Railcar Articulation?

[FoxtrotZero]

I was coming up with an Idea (A Delta-Class Rail Engine, to be specific, but that only has meaning to me) and i came up with a question.

The question is Articulation. If you can articulate railcars. And normally, this would be accomplished simply by multiple cars. However, I wanted to accomplish it with an Engine. Its not something i'm fully sure I want to do, but if i do, I want to know if it can be done.

I was planning on doing it for a monstrosity of a Steam Engine i've been thinking about, and (if articulated) it would have three sections (including the tender, which i don't know if counts as a seperate car or not).

Anyway, if this is by any stretch of the imagination possible, it could open up new possibilites (if not already done).

I can't exactly think why you would need an articulated car, but if it can be done, SOMEONE will think of a use for it, even if it's just making a car with the capacity of two.

--Fox

 

[fran1]

I think you mean something similar to a beyer-garrett. Water tank on 1 bogey, boiler+cab in the centre, tender at the rear. The driving wheels are under the tank and tender. There are 2 on the dls or have a look on u tube.

 

[American_Connections]

Articulation

I made my 2-6-6-6 locomotives as three different sections, independent of each other, to be connected togeather to make the complete locomotive; this does not include the tender, as it is acually a seperate car. The front carrage and boiler attaches driver bogeys and the front carrage section also attaches the leading truck; then the trailing truck attaches to the boiler section. I also had to make the rear coupler a seperate section for proper tracking to connect the tender's coupler. By having two seperate section the locomotive it self give varying wheel slip and a very distictive sound, just would be with two sets of drivers.
You can check then out at http://ac-monkeywrench-models.yolasite.com/trains.php

 

[whitepass]

AT&SF had some 2-10-10-2's with an articulated boiler, they did not work will or long. A lot of articulated passenger cars, trolleys, and fright cars have been made. All locos must be under 150 feet(maybe less) to go around curves.

 

[FoxtrotZero]

I'm way off track here (oh, gawd, that was a pun).

I know things like 2-6-6 and what not refer to wheel arrangements, but i'm not sure what they mean. Someone want to point that out and i'll be in the clear.

Anyway, there were two train ideas I had.

The first one has a two cab system. Forward cab, which has an articulation to the wheels supporting the front end of the boiler, with a service way down the side of the boiler to the rear cab, which is actually mounted to the boiler (engineering).

The tender, narturally containing water and coal, could theoretically be a seperate cart, but that could also be articulated to the rear cab for the hell of it.

I also came up with another idea, but that one is less important, and is sort of still floating around my head.


A third idea i had was for a steam-type train. Steam control, steam look, but it doesn't actually use coal (and doesn't have an actual tender), therefore not using a tender per se, but having something that looks like two GATX tankers on a single platform, articulated behind the boiler (one for fuel, one for water).

I'm not even sure if TRS '04 can pull all of this off, but i want to know what is possible and what isn't. Needless to say, these are rediculously out-of-the-box ideas.

--Fox

 

[RooRocz]

I'm way off track here (oh, gawd, that was a pun).

I know things like 2-6-6 and what not refer to wheel arrangements, but i'm not sure what they mean. Someone want to point that out and i'll be in the clear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyte_notation

Anyway, there were two train ideas I had.

The first one has a two cab system. Forward cab, which has an articulation to the wheels supporting the front end of the boiler, with a service way down the side of the boiler to the rear cab, which is actually mounted to the boiler (engineering).

The tender, narturally containing water and coal, could theoretically be a seperate cart, but that could also be articulated to the rear cab for the hell of it.

's been thought up before... for more information, go here.

I also came up with another idea, but that one is less important, and is sort of still floating around my head.


A third idea i had was for a steam-type train. Steam control, steam look, but it doesn't actually use coal (and doesn't have an actual tender), therefore not using a tender per se, but having something that looks like two GATX tankers on a single platform, articulated behind the boiler (one for fuel, one for water).

I'm not even sure if TRS '04 can pull all of this off, but i want to know what is possible and what isn't. Needless to say, these are rediculously out-of-the-box ideas.

--Fox

...what? You mean an oil-fired locomotive? It's been done many times before.

 

[FoxtrotZero]

I know alot of radical designs have been thought of before. The question is how many of them have been included in Trainz?

 

[Tokkyu40]

The Beyer-Peacock Quadraplex hasn't been done. Can you imagine a Mallet-Garrett on your layout?

Claude

 

[barn700]

The Quad has been made, I have most of the artic locos for the US scene, check out my website for US Yellowstone, N&W Y6, N&Y A, ATSF 2-10-10-2, Erie Triplex, Garratts, Mallets and the UK LMS and LNER for Garratts (most were made in UK)

 

[motorbreath]

I made my 2-6-6-6 locomotives as three different sections, independent of each other, to be connected togeather to make the complete locomotive; this does not include the tender, as it is acually a seperate car. The front carrage and boiler attaches driver bogeys and the front carrage section also attaches the leading truck; then the trailing truck attaches to the boiler section. I also had to make the rear coupler a seperate section for proper tracking to connect the tender's coupler. By having two seperate section the locomotive it self give varying wheel slip and a very distictive sound, just would be with two sets of drivers.
You can check then out at http://ac-monkeywrench-models.yolasite.com/trains.php

Do you have a thread with better screen shots of your payware locos?