*Fox clasps his paws over his ears and goes running from the room screaming about some odd pain between the ears...!*
Check the Masterclass '02 items on mylargescale.com for lots of info on Mason Bogies. Unless a lot of people are really off base the Bogies are single Fairlies with a few improvements. The two inventors conversed with each other and made improvements to their own locos based on the others work. They were all simple engines and a single fairlie is a one-ended device. ;] The overhead lifting bar was done for the earliest walscherts<sp> valved locos to minimize any errors involved with the bogie going through curves. The Stephenson's valves locos didn't have this. :] Interesting story overall. :) Trot, the fox who's got his nose in multiple net.places... On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Keith Taylor wrote: > I think you've stated the Mason Bogey question fairly, but to an old Fogey > it seems that a Fairlie is not a Phoney Bogey but a fairly funny Fairlie > Simple, simply! Is a Fairlie Double bogey a fairly simple Mason Double > Fairlie Bogey? And just how many seashells did she sell by the seashore, and > did they use a Mason Bogey to ship them to the shore?! > Keith Taylor, who now has confused himself even more than before! /\_/\ TrotFox \ Always remember, ( o o ) AKA Landon Solomon \ "There is a >\./< [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ third alternative."
