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Re: Weekend Update 1/1/23
« Reply #45 on: January 03, 2023, 03:35:51 PM »
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As a side note, the prototype is really an interesting steamer, a one of a kind.
It was built using a tank locomotive and parts of other steamers, eg. the tender etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR_18_201

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Re: Weekend Update 1/1/23
« Reply #46 on: January 03, 2023, 03:51:17 PM »
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As a side note, the prototype is really an interesting steamer, a one of a kind.
It was built using a tank locomotive and parts of other steamers, eg. the tender etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR_18_201

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Thanks Thomas.  The model's packaging includes a short write-up about it (not as many details as that web page).
I bought it because I liked its streamline looks, and the huge diameter drivers.  It is also a speed record holder, and it was  manufactured really late into steam era.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/1/23
« Reply #47 on: January 03, 2023, 04:03:03 PM »
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Created in 1960 and operated well into the 1970s it is quite a late steamer.

The Wiki entry is not completely correct though. As I understand it, it says this loco has the largest driving wheels with a diameter of 2300 mm. The class 05 has the same driving wheel diameter.

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Re: Weekend Update 1/1/23
« Reply #48 on: January 03, 2023, 06:17:12 PM »
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thanks Mike, the coupler was mounted when I bought it

Thanks John
I have a few of the Oriental Lmtd locos. Yours looks like the OL release as opposed to the later Key model.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/1/23
« Reply #49 on: January 03, 2023, 07:27:04 PM »
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Thanks John
I have a few of the Oriental Lmtd locos. Yours looks like the OL release as opposed to the later Key model.
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