>Thanks Guys and a Sweet Doll! I should have read these emails before I sent the last one! That article from the foot plate of the T1 was fabulous, my favorite tales are from the foot plate! Thanks David.
So with Gordon's knowledgeable comments adding to all the other theories I believe we all have a good idea why the front drivers slipped. So now I can step off the foot plate and sleep tonight instead of spinning my drivers!! Thanks Vickie-Marie for your encouragement. Love you sweetie! Geoff >It's good to see emails from 45mm.com, this list has been very >helpful to me in the past. Not knowing the throttle arrangement or >the location of the sanding tubes (or even if they used them on a >regular basis), I don't have any real guess as to why the front >would slip. I don't even know if it is a compound engine (but I >think not). I like Gary's supposition about wet rails, but I think I >read somewhere that the engines, due to their reduced driver/ >running gear weight and their cylinder design (among other things) >made them more powerful than most drivers were used to. > >Gary, does the Terror Trestle still exist? > >Dave > >-----Original Message----- >From: sslivesteam-boun...@postfix.45mm.com >[mailto:sslivesteam-boun...@postfix.45mm.com] On Behalf Of Geoff >Spenceley >Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 7:48 PM >To: Small-scale live steam discussions >Subject: Re: [SSLiveSteam] (no subject) > >>Greetings Al, > >Gee whizz! you, my friend are the only responder! I thought at least >Steve Shyvers would have had an idea on the "spinning drivers" that >he would have loved to chuck out in his scholarly manner! > >Are the SSLiveSteam group members busy attending their own >funerals, or sumtin?? > >So thanks for your contribution old chap- and Steve, Wake up!! > >Cheers, Watch the Juniper berries! > >Lonely Geoff. > > > >_______________________________________________ >SSLiveSteam mailing list >Send messages: SSLiveSteam@postfix.45mm.com >Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam >Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: SSLiveSteam@postfix.45mm.com Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
