tythatguy1312
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if you want a somewhat more feasible design that doesn't need complicated flexible steam pipes running through 2 of the bogies then fear not, for I have a Thompson Mallet too, which is also overpowered but it's less of a mechanical nightmare
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following that I went on a bit of a custom loco binge and I may have gotten a bit carried away
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so I remember this being inspired by a TOMY Murdoch model but I sketched up how a BR Standard 9f would look like as an 0-10-0, just for funsies. Admittedly this is a... very basic edit but still
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this would've probably worked very well for the heaviest passenger trains, imagine if the PRR built that instead of the T1
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I was thinking more "Maunsell style E2" but yeah that works too
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I've personally sometimes wondered what a Southern 0-6-0t would look like, considering the closest we actually got is a... controversial machine.
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alright so since we are seemingly almost completely out of ideas, and although I lack the photoshop skills, 3d modelling experience, a model, any physical modelling skills and really everything except the idea Class 07 with a central cab
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seems like that cab might be rather unpleasantly hot
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it wasn't, they did try to build a Mallet during World War 2, apparently a 2-6-8-0. Unfortunately a bomb hit it during construction, ending both it and the program
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I was just looking for pictures of an LMS Coronation in the US and I found, what I would describe, as the weirdest fictional design since Henry The Green Engine as built
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depending on the Material, it's either to Barrow, Manchester or beyond. all that's stated in the original story is that it goes "to other places far away" which is... annoyingly vague.
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The Flying Kipper is said to go well beyond NWR Metals in other materials, so yeah a fast goods loco with a tender would be necessary, maybe something like a 4-6-0. That is assuming the NWR couldn't just... swap locomotives at Vicarstown or Barrow but still.
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Honestly Sodor always seemed like a place that would breed... unique locomotives due to the fact that, as the island is hilly and somewhat sparsely populated, conditions unmatched by the UK
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this isn't a fictional loco but I may as well put in my two cents and call the LMS Garratt a 9F
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Ok can we get back on track (pun intended) because I have yet another debatably uninformed idea. What if Gresley had rebuilt the Ivatt Atlantics to their logical peak?
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Ok how did we go from "GWR King class Pacific" to "what caused the economic downfall of the UK after the Second World War"
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I've always suspected this to be a rather unique point. The limits of the UK's infrastructure limited train lengths for both freight and passenger trains, thus creating demand only for locomotives that could pull those trains, as the UK has always been... let's just say reluctant to upgrade infrastructure. So, by all accounts, by 1935 the UK had reached its practical limit in terms of locomotive size, thus leaving room only to improve designs of those sizes.
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I must admit what I had in mind was a method to allow the Kings to traverse the whole London-Penzance Mainline, rather than simply gunning it between London & Bristol. I also personally believe a 4-4-4 would have far insufficient adhesion for the heavy trains of the GWR, thus making a 4-6-2 or a 4-6-0 preferable for the work at hand.
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I've been kicking this idea around in my head for a while now but has anyone thought of a GWR King's boiler, firebox & Cylinders on the wheels and frames of The Great Bear? Seems like a good way to solve the King's high axle loading to me.
