Hi Susan.... I would love to have the high resolution photos and drawings of the Byers Cricket! What do I need to do? Will you send them as e-mail attachments, or on a CD, or......???
Thanks! Ron Brown e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jul 2, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Susan Parker wrote: > Dear All, > > I was recently successful in tracking down an original copy of the > 1896 > Engineering News and now have high resolution scans of the line > drawings > and more important of a builders photograph from the article on the > Byers industrial locomotive that the Cricket is based on. > > If anyone is interested please let me know. > > The 6000x4700 picture is a 2.4MB JPG > > The 5700x6800 gray scale drawing is a 374KB GIF > > I also have made small 800 pixel wide versions of the above. > > Maybe I have missed it but I have never seen the photograph before, > the > only illustration being the line cut advertisement from January 1896 > (which unfortunately was not present in the bound volume - Jan to > June). > > The picture is the classic 3/4 front view and is of the prototype > as it > differs a little in some details to the drawings (the text refers to > this "The front and back cross frames have been changed somewhat from > the form shown in the photograph, but..."). > > I have also started on a set of CAD drawings for a reasonably accurate > model in a larger scale and a two cylinder wobbler for O gauge > (which I > started with the information from the geared loco web site). > > For a little industrial locomotive I find it strangely attractive. > > Best wishes, > Susan. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SSLiveSteam mailing list > Send messages: [email protected] > Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/ > sslivesteam > Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
