Starting-up the diesel outline loco

dewintondave · Post by **dewintondave** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:35 am

Here's my new baby. Chuffer not needed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK6Q2RrAL8I

Best wishes,
Dave.

Johnnie2sheds · Post by **Johnnie2sheds** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:53 am

Brilliant. Very Sentinelesque!

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:37 am

That sounds great!

What is it please?

Cheers,

Tom
RWLR

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:04 pm

I don't think I've been so confused in my life

From what I can tell, it's a steam loco in the diesel body shell, and the noise is coming from a steam motor?

DaveWatkins · Post by **DaveWatkins** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:33 pm

Brilliant, I doubt if many of this LBSC design were built back in the 1930's. Does it go backwards too?

dewintondave · Post by **dewintondave** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:48 am

It is a 1930's design by LBSC for an O gauge steam powered diesel outline loco. Perhaps diesels were starting to appear on the scene then. I scaled-up the design for 45 mm gauge, and increased the width a bit to match my LGB stock.

I've seen a picture of one other model made to the plans.

The loco has a large twin burner horizontal boiler up front. At the back in the cab there is a vertical single cylinder slide valve motor. It has a short stroke, and a larger bore. The motor drives the wheels by a worm gear. The steam is exhausted straight under the cab.

The flywheel is inaccessable, so there's a crank shaft extension front and rear which I plug the electric starter into. The motor has a slip eccentric and can run backwards too depending on which way the starter is going.

I am very pleased with the exhaust sound.

Best wishes,
Dave

Narrow Minded · Post by **Narrow Minded** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:37 am

It's mad and I love it!

LMS-Jools · Post by **LMS-Jools** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:16 pm

Narrow Minded:60853 wrote:It's mad and I love it!

I tend to agree tee hee.

Pretoria · Post by **Pretoria** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:06 pm

Why can't more disiesels be like this ???

Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:24 pm

Johnnie2sheds:60825 wrote:Brilliant. Very Sentinelesque! :)

Sentinal built steam lorries and Locos that looked like diesels but were normallt Vertical boilers in the cab

http://www.lner.info/locos/Y/y1y3.shtml

DVT Dweller · Post by **DVT Dweller** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:56 pm

Sir Clothem Cap:60860 wrote:
Johnnie2sheds:60825 wrote:Brilliant. Very Sentinelesque! :)
Sentinal built steam lorries and Locos that looked like diesels but were normallt Vertical boilers in the cab

http://www.lner.info/locos/Y/y1y3.shtml

They where built around the corner from our house, our house being built for the workers from Sentinel.

Stunning looking loco and the crankshaft answers that bit that had confused me

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