01-22-2019, 09:13 PM
Wayne:
The kit is Kitmaster; Airfix never reissued it. I built one in the early 60s which my sister disposed of when she cleaned out dad's house.
The standards are British OO, which is 4mm = 1 ft but runs on HO track.*
The prototype was the improved LMS class with the rotating coal bunker. There was a problem that the driver bearings were from an 0-6-0 class and inadequate.
Other story: the locos were to replace a pair of 0-6-0 s on long coal trains. The practice was that the loco pair would push the preceding train over the hump at Toton (?) yard and then follow it through. They did this with the Garratt, not thinking anything of it, until a pair of drivers came up through the cab floor.
(You mentioned that you were doing this when I saw you on a layout tour.)
* this is probably covered in a PhD thesis.
The kit is Kitmaster; Airfix never reissued it. I built one in the early 60s which my sister disposed of when she cleaned out dad's house.
The standards are British OO, which is 4mm = 1 ft but runs on HO track.*
The prototype was the improved LMS class with the rotating coal bunker. There was a problem that the driver bearings were from an 0-6-0 class and inadequate.
Other story: the locos were to replace a pair of 0-6-0 s on long coal trains. The practice was that the loco pair would push the preceding train over the hump at Toton (?) yard and then follow it through. They did this with the Garratt, not thinking anything of it, until a pair of drivers came up through the cab floor.
(You mentioned that you were doing this when I saw you on a layout tour.)
* this is probably covered in a PhD thesis.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.