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| Posted: Sat Nov 26th, 2016 05:22 am |
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pipopak
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Jose.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26th, 2016 06:20 am |
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NathanO
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You don't like 'Streamlining'?
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26th, 2016 10:05 am |
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jtrain
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I think that whoever designed the streamlining,
didn't understand aerodynamics.
As for the ugliness?
I think that loco can be topped.
Sure, the streamliner looks like a chop job,
but what about this:
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/belgian/belg1s2.jpg
A 2-2-2 steam locomotive from Belgium.
Looks like a tank locomotive with the tanks stripped off,
and coal bunkers on the pilot deck,
plus a cab with an enclosed back and an open front.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26th, 2016 03:58 pm |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26th, 2016 10:40 pm |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27th, 2016 12:49 am |
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jtrain
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Helmut,
Yeah, NPC No. 21 was ugly as sin, but that thing WAS quite innovative.
Camelbacks are another ugly duckling, but that's just one man's opinion, there are those that like the look of a center-cab steam locomotive.
--James
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27th, 2016 03:38 am |
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Helmut
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jtrain wrote:
Camelbacks .... there are those that like the look of a center-cab steam locomotive.
May Ross Winans bless you
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27th, 2016 05:44 am |
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oztrainz
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jtrain wrote:
I think that whoever designed the streamlining,
didn't understand aerodynamics.
As for the ugliness?
I think that loco can be topped.
Sure, the streamliner looks like a chop job,
but what about this:
A 2-2-2 steam locomotive from Belgium.
Looks like a tank locomotive with the tanks stripped off,
and coal bunkers on the pilot deck,
plus a cab with an enclosed back and an open front.
This one is actually probably a very early cab-forward,
fitted with a marine type boiler like the Northern Pacific #21.
The Italians also were running cab-forwards in the early 1900's.
Others got there well before Southern Pacific did with their AC's.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27th, 2016 06:13 am |
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pipopak
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Looks as it has been designed by a group of people that wouldn't talk to each other...
Jose.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27th, 2016 09:05 am |
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W C Greene
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Yep, those Camelbacks...
the fireman had to brave the elements while firing the boiler,
but he would be far less likely to get wasted when the main rod came un-done,
right under the engineer's seat! YIKES!!!
Woodie
BTW- I remember that there was an HOn3 kit for #21 some years back.
Anybody know of any models in HO or O scale?
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