Some info about a really big locomotive...

[Ferrous]

No, more like this: http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Big Joe Model .pdf

This thing was almost built, but Soviet restrictions on materials and stuff like that prevented it.

HOLY FUDGE!!

THAT'S HUGE!!

And they were going to build it? What exactly were they going to be hauling with it? A moderately sized city?

 

[Spawn_of_Chaos97]

At least the boiler's big enough to power it all...XD

 

[lornyk5]

My god that thing is a monster, leave it to the soviets to come up with something like that.

 

[AndreaLuigi]

Another improbabile locomotive: the articulated boiler project (Germany 1944)

 

[Swordfish]

A very nice looking engine, but the second tender is useless: How should the coal be shoveled to the engine?

Regards

Swordfish

 

[AndreaLuigi]

Coal? Think about oil and water and you'r in.

 

[RooRocz]

Another improbabile locomotive: the articulated boiler project (Germany 1944)

And Santa Fe, 1915:

 

[Tokkyu40]

A very nice looking engine, but the second tender is useless: How should the coal be shoveled to the engine?

Regards

Swordfish

I would have a mechanical stoker feeding coal from the rear tender to the front.

Claude

 

[AndreaLuigi]

Haemmm... I don't understand you soo much, dear steam-addicted... A couple of pipes an the story can work without soo much hard work.
And in this way it is possible to have more tenders connected, as much as you need.
Whell... the idea of a multitender stocker is intriguing, anyway... Someone knows how big the pipe for such a stocke could have been? I still have the coal tender somewhere...

 

[Tokkyu40]

Check the plans for the newer engines like the 4-8-4. Most of them had mechanical stokers. The fire box was too big to feed with a shovel.
I saw one once in person (disassembkled at the streetcar museum in Parris, California). I don't remember exactly, but I think the pipe for the stoker was something like 6 inches(15cm). Maybe 8 inches.

Claude

 

[robbiehanson]

Stokers work on the archimedes screw principle...there's one at the local railroad museum in a Union Pacific Big Boy. It's approximately 12-15" in diameter...rather large, but it's a large engine!

 

[Billegulla]

The biggest giveaway is the parallax of the driver sets. Note the difference between sets 1 and 2, and then note that 2 and 3 are identical, which they certainly shouldn't be.

Bill.

 

[Klinger]

Here is the new big bad boy on the block...at least for any HO scale modeler....now i need to find a way to come up with $500....

http://www.mthhotrains.com/news.asp

 

[lornyk5]

I have been drooling on my keyboard looking at that model also Klinger.:mop:

 

[Norfolkwesternman]

i am already planning on receiving it in the mail!

 

[spiffy101]

You don't even want to know of the steam locomotives devised in my mind.

 

[Klinger]

actually, your wrong, I would love to see the Crazy Ideas people come up with....just because

 

[spiffy101]

actually, your wrong, I would love to see the Crazy Ideas people come up with....just because

Well, let me give you an idea.

A 6-10-10-10-10-10-8 with a large centipede tender.
Fuel - Water with re-condensing system fit on funnel
Firebox - Small amount of contantained plasma to heat fire box.
Elephant ears, quad stack

 

[Ferrous]

Hoo boy, now THAT'S what I call BIG!!

Love to see somone with an artistic streak (or really fast gmaxing skillz) sketch up a representation of that!

 

[spiffy101]

Hoo boy, now THAT'S what I call BIG!!

Love to see somone with an artistic streak (or really fast gmaxing skillz) sketch up a representation of that!

Thats one of ....15 super engines with all sorts of impossible, but cool characteristics.