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Offline ysi_maniac

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Locomotives
« on: May 30, 2022, 08:36:41 PM »
Toying with Big Boy and Southern Pacific class GS-4 4449 type aka Golden State

1st and 2nd are the real things

3th is 4449 with  Big Boy config, a huge locomotive

4th is Big Boy lightly steam lined

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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2022, 01:19:47 AM »


CFBV
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2022, 05:06:55 AM »
 Just what railroads need or perhaps not.
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2022, 06:12:21 AM »
Questions:

1. Only 9 traction wheels?
2. What is the turning radius?

Otherwise I want one.
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2022, 06:29:22 AM »
Snowpiercer ?
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2022, 09:20:48 PM »
Blue Train 8) :-\

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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2022, 09:23:04 PM »
Talgo truck

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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2022, 09:27:26 PM »
Non electrical alternatives to TGV locomotives.

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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2022, 01:38:19 AM »
Train from Man in the High Castle series:





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And video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ih8G8N7e6g
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2022, 10:31:21 AM »
Quote from: GTX_Admin on June 01, 2022, 01:38:19 AM
Train from Man in the High Castle series: ...

I don't know the series but I like the look of that train. Less sure about the armament ... so decided to 'deNazify' it.
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2022, 10:53:35 PM »
The only sensible guns on it were the turrets, the forward firing guns would be next to useless.
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2022, 01:31:29 AM »
Short versions of known SNCF electric locomotives , that apear on top of each image.



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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2022, 02:50:13 AM »
How about racing locomotives:



More here
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2022, 04:51:18 AM »
Nifty  :smiley:
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2022, 09:46:08 PM »
Grosser Junge

What if Big Boy config applied to german BR42?



Top, BigBoy; center, Grosser Junge; and bottom, BR-42
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2022, 06:06:44 PM »
One vision of Soviet Atomic Train. See track gauge :o :blink:

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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2022, 01:32:42 AM »
Wow!
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2022, 08:36:02 AM »
They must have captured Hitler's plans for a train on super-wide track. :-\
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2022, 03:56:04 PM »
This different design is marked as Soviet Atomic Train too. Track gauge looks huge, only two floors, ... but those rods connecting wheels looks steam. ???

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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #19 on: June 19, 2022, 05:56:54 AM »
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #20 on: June 19, 2022, 07:54:57 PM »
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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2022, 01:40:55 AM »
Comparing X12 with Big Boy



Perhaps some of you can help me:

1. I assume X12 is an articulated locomotive. In this drawing I see just an articulation between main locomotive and the cooling car.

2. Is it possible for head piece to be supported by three bogies? Should it be another articulation? Where? ahead control area? Between control area and the reactor?

3. What is the steam generator in control area? Is it the generator to heat the train (mentioned in text)?

Thank you in advance.
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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2022, 08:32:23 PM »
Santa Fe atomic locomotive, compared with X12 design.  :smiley:

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Re: Locomotives
« Reply #23 on: June 13, 2023, 06:18:41 AM »
I acquired a reference book on the varied trubine locomotives used by the Union Pacific.  The front of those atomic-powered locomotives resembles the Steam Turbine locomotive that GE produced in the 1945-46 timeframe and which were tested by at least the Union Pacific and the Great Northern but not purchased by either or by any other tester.
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