> ack! it's a cricket!
Close, but not quite. The Cricket's prototype had two cylinders vertically
over the jackshaft, where the Thunder has fairly conventionally mounted
horizontal cylinders below the smokebox. (The Cricket is rather like a
parallel Shay cluster, for you Unix fans.)
There's an
Dave,
Betsy is not a Cricket. The Cricket is based on the Byers:
http://www.gearedsteam.com/byers/images.htm
Regards
Henner
At 1:03 PM -0800 1/17/05, Meinhold, Henner wrote:
One option would be "Betsy"
from the Madera Sugar Pine lumber company
ack! it's a cricket!
http://www.panyo.com/nss2002/images/91010001.jpg
\dmc
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^^^
Dave Cole
Gen'l Sup't: Grand Teton &
With our current donkey project seeing some light at the end of the tunnel
it is time to plan for the next live steamer. One option would be "Betsy"
from the Madera Sugar Pine lumber company
see
http://www.gearedsteam.com/other/images/madera_sugarpine_co-dwg-thunder.jpg
geared for low speed, ugl
