Locomotives? Of course! One even lives next door to me! Our locomotives http://history.rw.by/ Unfortunately, nothing interesting. Soviet locomotives and captured German.Are there still steam locomotives in Belarus?
To reduce the cost of assembly, I would have built two locomotives - one for myself, the other for sale.Plenty of 10.25" gauge in the UK, so it could be sold on there eventually.
This is not a problem.consider what it will weigh and how you will move it during and after construction
Cool model! Small. Elegant. You can make it more detailed than on video. But a similar model already exists. And this confuses me. But definitely this locomotive is worthy of embodying it.My choice, given my location, would be an A4.
Though German engineering school is close to me, but Amerkian locomotives are number 1. Power, strength, reliability. The articulated locomotives of the United States are perhaps the crown of a locomotive building. Challenger or "behemot"? I like the monster more like it.As I said to you before, my preference would be an American articulated because especially in a large size, such a locomotive would be VERY impressive. My own preference would be for a Big Boy or a Challenger because I think they look "cleaner" with less stuff hanging all over the locomotive, but that's just my opinion. While UP locomotives were built for speed (designed for a top speed of 90 miles/hr.) and Norfolk & Westerns were built for power (top speed of 50 to 60 mph), as large size models in the gauge you are contemplating, either one would have more speed than you would ever be able to use. At speed, a compound loco is harder on the track because of the "nosing" effect of the front engine with its large cylinders.
What really interests me is the speed of the locomotive. Speed is also scaled from the speed of a real prototype? In addition to the speed, there is probably a speed limit on the track (in connection with safety)?
No, you're wrong. This is a nonprofit project. The model will be built by the forces of my family and my friends. At the same time, such a locomotive can be an incentive for the development of the garden railway in Belarus. Therefore, we must very carefully approach the choice of the prototype.From what I remember from your messages, you would be building this not as an individual but as part of a team with access to a lot of commercial machinery.
Copper is good. For English locomotive - very good (authenticity).1. Is the boiler going to be copper, steel or the stainless system that is used in Australia? There are plusses and minuses to each of these.
For a large articulated locomotive - an exceptionally welded construction. Stainless steel for boilers.
Liquid fuel is very good, technologically, but ... I like coal.2. What fuel are you going to use?
Is the sliding bearings not suitable? So as on the original?3. Are you going to use ball and roller bearings throughout?
Transportation by parts with subsequent assembly. For me this is not a big problem.5. As someone else said, how are you going to transport this "beast?" Even for Big Boy in 3 1/2" gauge, the engine & tender weigh 300lb and are 8 feet long. If you do the math, for 10 1/4" gauge the same thing is going to be 3 times as long and weigh 27 times more.