E S Cox mentions that it was intended that the standards should have had outside roller bearings everywhere apart from driven,but it got in...
No european railways 1980 without WW2 . People wanted cars. Lorries was better/ cheaper for cargo. WW2 meant next to no petrol and rubber in...
Mr Cox was no admirer of Precursor,Experiments,George the fifths and Prince of Wales class. His main dislike was frame breaking and this can be be...
Another indication that powerfull ,two cylinder, part balanced, simple engines going fast, was not the real solution.
Beyer Peacock proposed a 2-4-2T for IOM in 1945. Idea was to go unwatered from Douglas to Ramsey. Ramsey line is closed but let us play they had...
A two-cylinder 9F doing 90 rotates 8.4 rev per second. A three-cylindered A4 did 8.82 and started to selfdestruct as did the two cylinder US made...
The french was very serious about locomotive max speeds. Both the US and French mikados had speed-recorders and the US 141R was allowed 100 km...
JDZ (Yogoslavia) Ordered three very well designed steam locomotive classes in 1929 Class 05 4-6-2 two cylinder and Class 06 2-8-2 two cylinder and...
As I read mr Cox, who originated the 2-8-2 scheme, it was Riddles that killed it preferring a 2-10-0. Both lather expressed regret that they did...
The LMS three-cylinder compound 4-6-0 from 1924.
My hero( mr Webb )had driving wheels cast centrifugal in steel. These springs will be piece of cake and X ray and ultrasonic control not impossible
Can the completed spring be machined from solid and why not?
Most likely steam by pass when drifting. Winterthur,Karl -Schultz and Trofimow are other names for same job. Best was the russian Trofimov but...
Mr Cox states that the BR clas5 were 50% balanced,but what the normal LMS`s had is probably unobtainable today.. Claims of BR class five doing...
Sure and makes it nicer on the footplate as the fore and aft movement is less than if there is noreprocicating balance as was the case with WD...
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