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He wrote in the first instalment:

The prototype is Japanese C53 type heavy pacific locomotive with three cylinders. To return the project, it will be 1/8.4 scale model on 5 inch track gauge.

Best regards,
hudson

Hi, A drawing is available at: http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/w/images/Coronation6220_blueprint_side_detail_nose.jpg a picture of an outside cylinder (Duchess of Sutherland): http://yourmodelrailway.net/gallery/155/155_200403_260000000.jpg A photograph of the Duchess of Hamilton where you can se...

Hi, The Stanier pacifics are normal simple expansion locomotives.The clearance gauge for English railways did not permit using 2 cylinder locomotives for high power outputs. Why they are so loud I don't know. Generally French and German 4-cylinder locomotives were compound locomotives. There were a ...

I revert after looking at the subdirectory Lok im Bau (locomotives under construction):

http://www.balson.ch/4713.html

The narrow gauge Beyer-Garratt for 7 1/4 in gauge is really impressive, especially the short, fat
boiler!

Comments from Marty would be very welcome!

hudson

Balson AG was founded by the late Charles Ball and his son Charles. This firm is well known for high quality models.

The steam activities of the SLM were taken over by the DLM AG.You can find more information by making a google search "DLM AG".

hudson

The Kuhn slide is described in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhn_slide A very nice model showing this Kuhn slide is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T0iGO01e01w at approx 2 minutes. I do not know offhand of any publication showing the dimensioning of lifting arm and link,...

The steam locomotive roster of this railroad is available at:

http://orion.math.iastate.edu/jdhsmith/term/slbrefs.htm

hudson

Model built by Arnaldo Bottan, Brazil I found yesterday the following videos Portuguese spoken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFqdSN-f4E 5JFqdSN-f4E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fml-xuSKtMs fml-xuSKtMs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWew0jvuePw OWew0jvuePw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3MrIRRI...

New Direct Link: https://ia700303.us.archive.org/28/items/locomotivedicti00assogoog/locomotivedicti00assogoog.pdf Sorry for the inconvenience. Best regards, hudson NB Checked the link, it works for me. Another way would be to go on the first mentioned link to HTTPS,click on it, then a new page with ...

I do not have a Tormach CNC mill. Recommend you to check youtube especially JohnGrimsmo's channel a knife maker in Canada using this mill. There were discussions on the Practical Machinist forum which might be very helpful. There is also a Tormach forum on CNC Zone. It also depends what you want to ...

The Locomotive Dictionary of 1906 contains several drawings for trailing trucks,
see pages 453-455

http://archive.org/details/locomotivedicti00assogoog

Hope this information will be helpful.

Best regards,
hudson

Hi, You could try: https://www.yousendit.com/ or http://www.mailbigfile.com/ There are other similiar services available. The two services mentioned above send the recipient of the file the link for the download. Alternatively: http://www.senduit.com/ or http://www.blindcode.com/ With these services...