Nifty little steam train

Its so small and awsome, yet it looks powerful (in it's own right)...
...like the Rasengan! :p
I hope someone will make this for Trainz!
~TTT100~

EDIT: I found a huge bunch of videos of "Botchan" on YouTube! This one here is over 9 minutes long!
 
You know, for something that sounds like it's a subdivision of 4-chan (don't ask), it's rather cute.:D ;)
 
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Its so small and awsome, yet it looks powerful (in it's own right)...
...like the Rasengan! :p
I hope someone will make this for Trainz!
~TTT100~

EDIT: I found a huge bunch of videos of "Botchan" on YouTube! This one here is over 9 minutes long!

Neat videos! I like the way they turned the locamotive around - they picked it up!

I think there are some trains like this available on the DLS. Check out the 760mm gauge equipment.

John
 
Nope, you watch the music vid and you can tell it's not a diesel. It looks more likely to be compressed air powered. Could be wrong though. However, as to the pick up on the car, I've seen something similar to that before, but it's not for what you may think.

In situations where non electric trains share the same trackage as trams, sometimes you see this. (Especially on diesel locos) Basically, the pantograph or pickup doesn't do anything else beyond provide a contact for the signaling system. Meaning it just activates lights and such that prevent automobiles from crossing the line when the train is there.

That's also something you don't see often. The loco has it's own built in turntable. In the form of a plate that lowers, raising the loco off the ground and allowing the crew to turn it around.
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Nope, you watch the music vid and you can tell it's not a diesel. It looks more likely to be compressed air powered. Could be wrong though. However, as to the pick up on the car, I've seen something similar to that before, but it's not for what you may think.

In situations where non electric trains share the same trackage as trams, sometimes you see this. (Especially on diesel locos) Basically, the pantograph or pickup doesn't do anything else beyond provide a contact for the signaling system. Meaning it just activates lights and such that prevent automobiles from crossing the line when the train is there.

That's also something you don't see often. The loco has it's own built in turntable. In the form of a plate that lowers, raising the loco off the ground and allowing the crew to turn it around.

I read that somewhere else about the pantograph. I think it was about the Pacific Gas & Electric having trolley poles on the GP-9s. They used them to trip the signals.

That's interesting about the built-in turntable. So that's how they turned the loco around. ;)

@Steamdrivre - They do scuttle that little train around don't they. :)

John
 
It looks like this engine is diesel powered, probably a conversion model.
Sometimes it smokes like a proper steam engine and sometimes it doesn't. That's why I think the first car is converted for electric drive.
;) Let's get a group together to go see in person. We'll get it sorted out.

:cool: Claude
 
I think I figured out why Botchan doesn't smoke or "chuff."
According to Wikipedia...
In the steam locomotive era, tram engines had to comply with certain legal requirements, although these varied from country to country:
  • The engine must be governed to a maximum speed of 10 miles per hour (8 mph in the UK)
  • No steam or smoke may be emitted
  • It must be free from noise produced by blast or clatter
  • The machinery must be concealed from view at all points above 4 inches from rail level
To avoid smoke, the fuel used was coke, rather than coal. To prevent visible emission of steam, two opposite systems were used:
  • condensing the exhaust steam and returning the condensate to the water tank
  • superheating the exhaust steam to make it invisible
Thats what I found...
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Armstrong drive system.:D
There is a man at the back pushing the cars, then the other attendant goes to help. Apparently they don't weigh much, so one or two people can easly push them around.
Any suggestions for what rolling stock you would use for that? It's 1067mm gauge (42") so meter gauge would also look good in Trainz.

:cool: Claude
 
hmm. I thought that the guy at the front was controlling something. It really looked like he had a lever pulled. Then again that could have just been the brakes.

I think there's a couple of 4 wheel coaches on the DLS somewhere, but to be really perfect they'd have to be custom made.

Oh, there's an interesting little detail there that I noticed while watching the videos. Apparently, the tracks use spring switches. You can hear them "clank" when the train goes through them, but when it reverses, this doesn't happen.

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Listen closely when the coaches come near. you can hear a sound that makes me think of a very light motor operating.
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