Not necessarily--it would depend on whether the outside drivers had some wiggle-room under the cab and up to the cylinders to respace the journals in the frame. Even P/48 drivers in O scale have flanges that are oversize (just rather less than standard O ones), requiring some compromise on spacing. I doubt even large scale/"G" (and F and all the other rubber scales at that end of modeling) could quite use exact scale driver flanges, as our model curves are so much tighter than prototype.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > Okay Jim, a sick, deviant but curious mind needs to ask--what changes in > the length of engine is required to make room for those flanges. In > other words would SHS have had to lengthen the engine if all the drivers > had flanges? > Bob Werre > raisinone wrote: > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, JGG > > KahnSr <jacek...@...> wrote: > > > the lack of flanges...<snip> a common compromise for scale model > > locomotives <skip> > > > > Just as there are examples of prototype steam locomotive's having > > drivers with out flanges; there are several S scale steam locomotives > > that have all drivers flanged and operate just fine. > > > > It is a combination of understanding minimum radius curve requirements > > and engineering during design and building. > > > > Jim Kindraka [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
