David: Thanks for the info
 
Paul Vaughn
 

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 From: David Engle <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Wheel Aizes
  
  
 
I remember being told years ago that they had 7-inch wide treads.

Dave Engle

--- On Sun, 7/7/13, Paul Vaughn <[email protected]> wrote:


>From: Paul Vaughn <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Wheel Aizes
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Date: Sunday, July 7, 2013, 3:31 PM
>
>
>  
>Hi Bill: that just supports my contension that Proto anything is a bunch of 
>hooy. Thanks for sharing the photo. Is there anyone close to the loco that 
>could measure the wheel width on the 2-10-0? I would like to know. 
>  
>Thanks 
>Paul Vaughn  
>
>________________________________
>From: scale S only <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected] 
>Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 12:44 PM
>Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Wheel Aizes [1 Attachment]
> 
> 
>[Attachment(s) from scale S only included below]  
>Hi Paul -- 
>  
>Don’t forget the regauged  Russian 2-10-0s where the driver centers remained 
>at a 5’ gauge and wider tires were applied with the flange set inward to the 
>4’ 8-1/2” gauge of the US.   This would mean that the tire width has to be at 
>least 1-3/4” wider than the “standard”.   This caused trouble with the 2-10-0 
>that traveled to the Illinois RR museum when it crossed a self guarding frog 
>and the wheels climbed up and over the raised part of the frog.   The 2-10-0 
>in Saint Louis (photo) was not measured, but you can see in the photo how far 
>beyond the railhead the drivers extend, as opposed to the tender and lead 
>truck wheels. 
>  
>Have fun!
>Bill Winans 
>--------------------------------- 
>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
> 
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