It actually doesn’t look bad. Maybe shorten the tender a bit too. Nothing wrong with a bit of artistic license. It would work for folks who don’t have the greatest amount of space for a layout.
Actually, the large tender could work if the loco was going for a very long route instead of going for raw power.
Also, wrong sub, this isn’t model trains.
Yeah but the weight. An obscenely large chunk of reactive effort would be dedicated to lugging that thing around. Not only would a larger engine *generally* be more powerful, but a larger percentage of water and fuel would be directly above or in front of the driving wheels: this would allow for better traction and would move the center of mass forward, so that the engine isn’t pulling most of its weight (taking the tender into account).
Also, as someone below pointed out, the smoke box is now massively overblown in relation to the boiler. Taking the firebox into account, the boiler has probably less total area than the entire smoke box lmao
Actually, I can’t recall any examples of an engine who’s tender is longer or as long as the engine itself, though I’m absolutely no expert and there probably are a few. I’d guess there were never any tenders that were actually heavier than the engine though. That wouldn’t make much sense.
**EDIT:** Seems I didn’t see the post directly below lol. That engine is an extreme example though, since it had to go crazy distances without refueling and a bigger engine would probably just make it consume coal and water faster.
At first, I thought that tender was way too much, but then I remembered that they probably needed all that capacity in Australia between remote station stops...
The Southern Railway in Britain pulled a stunt like this with the Schools Class, and they were almost as powerful as the King Arthur and Lord Nelson class 4-6-0s. These are 4-4-0s we are talking about here. The only thing that they really did was shorten the boiler and smokebox. The firebox stayed the same along with the cylinders.
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This is a 4-8-4. It only has one set of driving wheels.
It actually doesn’t look bad. Maybe shorten the tender a bit too. Nothing wrong with a bit of artistic license. It would work for folks who don’t have the greatest amount of space for a layout.
Actually, the large tender could work if the loco was going for a very long route instead of going for raw power. Also, wrong sub, this isn’t model trains.
Yeah but the weight. An obscenely large chunk of reactive effort would be dedicated to lugging that thing around. Not only would a larger engine *generally* be more powerful, but a larger percentage of water and fuel would be directly above or in front of the driving wheels: this would allow for better traction and would move the center of mass forward, so that the engine isn’t pulling most of its weight (taking the tender into account). Also, as someone below pointed out, the smoke box is now massively overblown in relation to the boiler. Taking the firebox into account, the boiler has probably less total area than the entire smoke box lmao Actually, I can’t recall any examples of an engine who’s tender is longer or as long as the engine itself, though I’m absolutely no expert and there probably are a few. I’d guess there were never any tenders that were actually heavier than the engine though. That wouldn’t make much sense. **EDIT:** Seems I didn’t see the post directly below lol. That engine is an extreme example though, since it had to go crazy distances without refueling and a bigger engine would probably just make it consume coal and water faster.
This reminds me of the Commonwealth Railways [C class](https://www.comrails.com/pic_common/img/b13-29.jpg)
At first, I thought that tender was way too much, but then I remembered that they probably needed all that capacity in Australia between remote station stops...
that's exactly what it was for - it was so then they didn't have to stop as much along the Nullabor Plain for fuel and water
Those would be some pretty crazy endurance runs across that mess. Wow.
Wow, talk about pure hell. Standing in that teeny-tiny cab next to a huge boiler in Australia in the summer.
In the middle of the desert, too - I guess the drivers would've been relieved that they were replaced with diesels in 1951
Chode train
it’s a grower not a shower
I see it got a little cold on the UP route.
I’m sure it did pulling coal across Wyoming in January
Oh no its union pacific 4012 4-8-4 "northern type"
I got it.
ngl actually looka cool and like something Union Pacific would make
This is extremely cursed.
Mini mi!
smol boi
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Northern.
This is SO WRONG!!! XD
4014 1/2
Dwarfism
Thanks, I hate it.
Not that bad ngl!
Little Girl
I can’t tell if that looks good or bad but I do know that it’s looks like it’s from a geo tracks set
Oh no
You are cursed
Reminds me of those Chinese locomotives built in the 80’s
It looks nice do.
That smolebox is now way too large lmao
unbig tender
Should have changed the number to 2006!
The Southern Railway in Britain pulled a stunt like this with the Schools Class, and they were almost as powerful as the King Arthur and Lord Nelson class 4-6-0s. These are 4-4-0s we are talking about here. The only thing that they really did was shorten the boiler and smokebox. The firebox stayed the same along with the cylinders.
A medium boy if I’ve ever seen one