discussion about the two-tone gray Challengers on UP. I did some research in the various UP steam bokks that I have and...
Bill Meiners writes: First of all, what's this steam thing. If steam was any good, the real railroads would still be using steam engines. Hmmm. Without going...
Peter: "Emil Albrecht's Union Pacific Small Steam Power" has many good photos of the 2-8-0's and many atmospheric photos. The book was published in 1985 by ...
... railroads would still be using steam engines. Bill, let's make a deal. You don't question our beloved steam and I don't call your era the colorful age of...
Well over the years I've tried to accumulate 2-8-0 photos. Many were bought from photo dealers like Jack Wolff (Cheyenne, WY), Tom Klinger (Wheat Ridge, CO),...
... If you come to Utah, you can see one in operation. Its on the Heber Valley Railroad. It is UP 618. It will be operating during the Olympics to carry...
Larry: Works OK for me this morning. Try http://www.abebooks.com/. Gary's suggestion of Klinger et al is one I should have thought of. Is there a Web site for...
... My documentation says only 1000 class HK-70-1 were built by ACF in 1947. It also says there were 1950 of class H-70-1 built by Pressed Steel Car in 1948....
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