I've got this huge Maxon Swiss motor about 22mm in diameter. Unfortunately there is no space for a flywheel. I guess DCC will solve that. The boiler itself is huge and there's definitely a lot of space for weight in it.
Should be an excellent puller.
Great answer, thank you!
Yes Sir, not many modelers are familiar with these and even less are modeling them. The great John Allen who created the legendary "Gorre and Daphedid" had a few on his layout. There were basically two companies which offered them; Franklin and Bethlehem. Some companies like Delaware and Hudson even had three axle boosters under a few of their tenders.
You're doing a fantastic job on that F-1! I look forward to seeing it when you complete it. I believe John Allen had at least three booster trucks. Gorre & Daphetid 34 and 35 each had one, and I think 27 had one off and on, but I can't seem to find a photo of 27 with the booster fitted, so I'm not sureYes Sir, not many modelers are familiar with these and even less are modeling them. The great John Allen who created the legendary "Gorre and Daphedid" had a few on his layout. There were basically two companies which offered them; Franklin and Bethlehem. Some companies like Delaware and Hudson even had three axle boosters under a few of their tenders.View attachment 202283
This is the builders photo of a brand new F-1 taken at Baldwin, taken from the Internet https://images.app.goo.gl/RfxnkXWpcR9vYePL7
...and you can see that i made the stack on the tender too short
Looks great! I'm really enjoying watching your progress on it.
Oh crap
!. I can explain some of it, but not all. On this particular model the piping is hard to figure out do to poor pictures available. The thing under the cab is the water injector. Locomotives always have two of them, one on each side. So there is a piping coming from the cab with steam to power up the injector and the steam propells the water from the injector toward the front of the boiler and you can barely see the valve hidden by the deck where water is shot into the boiler. Right above that valve is a sand box and the three pipes coming down from it are sand lines to throw sand under wheels when slipping or starting a heavy train. Sand box is that huge reservior behind the chimney. The three lines coming from under the cab and running just below the walkway (right side of the locomotive), are for the brake system. The main tank on the F-1 was on the left side of the locomotive:
That is super helpful! The sand tubes were about all I could figure out on my own.Oh crap
That is the huge torpedo like tank just above the driving wheels. Secondary tank is located under the front of the smoke box:View attachment 203051
You can just barely see it under the smoke box hidden behind the set of air compressors-those vertical things sitting behind the shields right in front of the smoke box. Air compressors were of course powered by steam and that adds more piping. On a model like that i can not reproduce all piping exaxtly because the boiler is screwed to the main frame and there's a need to separate assemblies. Getting back to that left side there you see more piping just above that main tank and it loooks like it goes back and forth, that's in order to cool the compressed air a little, sort of like a radiator, otherwise hot air would cause damage. Also on left side you see sand pipes coming down from sandbox just like on right side. Under the cab is the other injector with its associated piping; steam is released into injector and it pushes the water from tender into the boiler. Normally one injector is used and the other is used as a spare in case one fails. There is more piping on top of the boiler right in front of the cab, that device is the turret (sort of like distributor) and by turning nobs in the cab the steam from the boiler is used to power the devices i described. What i can't figure out are those two very thick pipes running forward from the turret and then turning diagonally to run under the walkway. They deffinitely run forward and i wonder if they power the compressors, all pictures are very dark in that area and i'll have to do more digging to figure out how they run under the walkway. This particular model will have another very thick pipe on the right side that will come from the boiler near where the cylinders are, that was a steam pipe to power the booster truck on the tender:View attachment 203052
On the picture above you can see that pipe starting just behind the cylinder block, running under the power reverser, making an "S" curve to run under the grate and then under cab, i didn't get to that pipe yet on my model. I hope that explains some of it a little. There is also a bunch of small piping at the front, on the side of the smoke box, i have no clue what that piping was for and the earlier F-1s; 401 and 402 didn't have that.
The piping on locomotives gets even more complicated when some models get different types of water heaters attached, like Elesco type. Elesco type was that cylindrical device either over the front top of the smokebox, or burried within the front of the smoke box. Either way it used steam to preheat water that was pumped from the water pumps. It then injected hot water into the boiler, making operation of steam locomotive more efficient. This Boston and Albany 2-8-4 is a good example: https://images.app.goo.gl/1TpPr8yuqcpjcnZNA
). I did however solder scale Faiveley pantographs for just such a project:
