Frisco took delivery of a group of 2-10-0 steam locos which had very wide driver tires because they were known as Russian Decapods because that was the original destination for them.
Dave Engle --- On Sun, 7/7/13, Paul Vaughn <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul Vaughn <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Wheel Aizes To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, July 7, 2013, 12:55 PM All: The real RRs use different wheel sizes. There is a 125 ton Shay in Shelton, WA that has 7.5" wheel width as I measured them my self! That works to be a code 117 wheel width in S. So Proto that! Paul Vaughn From: richgajnak <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 7:33 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Wheel standards --- In [email protected], "Willam Fraley" <wjfraley@...> wrote: > > S Scale Modelers, > > To run code 88, 93, 98, 110, 125 or whatever on our rolling stock, is that > really prototypical? > > I know they run on a variety of rail sizes, but wheelsets? > > I would be interested in knowing if all of our real railroads run different > wheel sets on their equipment? > > "S"imply a curiosity! > > Bill (FRaley) > That's because the protoype is the prototype and modeling is subject to interpretation and never the trains shall meet. Rich G(ajnak) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
