Anatomy of a dinosaur

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Bealman

#30
August 15, 2015, 01:10:05 AM
Must get me a few of those. Me old ones don't go anyway.  :beers:
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

railsquid

#31
August 15, 2015, 01:14:42 AM
Quote from: PGN on August 14, 2015, 10:12:34 PM
Um ... which is the old, and which the new?

(They're a bit modern for my taste ... and all Diesels look alike to me  ;D )
It is kind of hard to tell... however the one on the left must be the newer version - the extra detailing gives it away

D1042 Western Princess

#32
August 15, 2015, 07:00:19 AM
Quote from: PGN on August 14, 2015, 08:15:26 AM

Oh, and a pedantic little point on correct terminology, folks ... the rods which couple the wheels together on steam locomotives and some diesels are COUPLING rods, not connecting rods. The connecting rods are the ones that run from the cylinders to the wheels or (on inside cylinder engines) from the cylinder to the axle crank. Always makes me cringe a bit to hear coupling rods referred to as connecting rods!

My copy of the British Transport Commission Handbook for Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen (1957) confirms this.
If it's not a Diesel Hydraulic then it's not a real locomotive.

PGN

#33
August 15, 2015, 10:11:29 AM
Wow. A book published in 1957 confirms that this makes me cringe? How prescient of them ... I wasn't even BORN in 1957  :D :P :laugh: :bounce:
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